Toxic social media may be inevitable, ancient England was more diverse than you think, losing your Y chromosome might wreck your heart, and two bee viruses could quietly sabotage hives.

SOURCES

• Social media toxicity can't be fixed by changing the algorithms | New Scientist
• Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation | arxiv.org
• 1,300-year-old skeletons found in England had grandparents from sub-Saharan Africa, DNA studies reveal | Live Science
• Vanishing Y chromosomes seem to be driving heart disease in men | New Scientist
• Two sneaky viruses may be messing with honeybee flight | New Scientist

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