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

    • Pressure from individual particles measured for the first time
      A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures and could help find a mysterious kind of neutrino
    • Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we know little about it
      Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally beginning to investigate how romance changes in later life
    • Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools out of old bones
      An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools out of bone persisted even after the advent of metal-working
    • Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s
      At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback with as little as 1.5°C of global warming
    • Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
      When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 million cubic metres of rock fell into the fjord, causing a 5.4 magnitude seismic event  
  • Scientific American

    • The hantavirus cruise ship outbreak is a dangerous experiment

      The tragic and fatal outbreak of hantavirus onboard a luxury cruise ship highlights the gaps in research and treatments for the rare and mysterious infection—including how the virus spreads among people

    • MAHA voters support lower health care costs above vaccine safety and limitation of pesticides, poll finds

      A new KFF poll found that voters aligned with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement consider the cost of health care as their top policy priority

    • Could this fungus live on Mars? Maybe it already does

      An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

    • The return of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award likely won’t improve children’s health, experts say

      Researchers say that President Donald Trump’s resurrection of widely maligned fitness testing in schools is “half-baked” and unlikely to move the needle on youth physical activity alone

    • Gas prices are spiking. So why aren’t U.S. oil companies drilling more?

      As the U.S. and Iran fight for dominance in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. gas prices are continuing to rise—and production might not keep up

  • Science News

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    • A low-cost rotavirus test could save childrens’ lives in Nigeria
      Nigerian virologist Margaret Oluwatoyin Japhet has designed a rapid test that could diagnose rotavirus at a child’s bedside.
    • Neandertals used rhinoceros teeth as tools
      Finds at sites in Spain and France suggest that Neandertals used the teeth of ancient rhinos for heavy-duty fabrication.
    • Space junk falls back to Earth faster as sunspot numbers climb
      A new study links the sun's 11-year cycle to accelerated orbital loss, with debris falling faster once sunspot numbers near their cycle peak.
    • Singing mice puff up air sacs to make their sweet songs
      To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any other animal.
    • What to know about a rare hantavirus outbreak at sea
      Public health officials are racing to find out how the sometimes deadly hantavirus got aboard a cruise ship and if there has been human-to-human spread.
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