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Mitotype PCR genetic test results of bee specimens (feral and managed hives) are updated weekly.

Target goal of 1,000 hives to be tested in 2024.

New Scientist
- It’s about to get a lot harder to keep countries honest about climate change
  A row over when to publish crucial climate change assessments risks letting countries off the hook on emissions cuts
- Bottlenose whales may look after each other when they’re sick
  Northern bottlenose whales are more likely to stick together when individuals are poorly or emaciated
- Discovery of T. rex’s cousin upends our understanding of tyrannosaur evolution
  A dinosaur that is new to science has features of both subfamilies of the tyrannosaur group, complicating our understanding of how they evolved
- Error-correction record pushes quantum computers closer to usefulness
  Useful quantum computers will have to use many “logical qubits” as their computational building blocks, and researchers just broke the record for how reliable they can be
- El Niño is dramatically increasing sea levels – how bad could it get?
  El Niño has already raised sea levels in part of the eastern Pacific by 40 centimetres and as it continues to strengthen, there could be coastal flooding from Alaska to Chile
Scientific American
- Japan launches a probe to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos
  
  The Martian Moons Exploration mission will aim to bring back samples from Phobos
- Alarm grows over Russian satellite’s provocative approach to U.S.-owned satellite
  
  How close is too close for encounters between sensitive spacecraft orbiting Earth? With a mysterious approach to another satellite, Russia’s military may be trying to find out
- How what we see and hear feed together to help us understand emotions
  
  The emotions themselves may be more important than the senses we use to perceive them
- The first mission to sample Mars’s moons launches today
  
  For the first time ever, a spacecraft will travel all the way to the Mars system and return. But first, it has to get through the launch
- Biohackers say this supplement lets you drink coffee at night. No one knows if it’s safe
  
  Rutaecarpine is touted as a fix to rapidly flush caffeine out of the body, but it may be toxic when mixed with Tylenol
Science News
These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger
New videos offer a closer look at a rare and bizarre escape behavior in some Southeast Asian snakes.

Japan’s sample return mission to Phobos may also collect some Mars dust
Japan’s MMX mission will be the first to the moons of Mars and it aims to bring back precious rock samples — perhaps even indirectly from Mars.

Horned dinosaurs’ weapons evolved to handle the forces of combat
New simulations reveal which battle moves the skulls of horned dinosaurs could take — and which might have been a very bad idea.

Artemis II results show how much science people can do at the moon
We’ve studied the moon with robotic spacecraft for decades. What do human observers add? Artemis II’s first science results offer some answers.

Crossword: Time lines
Solve the crossword from our November 2026 issue, in which we cultivate an understanding of growth curves.

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