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

    • SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks
      The environmental impact of SpaceX's planned gargantuan mega-constellation is still being grappled with, but the FCC isn’t required to study it
    • Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken
      The alvarezsaurs were thought to have evolved a smaller stature because of their diet of ants and termites, but a new fossil found in Argentina casts doubt on that theory
    • Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier
      The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous
    • AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
      Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
    • Loophole found that makes quantum cloning possible
      Duplicating the information held in quantum computers was thought to be impossible thanks to the no-cloning theorem, but researchers have now found a workaround
  • Scientific American

    • NASA astronaut Mike Fincke identified as having experienced the medical event on the ISS that triggered an evacuation

      This disclosure comes about a month after NASA made the decision to evacuate the four members of Crew-11 from the International Space Station

    • Many people don’t see mental images. The reason offers clues to consciousness

      People with aphantasia have no mental imagery—and they’re offering brain scientists a window into consciousness

    • Economist Larry Summers resigns from posts at Harvard after ties to Epstein spark scrutiny

      Former Harvard president Larry Summers will step back from his teaching and faculty positions at the end of the academic year

    • Heart disease in young women projected to rise sharply by 2050

      A new projection study estimates that nearly a third of women aged 22 to 44 will have been diagnosed with a cardiovascular disease by 2050

    • The surprising new physics of squeaky basketball shoes

      A new study explains why basketball shoes make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they rub against the hardwood. The ridges on their sole hold the key

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    • Climate change could threaten monarch mass migration
      Suitable milkweed habitat in Mexico may shift south, fracturing existing migration routes and possibly pushing some butterflies to stay put.
    • Metal pollution from a rocket reentry detected for the first time
      Direct detection of lithium from a SpaceX rocket reentry offers new evidence that metal pollution from space debris could threaten the ozone layer.
    • Here’s why sneakers squeak on the basketball court
      Tiny, repeating detachments between sole and floor — thousands of times a second — create the distinctive squeak heard on the court, data show.
    • Keeping a beat wins caterpillars friends in low places
      Finding a caterpillar with rhythm was “mind-blowing,” suggesting it might be a more widespread part of animal communication than thought.
    • An African monkey ate a rope squirrel and came down with mpox
      Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty mangabeys in Côte d’Ivoire.
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