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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
- How worried should you be about microplastics?
  Microplastics have been found accumulating everywhere from our water to our body tissues, but many of the claims have come under fresh scrutiny. Chelsea Whyte cuts through the research to tell you whether you really need to worry
- Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months
  Taking psilocybin – the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms – eased symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder among people who did not respond to conventional treatments, and the effects lasted at least several months
- Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive
  Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a palm-sized possum with a bizarre, elongated finger
- Alzheimer’s may start with inflammation in the skin, lungs or gut
  The Alzheimer’s field is being turned on its head as mounting evidence points to the disease beginning outside the brain many years before symptoms start. This may mean we have to totally rethink how we approach preventing and treating the condition
- The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet
  An exceptionally flexible region of the spine enables falling cats to twist the front and back halves of their body sequentially to ensure a safe landing
Scientific American
- Life on Mars could reach Earth by riding asteroid impact debris, new study suggests
  
  New insights into a tiny, tough microbe have huge implications for the search for life beyond Earth
- See Death Valley covered in an ethereal blanket of wildflowers
  
  This year’s Death Valley flower bloom is the greatest since 2016, according to the U.S. National Park Service. See it for yourself
- IBM scientists unveil the first ever “half-Möbius” molecule, with the help of quantum computing
  
  A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip
- Heart attacks are killing more young people—and more women
  
  A new study finds that heart attack deaths in U.S. hospitals are rising in people aged 54 and below, signaling a shift in cardiovascular issues in younger ages
- Newly discovered ripples in spacetime put Einstein’s general relativity to the test
  
  A new catalog of gravitational waves more than doubles the known number of these spacetime ripples
Science News
A koala population’s rapid rebound may let it escape inbreeding’s perils
As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of regaining lost genetic variation.

This molecule puts a new twist on the Möbius strip
A molecule made of carbon and chlorine is half as twisty as the paper loops common in math classes.

Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds
Chickpeas produced seeds in simulated lunar soil, offering clues for future space farming.

A Titan collision may link Saturn’s tilt, its moon Hyperion and its rings
A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s inner moons into rings.

Hundreds of studies have missed how much the oceans are rising
A widely used method to calculate sea level rise may have missed up to a century of change, so the risks could hit home for millions sooner than thought.

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