ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 15-21 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Do women really show their emotions more than men?  by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Shared genetic pathways underlie autism, attention deficit by Bahar Ghoulipour at Spectrum
• Genomes on-line and the Health of Privacy by Effy Vayena and Alessandro Blasimme at Bill of Health
• A classic quantum test could reveal the limits of the human mind by Anil Ananthaswamy at New Scientist
• 5 Reasons why the 21st century will be the best one ever for astrophysics by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• Hydrothermal vents and the origins of life by Rachel Brazil at Chemistry World
• Old Dog, New Dog: Genetic Map Tracks The Evolution Of Man’s Best Friend by GrrlScientist
• News From Prairie Dog Town by Edmund Blari Bolles at Babel's Dawn
• Tiny Zombie Worms Are the Beavers of the Deep by Sarah Puschmann at Hakai Magazine
• Can We Really Eat Invasive Species into Submission? by Michael Snyder at Scientific American
• ‘Exercise pill’ turns couch potato mice into marathoners by Laura Beil at ScienceNews
• Health damage by air pollution prevented by food supplements? by Eliška Kosová at The GIST 
• 35 Years Of American Deaths by Ella Koeze at FiveThirtyEight
• How Satellite Images Can Confirm Human Rights Abuses by Dina Fine Maron at Scientific American 
• What Indigenous Cultures Can Teach Us About Managing Arctic Change by Emily Gertz at Arctic Deeply
• Why Do We Invent Historical Roots For Modern Science? by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• On the primacy of doubt in an age of illusory certainty by Ash Jogakelar at The Curious Wavefunction

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 8-14 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• What if We Discovered an Alien Civilization Less Advanced Than Our Own? by Corey S. Powell at Out There
• Astronomers Find Water and Weird Clouds on Extrasolar "Warm Neptune" by Mike Wall at Scientific American
• 3.5-billion-year-old fossils hint life evolved in pond, not sea by Alice Klein at New Scientist
• 4 Billion Year Old 'Fossil' Genes May Be Our Secret Weapon Against Infection by Sheryl Wood at Invisiverse
• Metaphors in science: How should we talk about genes? by Rose Hendricks
• Can a good sense of humour protect you from stress? by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• How We Hear (or, An Introduction to Fourier Analysis) at Something Marvelous
• Vaccines, Autism, and Retraction by Neuroskeptic at Discover
• Trading beef for insects—or even chicken—would save a third of arable land by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene
• See how much sugar is packed into 'healthy' food by Sara Chodosh at Popular Science
• Platinum: the almighty cancer killer! by Kayla Matz at SEE: Science for Each and Everyone
• Searching for the keys to immunotherapy success in the tumor microenvironment by John Easton at Science Life
• Gut bacteria linked to stroke by E J Smyth at Sciencemed
• Female mannequins aren't just skinny, they're emaciated by Eric Robinson at Sifting the Evidence
• How Oats Could Save Iowa’s Farmers (and Fight Pollution) by Karen Stillerman at Union of Concerned Scientists
• Can Meadows Rescue the Planet from CO2? by Jane Braxton Little at Scientific American
• These Very Hungry Caterpillars Can Eat Your Plastic Trash by GrrlScientist
• Macro-litter pollution: Plastic shopping bags a risk for marine mammals at The Blue Reporters
• Why Are Bees Disappearing? by Arpit Sharma at Sciencepalooza
• How beekeepers help deadly parasites thrive by Andrew Masterson at Cosmos Magazine
• A Reddit Science Q&A on medical ethnobotany at eScienceCommons
• Rational Arguments for God? by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Preservar la fertilidad entre los 25 y los 35 años aumenta las tasas de éxito at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología/Amazings

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 1-7 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• After a Near Sub-2 Marathon, What’s Next? by Alex Hutchinson at Runner's World
• You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - by Matthew Inman at The Oatmeal 
• What’s the largest planet in the Universe? and  How to prove Einstein’s relativity for less than $100 by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• Images of the Earth at night shine a light on developments across the planet by Jessica Snir at Cosmos Magazine
• How Virtual Reality Could Break America’s Opioid Addiction by Jo Marchant at Mosaic
• Man dreams in colour for first time during cancer radiotherapy by Alice Klein at New Scientist
• Fresh evidence of the power of fig trees to sustain wildlife and restore lost forests by Mike Shanahan at Under the Banyan
Relatively rare tropical trees all agree: avoiding the ‘rain of death’ seems like a good call by Kelle Freel at The Molecular Ecologist
• How does carbon dioxide cause global warming? at A Tang of Science
• Urban Birds Sing Shorter Songs When Traffic Is Loud by GrrlScientist 
• DNA fingerprinting reveals how malaria hides from the immune system by John Easton at ScienceLife
• Scientists Surprised to Find No Two Neurons Are Genetically Alike by Simon Makin at Scientific American
• Webinar: Gender bias in academic publishing by Christian Defeo at Mendeley Blog
• Reproducible practices are the future for early career researchers by Dorothy Bishop at BishopBlog
• If Nautilus is so good, why is it doing so bad? by Vasudevan Mukunth at edmx

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 24-30 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Speed of poop: Big or small, mammals drop a deuce in ~12 secs, study finds by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• Is Eating Late Bad for Your Heart? by Monica Reinagel at Scientific American
• Fasting against diabetes by Rosa García-Verdugo at Mapping Ignorance
• Is screen time a risk factor for ADHD?  by Paul Whiteley at Questioning Answers 
• 60 Years of Starstuff by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• The Crazy Scale of Human Carbon Emission by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• Sixty-four years later: How Watson and Crick did it by Ash Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
• Who’s Who on Science Twitter and Who Counts? by Hilda Bastian at Absolutely Maybe
• How a dolphin eats an octopus without dying by Sarah Zielinski at Wild Things
• Detoxing the Ocean by Michael Allen at Hakai Magazine
• Plants can hear water. Could noise pollution interfere? by Brandon Keim at Anthropocene
• Fundamental Theorems of Evolution by Brad Duthie at Phylo-Eco-Geo-Evo Journal Club
• Mapping the canine genome reveals origin of dog breeds by Andrew Masterson at Cosmos
• Cyber Security for the Internet of Things Is Crucial by Megan Ray Nichols at Schooled By Science
• Preprint server bioRxiv gets boost from Facebook billionaire by Erica Check Hayden at Spectrum 
• What children seeking asylum want adults to know by Nancy Bazilchuk at ScienceNordic
• Let Them Make My Cake: Exporting Burden, Importing Convenience in the Externalization Society by Jalees Rehman at The Next Regeneration
• Trump appoints Charmaine Yoest, our index Aunt Lydia, to Health and Human Services by Jen Gunter
• ¿Hay diferencias en la composición de un producto transgénico y uno convencional? by David Castro at Expresión Genética

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 17-23 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Why March for Science? Because when it is attacked, only the elite benefit by Lucky Tran at The Guardian
• Why we should March for Science by Ali and Jessica Amies at On Circulation
• Arctic Sea Ice Faces a Threat From Below by Gloria Dickie at Arctic Deeply
• Svalbard’s Snow Crabs: a Pincered Proxy for Arctic Oil by Glen Jeffries at Arctic Deeply
• Iridium – An Amazingly Useful Element, but at What Cost? by Amanda Morris at Green Chemistry: The Nexus Blog 
• Challenges of Transitioning to Sustainable Urban Infrastructure in the Amazon Delta and Estuary by Andressa Mansur and Eduardo Brondizio at The Nature of Cities 
• A Crisp(r) Explanation of Biology’s Coolest New Tool by Caroline Sferrazza at Neuwrite San Diego
• Music for the Mind: Neurological Disorders and Music Therapy by Katie B at On Psychology and Neuroscience
• New meta-analysis undermines the myth that negative emotions can cause cancer by Tomasz Witkowski at The British Psychological Society Research Digest
• 10 Ways That Running Changes Your Mind and Brain by Christian Jarrett at The British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Decision Fatigue: Does it Help to Wear the Same Clothes Every Day? by John M. Grohol at World of Psychology
• Some Brain Science Hype by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• The Brain Boasts Its Own Social Network by Mo Costandi at Scientific American
• TNT-Detecting Bacteria Could Illuminate Landmines by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• The future of energy isn’t fossil fuels or renewables, it’s nuclear fusion by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• The five best exoplanets in the galaxy to check for alien life by Leah Crane at New Scientist
• The Hubble Space Telescope zooms in on the largest planet in the solar system at Cosmos Magazine
• What makes a physician become an antivaxer? by Orac at Respectful Insolence
• What Happens If You Have Too Much Calcium? by Bruce B. Vanderburg at Reliawire

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 10-16 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• New Signs of an Environment Favorable for Life on Saturn’s Enceladus by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• How much gold is in the James Webb Space Telescope? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• Our Ability to Keep 'em Guessing Peaks around Age 25 by Jordana Cepelewicz at Scientific American
• How many hours of sleep do you actually need? by Claire Maldarelli at Popular Science
• Can your gut give you depression? by Rosie Porter at All That is Neuro
• Some “light bulb moments” are controlled by dimmers, not switches by Zen Faulkes at NeuroDojo
• Scientists identify parts of brain involved in dreaming by Nicola Davis at The Guardian
• New study shows worrisome signs for Greenland ice by John Abraham at Skeptical Science
• Mass Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for the Second Year in a Row by Brian Kahn at NRDC OnEarth
• In complex palm industry, “certified sustainable” falls short by Barbara Fraser at Forests News
• CRISPR could be used to develop precise diagnostic tests by Sharon Begley at STAT News
• Researchers uncover the structure of anti-TB drug target, and identify a new weapon against the deadly disease by Luc Bourne 
• Early Treatment with Vaccine Could Slow Precancerous HPV and How Diet, Gut Bacteria and Time Work Together to Form Your Potbelly by Sheryl Wood at Invisiverse
• Making Vanillin - Three production routes and their chemistry at Food Crumbles
• What Makes a Species? And Why it Matters. by David W. Shaw
• Efficiency At What Cost? by Mariah-Rose Marie M at Free Radicals
• La base neuroanatómica del perdón at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología/Amazings

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections April 3-9 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Citizen Scientists Spot Candidates for Planet Nine by Mike Wall at Scientific American
• 5 vital lessons scientists learn that can better everyone’s life and Hey Shaq? Here’s how you can figure out the Earth is round for yourself by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
• Forensic Hair Analysis Has A Long Road Back To Courtroom Glory by Carmen Drahl at Forbes
• Meet the biochemist who wants to save the world by making the perfect meat-free burger by Laurie Zoloth at Cosmos Magazine
• New rice fights off drought by Adam Phillips at It Ain't Magic
• 3 Big Myths about Modern Agriculture by David R Montgomery at Scientific American
• Japanese babies are upending the world of linguistics, one mora at a time by Amanda Alvarez at Neurographic
• Can Babies Hear Color? by Melissa J Glenn at On Psychology and Neuroscience
• Inside Arctic Ice Lies a Frozen Rainforest of Microorganisms by Rhiannon Russell at Arctic Deeply
• Big Promises From a Big Polluter While Neighbors Hold Their Breath by John Thompson at Arctic Deeply
• What is EPA’s Vehicle Lab, and Why Should I Care How It’s Funded? by Dave Cooke at Union of Concerned Scientists
• The flu shot saves children’s lives by Claire McCarthy at Harvard Health Blog
• Noise Makes Dolphins and Whales Flee—and That Can Take Their Breath Away by Jason Bittel at NRDC On Earth
• Octopuses, Squid, and Cuttlefish: RNA Editing Instead of Genome Evolution? by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• Cancer and random mutations – your blueberry kale shake won't help by The Original Skeptical Raptor at Skeptical Raptor
• Mutation in clock gene explains why some night owls stay up late at New Scientist
• Human cannibalism, March for Science by Tabitha Powledge at On Science Blogs

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