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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
- Probiotic cream that ramps up heat production could prevent frostbite
  Tweaking our skin's microbiome via a probiotic cream could prevent frostbite and hypothermia in extreme environments
- Mathematician wins 2026 Abel prize for solving 60-year-old mystery
  Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together seemingly disparate mathematical fields
- Physicists create formula for how many times you can fold a crêpe
  When you fold a flexible material such as a pancake or a tortilla, its behaviour depends on a competition between gravity and elasticity
- Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time
  The Perseverance rover has found tiny crystals that seem to be rubies or sapphires inside pebbles on Mars, where they have never been seen before
- How worried should you be about ultra-processed foods?
  We are constantly told to watch out for the health risks of eating ultra-processed food, but should you be worried every time you sit down for a meal? Sam Wong takes a look at the evidence
Scientific American
- How the Project Hail Mary directors brought science to the big screen
  
  Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Miller talk about astrobiology, optimistic science fiction, heist films and handsome scientists
- Drug retatrutide helps people lower blood sugar and lose weight, clinical trial results show
  
  Retatrutide is among a new class of weight loss drugs being tested for their effectiveness
- The world's happiest countries report calls attention to youth well-being
  
  Gallup’s annual world happiness ranking for 2026 explores how the use of social media influences well-being
- Try these language puzzles from North America’s biggest linguistics competition
  
  For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation
- Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71
  
  The Mordell conjecture—now known as Faltings’s theorem—concerns the number of special points on a curve
Science News
Earth’s continental plates were moving 3.48 billion years ago
Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

A new study questions when people first reached South America
Data suggest people lived at Chile’s Monte Verde site thousands of years later than thought, challenging key “pre-Clovis” evidence. Not all agree.

How warming is shifting microbial worlds
Climate change is affecting microbes, and that has implications for all life on Earth.

A static electricity mystery comes to the surface
Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces

To make a ‘Snowball Earth,’ sci-fi moves fast. Geology is far slower
The Day After Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Snowball Earth: Such end-of-days visions of a frozen Earth are fantastical … but can contain a snowflake of truth.

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