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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
- Hard but lightweight ‘bio-metal’ material discovered in sea worm jaws
  Marine bristle worms have jaws made from a mix of proteins and metal ions that may constitute a whole new kind of material, with possible applications in engineering
- Why praying for rain appears to work – but only in some places
  In some parts of the world, the probability of rain rises with every day it doesn’t rain, and communities in these places are more likely to carry out rain-making rituals
- The US-China AI arms race has taken an unexpected turn
  Powerful artificial intelligence models built by Chinese companies have gone from inducing widespread panic to being met with a shrug of the shoulders – what changed?
- Maya mathematician’s name decoded alongside astronomical formula
  Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago
- Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time
  Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar found in raspberries has been spotted in a cosmic cloud nearly 27 light years away
Scientific American
- Prepare for dangerous air pollution in the Northeast, thanks to Minnesota wildfires
  
  Smoke from northern Minnesota wildfires may drift over the Great Lakes and Northeast this week, bringing hazardous levels of air pollution to major cities
- T. rex fossil named ‘Gus’ becomes the most expensive dinosaur sold at auction
  
  This massive dinosaur skeleton sold for more than $50.1 million on Tuesday
- Did scientists just create synthetic life?
  
  The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing
- ChatGPT just proved another 50-year-old math conjecture
  
  What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself
- Here's the deal with 'corn sweat'—it's not all actually corn's fault
  
  Corn has taken the heat for recent Midwest summer humidity—unjustly, according to corn experts
Science News
A new map traces the sky’s water highways
Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map reveals little-known pathways.

A quasar breaks the record for most distant supermassive black hole
The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the early universe.

Whether lefty or righty, practice makes the difference
Researchers looking for the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.

Meet the Milky Way’s puffiest planets
Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as cotton candy.

Pluto has landslides
New Horizons data reveal Pluto’s first six confirmed landslides along steep crater rims.

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