What is the surprising way football can help with health? How can we reach our climate goals? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of June 11-17 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Did you know that if the World Cup trophy was solid gold it would be too heavy to lift? Maybe you don't like football - if so we've got some interesting articles for you about how the universe works. These subjects and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

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• The chemistry of the World Cup by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• World Cup Ban on Radioactive Chemicals Frustrates Russian Biochemistry Labs by Quirin Schiermeier at Nature
• Football is a winning treatment for elderly people with prediabeties by Magni Mohr at ScienceNordic
• Does Depression Accelerate Aging? by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
• Raw is risky: Meghan Markle had to give up eating favourite food after marrying Harry by Doug Powell at Barfblog
• After a decade, new Gardasil ad campaign gets it (mostly) right by Ashley Andreou at STAT
• ASCO endorses the integration of quackery into breast cancer care by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
• Gene therapy makes inroads to help patients - and clear its name by Jovana Drinjakovic at Signals
• This Is Why Physicists Think String Theory Might Be Our ‘Theory Of Everything’ by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang
• The Standard Model (of Physics) at 50 by Yvette Cendes at Scientific American
• In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics by Emily McConover at Science News 
• Artificial intelligence can predict how you’ll look decades from now by Matthew Hutson at Science
• Species recognition shifts into auto with neural networks by Sue Palminteri at Mongabay
• Crop pollination depends on wild AND managed pollinators by Manu Saunders at Ecology is not a dirty word
• Climate change could be killing Africa’s giant baobabs by John Cannon at Mongabay
• Cities Look to "Virtual Power" to Reach Climate Goals by Benjamin Storrow at Scientific American
• Alien Anthropocene: How Would Other Worlds Battle Climate Change? by Lee Billings at Scientific American
• Could cyanobacteria terraform Mars? by Andrew Masterson at Cosmos Magazine
• Review needs a revision by Thomas Wagenknecht at Elephant in the Lab
• Sparking Interest in STEM Careers in Middle School by Amy Cowen at Science Buddies

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Can we resurrect dinosaurs? How can we use ocean plastic waste? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of June 4-10 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

As Jurassic World explores the return of dinosaurs that had no problems in killing their prey, could humans in modern society face killing for food too? These subjects and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

Resurrecting dinosaurs might not be so easy.

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• Jurassic World: Can We Really Resurrect a Dinosaur? by Darren Griffin and Rebecca O'Connor at The Conversation
• “Life finds a way”: What Jurassic World teaches us about modern wildlife by Roisin Conn at Seeking Science
• Tardigrade mysteries by Jon Farrow at The Thoughtful Pharoah
• ‘I’m only going to eat animals I kill myself’: Q&A with Louise Gray, author of ‘The Ethical Carnivore’ by Joshua Parfitt at Mongabay
• Did Han Solo Use A Trick Of Einstein’s Relativity To Make The Kessel Run? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• Evidence Builds for a New Kind of Neutrino by Clara Moskowitz at Scientific American
• Gravitational Waves Were Used To Look Inside Neutron Stars by Alfredo Carpineti at The Astroholic
• Finally, scientists have found intriguing organic molecules on Mars by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Nanodiamonds are forever by Sue Vorenberg at Argonne National Laboratory 
• Political Emotions. The Role of Affect in Social Movements by Katja May at Imperfect Cognitions
• "The Love of Neuroscience" and the Neuroscience of Love by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• California legislation will require polyester clothing to have a microfiber pollution label at Microfiber Pollution Project
• Reminder: Plastic Doesn’t Go in the Compost Bin by Michael Allen at Hakai Magazine
• The Island Paradise Where the Roads Are Made of Plastic by Monica Pelliccia at Oceans Deeply 
• The cancer cell next door by Maya Emmons-Bell at Equilibria
• Cancer: a many headed beast by Emily Harrison at OncoBites
• Cancer Vaccines: Educating Your Immune System since the 1800s by Sara Musetti at OncoBites
• Singapore could become the second country to legalize mitochondrial replacement therapy  by Sandy Ong at Science
• Intestinal bacteria can work better than antibiotics by Nancy Bazilchuk and Ingrid Spilde at ScienceNordic
• From the duh files: Human behavior and corporate culture impact on hygiene, food safety by Doug Powell at Barfblog
• Here are the data and code for that study of Puerto Rico deaths by Andrew Gelman at - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Can penguins love? What could transform our view of physics? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 28-June 3 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Space is amazing - but getting off Earth is a big challenge, while staying on a warming planet is no picnic either. These subjects and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

Love among penguins?
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• The Penguin That Loved Too Much by Alex Ronan at Topic
• We Have Unrealistic Beauty Standards for Coral, Too by Gemma Conroy at Hakai Magazine
• Oil Spill Recorded By Microscopic Seafloor Organisms by Patrick T. Schwing at Science Trends
• A Glioblastoma Vaccine? Not Yet. by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
• The Rise and Fall and Rise of Genetic Memory by James Howe at NeuWrite San Diego
• Monkey study bolsters case for brain hormone's role in autism by Nicholette Zeliadt at Spectrum
• The Psychological Challenges of Just Getting to Mars by Brian Gallagher at Nautilus  
• Scientists unlock the secrets of Pluto’s methane dunes by Phil Dooley at Cosmos
• ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope Captures Tarantula Nebula at Sci-News.com
• Life returned to crater of Cretaceous asteroid in the blink of an eye by Scott K. Johnson at Ars Technica
• Dig in to the Physics of Donuts for National Donut Day! by Amanda Babcock at Physics Buzz!
• MiniBooNE by John Baez at Azimuth
• Podcast of the week: Can We Predict Earthquakes At All? by Sabrina Stierwalt at Scientific American/Quick and Dirty Tips
• Does global warming make tropical cyclones stronger? by Stefan Rahmstorf, Kerry Emanuel, Mike Mann and Jim Kossin at RealClimate
• What Has Changed—and What Has Not—Since Paris Withdrawal Announcement by Zack Colman at Scientific American
• Missing Paris Climate Goals Could Cost Trillions by Prachi Patel at Anthropocene
• The science of science careers: never too late to consider options by Gaia Cantelli at ACSB Post
• "Smart people problems." This is NOT how we should be talking about PhD mental health by Raffi Parker at Medium
• Anion Exchange Membrane Crosslinked In The Easiest Way Exhibits High Alkaline Stability by Md. Masem Hossain, Zhengjin Yang, and Tongwen Xu at Science Trends 
• Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible at Microsoft

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How great an exception is the child-rescuing climber? Where might we find alien life? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 21-May 27 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

The amazing effort of Mamoudou Gassama to rescue a toddler hanging from a balcony is truly awe-inspiring - but maybe not as unusual as you might think. However it does overshadow otherwise amazing things, like the brain's complexity and the creation of weird-looking moons. Yet these subjects and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

• Strangers are more likely to come to your help in a racially diverse neighbourhood by Alex Fradera at British Psychological Society Research Digest

👇 Undocumented migrant from Mali, Mamoudou Gassama, risked his life and his future in France to rescue a child he did not know. 




French president Macron, just offered himthe French citizenship and a job with the fire brigade. pic.twitter.com/KUVbB7kAOy




— Xavi Ruiz 🎗 (@xruiztru) May 28, 2018

• Seafood-lovers have more sex and take less time to get pregnant at New Scientist 
• Egg Consumption Could Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Study Says at Sci-News.com
• Podcast of the week: Classic Neanderthal Styling by Ed Brown, Penny Dumsday and Carolyn de Graaf at Science On Top
• Humanity’s 3 Hopes For Finding Alien Life by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• Here's Why Saturn's Inner Moons Are Shaped Like Ravioli and Potatoes by Charles Q Choi at Space.com
• The chemistry behind how dishwashers clean by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest

• Why Is Ice Slippery? by Meredith Fore at Live Science
• Imaging approaches expand view into brain's complexity by Marissa Fessenden at Spectrum
• Why We Don't Remember Early Childhood? by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at BrainBlogger
• ‘It’s a toxic place.’ How the online world of white nationalists distorts population genetics by Michael Price at Science
• Q+A: How Will Europe’s New Data Privacy Law Change Your Relationship With The Internet? by Britt Faulstick at Drexel News Blog
• Climate mitigation pledges leave half of world’s insects at risk by Sarah deWeerdt at Anthropocene
• Researchers propose framework for designing PES programs that better deliver socioeconomic benefits by Mike Gaworecki at Mongabay
• Synthetic Crab Blood is Good for the Birds by Lindsey Konkel at Hakai Magazine 

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Can memories be transferred? Is there a loneliness epidemic? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 14-May 20 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Ebola is rearing its head again, but World Health Organization experts say it's not yet a global emergency, while we also now have a vaccine ready to fight it with. These subjects and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

An Aplysia sea slug (or sea hare), the species which
scientists claim to have transferred memories between
members of.
Credit: Géry Parent, used via Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0 licence.

• Researchers claim to have transferred a memory between two sea slugs by John Timmer at Ars Technica
• It's That Dress Again, but Now for Your Ears by Stephen L. Macknik at Illusion Chasers
• The inside of a proton endures more pressure than anything else we’ve seen by Emily McConover at Science News
• How to bend and stretch a diamond by David L. Chandler at MIT News
• The Top Five Mysteries of the Human Gut Microbiome by Kristina Campbell at leapsmag
• Sewage science: Are bacteria just the tip of the fatberg? by Laura Cox at Microbe Post
• How smaller drinks could reduce the UK’s alcohol consumption by Inge Kersbergen at Sifting the Evidence
• Podcast of the week: The immune system unleashed by Sara Roncero-Menendez, presented by Brian Stallard and Andrea Alfano, with Douglas Fearon, at Base Pairs
• FDA 'names and shames' generic-blocking pharma companies by Phil Taylor at PMLive
• A Canadian Journalist Calls Out Pediatric Chiropractic, and a Chiropractor Responds by Clay Jones at Science-Based Medicine
• Schizophrenia more prevalent away from green spaces by Marie Barse at ScienceNordic
• No, there is no epidemic of loneliness. (Or, Dog Bites Man: David Brooks runs another column based on fake stats) by Andrew Gelman at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• Ebola Vaccine, four decades in the making by Justin Varholick and Amanda Dettmer at Speaking of Research
• Ebola outbreak is alarming, but falls short of global emergency, panel says by Helen Branswell at STAT
• An opioid shortage? It’s real and could harm cancer patients by Tara Soumerai at STAT
• Down syndrome testing shouldn’t tilt parents toward pregnancy termination by Chris Kaposy at STAT
• Tricks, Lies and Videotape: The Dirty Tactics of the Anti Choice Side by Taryn de Vere at Headstuff
• Hawaii Volcano Eruption: What You Need To Know by Kate Broome at Science Trends 
• Conservation Conundrum: Is Focusing on a Single Species a Good Strategy? by Richard Conniff at Yale Environment 360
• Europe Fighting it Out in the Courts over Air Pollution by Gabriel de Silva at On a Clear Day
• That NASA climate science program Trump axed? House lawmakers just moved to restore it by Jeffrey Mervis at Science
• How My PhD Training is Empowering Me by Teresa Ambrosio at Stories in Science
• I've Paid $18,000 To A $24,000 Student Loan, & I Still Owe $24,000 by Kaitlyn Cawley at Bustle
• What the Teacher Strikes Can Teach Students About the History of the Labor Movement by Tanner Higgin at MindShift

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Could a hangover cure finally be on the way? What is time? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 7-May 13 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

We worry about the environment - but in Sumatra and the Antarctic we've had some wins, and gene editing, psychology, and space offer potential ways out - or possibly just new problems. These subjects and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

Could we avoid feeling like this if we drink too much?
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• A hangover pill? Tests on drunk mice show promise by Yunfeng Lu at The Conversation
• She swallowed a mouse by Thomas Morris
• Experimental vaccine to be used against Ebola outbreak in the DRC by Helen Branswell at STAT 
• Mini-antibodies discovered in sharks and camels could lead to drugs for cancer and other diseases by Mitch Leslie at Science
• Animal tests surge under new U.S. chemical safety law by Vanessa Zainzinger at Science
• How Augmented reality is disrupting healthcare by Jan van den Burg at PM Live
• Fasting May Regenerate Stem Cells In Humans, Study Finds by Mohendra Shiwnarain at Science Trends
• 2050 – A world without plastics by Mark Lorch at Chemistry Blog
• Science Begins To Look To Gene-Editing Tools Like CRISPR To Save Coral Reefs by Eric Mack at Forbes
• How Kilauea's Lava Invades Neighborhoods by Wendell Duffield at Scientific American
• Sumatran community grows crops, aids conservation through ‘village forests’ by Loren Bell at Mongabay
• South Georgia declared ‘rat-free’ in largest-ever rodent eradication program by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
• Can Social Psychology save the Earth? | Psychology and Climate Change by Rachel Tobin at Headstuff
• Mining in Space Could Lead to Conflicts on Earth by Ramin Skibba at Nautilus
• What time is it, and why? by Jon M. Butterworth at Life and Physics
• A celebration of curiosity for Feynman’s 100th birthday by Tom Siegfried at Science News
• The Dangerous Connection Between Humiliation and Violence by Suzanne Phillips at PsychCentral
• Life beyond the Laboratory Bench by Direna A. Curbelo Ushma Neill and Allison Mayle at Scientific American Voices

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What's the latest theory on consciousness? Can dogs understand us? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 30-May 6 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

While we are learning more about how the moist warmth of a sauna is good for us, we have also discovered that the fact we live in cold climates seems to have given humans migraines. Also: contact lenses that turn eyes into lasers! Yes, really! These subjects and many other topics are among ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

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  Sweat out those toxins!
  Credit: Visit Lakeland used via Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0 licence

  Sauna Bathing Reduces Risk of Stroke, New Study Shows at Sci-News.com
• How is it that in 2018 Stanislaw Burzynski is still preying on desperate cancer patients? (Update) by Orac at Respectful Insolence
• Cancer Sequencing Hype And Reality by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result by Jessica Hamzelou at New Scientist
• Brains of men with autism have some ‘female’ patterns by Rachel Zamzow at Spectrum
• Wearable device accurately scans brains in moving people by Nicole Wetsman at Spectrum 
• On caring for suicidal patients: A psychiatrist reflects by Jennifer Huber at Stanford Medicine
• The 100 Billion Dollar-Euro Question: Is There A Placebo Effect In Medicine Outside Drug Trials? by Paul Enck and Sibylle Klosterhalfen at Science Trends
• Podcast: What Does Your Dog Really Think About You? by Alexa Lim and Gregory Berns at Science Friday
• Podcast: Echochambers, Organic Solar Cells, Self-Cleaning Coating, Who's That Noisy by Steven Novella, Jay Novella, Bob Novella, Evan Bernstein and Cara Santa Maria at Skeptics Guide to the Universe
• EU Decides To Ban Major Insecticides That Harm Bees by Daniel Nelson at Science Trends
• An endangered animal thrives in a novel ecosystem by Brandon Keim at Anthropocene
• Brazilian Salamanders: Rare, Beautiful and Endangered by Pedro Peloso at National Geographic Wildlife Blog
• Warmer winters increasing risk of avalanches in the Himalayas, studies find by Neha Jain at Mongabay
• Australia to invest $379 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef  by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
• Friends to Foes: When a Symbiont Becomes a Parasite by Osama Alian at Sciworthy
• The Birds that Live with Lava by Erin McKittrick at Hakai Magazine
• The Intertidal Architects of the Coast by Amorina Kingdon at Hakai Magazine
• Microfluidics from LEGO bricks by Jennifer Chu at MIT News
• Scottish Scientists Just Made a Contact Lens That Lets You Shoot Lasers from Your Eyes by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• The Most Important Equation In The Universe by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• Astronomers Spot Helium on Exoplanet for First Time by Alexandra Witze at Nature
• A Super-Simple, Non-Quantum Theory of Eternal Consciousness by John Horgan at Scientific American 
• Federal appeals court hears CRISPR patent dispute by Jon Cohen at Science
• Building Thinking Skills to Help Students Access Their Best Work by Katrina Schwartz at Mindshift
• "We continuously increased the number of animals until statistical significance was reached to support our conclusions" . . . I think this is not so bad, actually! by Andrew Gelman at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
• Good Intentions Do Not Always Mean Good Policy by Scott Fridkin at Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention 

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