What's the best time to exercise? Which year had 355 days? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 17-23 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover how penicillin antibiotics actually work and meet the nuisance species that turned out to be tasty. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• How Do Penicillins Actually Work? by Derek Lowe at Science

We now know more about how penicillin
antibiotics kill bacteria
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• COVID-19 Antiviral Therapies: What Are the New Drugs, and How Do They Work? by Ken Doyle at Promega Corporation
• Bacteria that live on plant roots are important for farming by Catherine V Batchelder at Sciworthy
• Your gut bacteria are little drug depots by Lieselotte Peeters at MicroBites 
• The Year That Only Had 355 Days by Chad Orzel at Forbes 
• When Is the Best Time to Exercise? by Gretchen Reynolds for The New York Times 
• Conflicting health information can compromise our attention by Emily Reynolds at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Are Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons Any Smarter than the Average Person by Benjamin Plackett at Discover Magazine
• Rethinking the origins of neurons: Q&A with Tomasz Nowakowski by Lauren Schenkman at Spectrum
• FDA cites hair-based autism diagnostic aid as ‘breakthrough’ by Laura Dattaro at Spectrum
• Got an Invasive Army of Crayfish Clones? Try Eating Them by Kate Connolly at Wired
• Method of the Year 2021: Protein structure prediction at Nature Methods
• More Than 330,000 Pacifiers Recalled Over Choking Hazard by Isabella Grullón Paz for The New York Times

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Nose or throat, which is best for coronavirus tests? What causes multiple sclerosis? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 10-16 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover what colour an object of infinite temperature would be, and learn about the world's tiniest antenna. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• World’s tiniest antenna is made from DNA by Tibi Puiu at ZME Science

What do you use a nanoantenna for? Find out at the link above! 
Image credit: Caitlin Monney/University of Montreal

• How can ant and termite queens live so long? By Tim Vernimmen at Knowable Magazine 
• Can Seagrass Help Reduce Microplastic Pollution? by Lucy Wust at Jumble Snail
• The Color of Infinite Temperature by John Carlos Baez at Azimuth 
• Multiple Sclerosis Causality by Derek Lowe at Science 
• Pregnant People Are Still Not Getting Vaccinated Against Covid by Grace Browne at Wired
• For Coronavirus Testing, the Nose May Not Always Be Best by Emily Anthes for The New York Times
• People behave more sadistically when they’re bored by Emma Young at BPS Research Digest
• The ‘surprisingly simple’ arithmetic of smell at Science Daily 
• Why do we forget? New theory proposes 'forgetting' is actually a form of learning at Science Daily 
• Neuron-specific virus overcomes barriers to brain-related gene therapy by Holly Barker at Spectrum
• Community Newsletter: Making MRIs more comfortable for autistic people, long-term potentiation and learning by Chelsey B Coombs at Spectrum

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What do the latest beautiful images of the Flame nebula show? What is 'flurona'? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 3-9 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, find out the problem with climate models predicting extreme weather and an idea to save tropical forests. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• Constellation Orion on Fire! New Image Shows Bright Flame Nebula by Ron Jefferson for The Science Times

The Flame Nebula puts on a radio show Credit: ESO/Th. Stanke & ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit.

• Can Synthetic Palm Oil Help Save the World’s Tropical Forests? by James Dinneen for Wired
• The Great Bear Rainforest’s Great Big Whales by Larry Pynn at Hakai magazine
• Do Climate Models predict Extreme Weather? by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction 
• Top autism-linked gene boosts DNA accessibility during development by Angie Voyles Askham at Spectrum
• Of Terms in Biology: The Polony Method by Christoph Weigel at Small Things Considered 
• Good and Not So Good News about Long COVID at Mike The Mad Biologist
• Making Paxlovid by Derek Lowe at Science
• Can You Get the Flu and Covid at the Same Time? by Amelia Nierenberg for The New York Times

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How do bubbles make fizzy wine so good? What is the unlikely anti-hero of long covid? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of December 20 2021-January 2 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

Welcome to 2022! In the festive edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, find out a surprising upside of the pandemic and why exactly December 21st is the shortest day of the year. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• Champagne Bubbles: The Science by Nicola Kim Jones at Knowable Magazine
• Why Is December 21 The Shortest Day Of The Year? by Chad Orzel at Forbes 
• Surprise! The Pandemic Has Made People More Science Literate by Max G. Levy for Wired 
• An Unlikely Anti-Hero: The role of autoantibodies in long COVID by Kara Ash at Immunobites 
• Vitamin D to protect from SARS-CoV-2 infection? by Marta Irigoyen Mapping Ignorance 
• NASA's Webb telescope takes flight-a Christmas gift to astronomers everywhere by Dan Clery at Science
• Physicists Create New Isotope of Magnesium at Sci-News.com
• The year in chemistry: 2021’s biggest chemistry stories by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest

Exciting chemical developments that could affect us all.
Copyright Andy Brunning/Compound Interest 2021,
used under Creative Commons CC BY NC NC licence.  

• Might microbes mine the Moon and Mars? by Mason Woodard at Sciworthy 
• Uncovering the Regenerative Capacity of Araneus diadematus by Georgia Henry at The Node
• Asian Bird Lost? Heaviest Eagle on Earth Spotted in North America, 5,000 Miles Away from Home by Marie Morales at The Science Times
• California Academy of Sciences describes three new Philippine species in 2021 by Mikael Angelo Francisco at FlipScience
• Behold, the Deepest-Dwelling Squid Known to Science by Chris Baraniuk at Hakai Magazine
• How Neurons Work? Neuroscience Model of Hebbian Theory Shows Neuronal Circuits Working Like Wires by Margaret Davis for The Science Times

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Can your gravitational pull affect your pool game? Does superdeterminism kill free will? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of December 13-19 2021 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best and brightest from the world of science news, find out the latest on the omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 and what 'zombie garbage' is. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• Omicron Update by Derek Lowe at Science
• Can Your Gravitational Pull Affect Your Game of Pool? by Rhett Allain for Wired

Ball games are all about physics - including gravity!

Photo by Nils Johan Gabrielsen on Unsplash

• Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or Does It Kill Free Will and Destroy Science? by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction
• The Future Is Full of Zombie Garbage by Michael Allen for Hakai Magazine
• New Source of Organic Phosphorus Identified, Could Play Vital Role in Phytoplankton and Microalgae Growth by Ron Jefferson for The Science Times 

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