What can we do with waste solar cells? What is the Humongous Fungus? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 16-22 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn more about long Covid and what the latest upgraded atom-smasher will tell us. 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?

• Speech or Song? Identifying How the Brain Perceives Music by Lisa M. P. Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Mental Health Care Should Be Available for All, Not a Luxury by Sarah Sloat at Scientific American
• Podcast: Money 2.0: Emotional Currency by Shankar Vedantam at Hidden Brain
• Over 75 Percent of Long Covid Patients Were Not Hospitalized for Initial Illness, Study Finds by Pam Belluck for The New York Times
• Study discovers an underlying cause for infantile spasms and points to a novel therapy at Science Daily
• What the World’s Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forests by Colin Hogan for Wired

Honey fungus, the species that makes up the 
3.4 square mile 'humungous fungus'
Image credit: Charles de Mille-Isles/Flickr CC BY 2.0 licence

• Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife by Liz Kimbrough at Mongabay 
• 9m deaths a year from pollution, the ‘largest existential threat’ to humans by Elizabeth Claire Alberts at Mongabay
• Upcycling strategy turns discarded solar cells into thermoelectrics by Michael Berger at Nanowerk
• Can the new-and-improved Large Hadron Collider save particle physics? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!

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What's the world's lightest material? What does the black hole at the centre of the Milky way look like? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 9-15 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn a simple trick to improve your mental health and how robots and AI are helping improve farming. 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?

• Combining 3D printing and self-assembly to fabricate the world's lightest material by Michael Berger at Nanowerk 

This graphene lattice is itself less dense than air, but doesn't float away because it is filled with air.

• The race against radon by Chris Baraniuk at Knowable Magazine
• The human genome, fully sequenced at last! by Rosa García-Verdugo at Mapping Ignorance 
• Without this protein, tuberculosis is powerless by Miles Martin at Sanford Burnham Prebys
• DDX3X loss affects male, female mouse neurons differently by Laura Dattaro at Spectrum
• Organoids hint at origins of enlarged brains in autistic people by Peter Hess at Spectrum
• Growth charts map brain changes across lifespan by Chloe Williams at Spectrum
• Mouse models mirror cerebellum patterns seen in autism by Angie Voyles Askham at Spectrum
• Spinal fluid from young mice sharpened memories of older rodents by Benjamin Mueller for The New York Times 
• Study on the “ABCs of Mental Health” finds that simply believing you can improve mental wellbeing helps actually improve it at SharpBrains
• Relationship advice from mucus by Manasvi Verma at MicroBites 
• Migratory birds and light pollution by Riley Bell at Promega Connections
• Biologist fighting plastic pollution to save sea turtles wins ‘Green Oscar’ by Kaleab Girma at Mongabay
• Where did all these plants come from? by David K. Fotouhi at Sciworthy
• Farming drives toward ‘precision agriculture’ technologies by Tom Johnson for Wired
• Meet Sagittarius A* by Alfredo Carpineti at The Astroholic

Get to know our nearest black hole, Sagittarius A*! 

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What does a black hole sound like? Can pandas help other endangered bears? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 2-8 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about a smart device that can clean water at the press of a button and how video games can help mental health. 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?

• Lessons from Panda Conservation Could Help Asia’s Other, Overlooked, Bears by Spoorthy Raman at Mongabay

Sloth bears aren't as cute or popular as pandas 
Image by  N. A. Naseer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5 IN).

• The Surprising Scale of the Seagrass Sanitation Service by Sean Mowbray at Hakai Magazine
• A User-friendly And Energy-efficient Device That Generates Clean Drinking Water With The Push Of One Button by Sunaina Dolwani at Coffee Table Science
• New NASA Black Hole Sonifications with a Remix at ChandraBlog
• Gallium: The Liquid Metal That Could Transform Soft Electronics by Kurt Kleiner at Knowable Magazine 
• A Brain Chemical Helps Neurons Know When to Start a Movement by Allison Whitten for Wired 
• Understanding Memory Recall and Storage in the Brain by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi at Discover Magazine 
• The Surprising Mental Health Benefits of Video Games by Darren Incorvaia at Discover Magazine 
• Rising star: Lucia Peixoto, breaking down the interplay between sleep and autism by Angie Voyles Askham at Spectrum
• Null and Noteworthy: Sex bias and gender blend by Laura Dattaro at Spectrum
• Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds by Azeen Ghorayshi for The New York Times
• We unconsciously pay more attention to someone who has dilated pupils and Here’s why phrases like “rowdy bowels” and “moose ooze” seem funny by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• New Treatment for Infants With Weakened Immune Systems by Claire Bochaberi at Sciworthy
• The Role of the Human Gut Microbiome in Pancreatic Cancer by Aishat Motolani at OncoBites

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What happens in our brains before death? Do people still want kids after the pandemic? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for April 25 -May 1 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about conch conservation and extraverts' perceived weakness. 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?

• What happens if the Solar System’s largest comet collides with Earth? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang 

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, the largest comet ever discovered,
has a nucleus that’s approximately 119 kilometers across.
If such an object were to strike Earth, the energy imparted to our planet
would be thousands to ten thousand times as energetic as the
K-Pg impactor that occurred 65 million years ago. (Credit: NASA/Don Davis)

• The Queen Conch’s Gambit by Cynthia Barnett for Wired
• To stop plastic pollution, we must stop plastic production, scientists say at Mongabay.com 
• Deep-learning tool tracks interacting animals in real time by Niko McCarty at Spectrum
• Soil protists as indicators of pollution by Maria Martynova at MicroBites 
• Healing from the skin: the first topical gene therapy is out by Rosa García-Verdugo at Mapping Ignorance
• Nanotechnology-enabled low-cost, point-of-care, self-test of sodium in the comfort of your home by Yashwant Mahajan at Nanowerk
• More Kids? After the Last Two Years? No Thanks. by Emily Gould for The New York Times 
• What’s Happening in Your Brain Moments Before Death? by Donna Sarkar at Discover Magazine 
• Lies, Deception and the Criminal Justice System by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi at Discover Magazine 
• Background music can make us less cautious by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Extraverts are considered to be poorer listeners by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Mind Matters Chapter 4: Gifted Intelligence by Kenneth Lyen and Lim Daphne at I Saw the Science
• Collaborative neuroimaging initiative BrainChart helps chart how brains change across the lifespan at SharpBrains
• News on how the brain changes over time, how to clear foggy brains, how to multitask (or not), and more at SharpBrains

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Which global killer disease has a new vaccine? Which measurement might transform physics? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for April 11-24 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about how to find a good mental health app, and how people are replacing lost 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?

• To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones by Jason Ruffin at Wired

In Jordan, a team is planting Pistacia lentiscus, the rare wild pistachio tree.
Image credit: SAM_3326 used via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 licence

• Octopuses can teach us a lot by Justin A. Varholick at Speaking of Research 
• What if plastic could detect light or clean wastewater? by Madeleyn Cajamarca and Gina Misra at Sciworthy
• The first malaria vaccine is a leap forward, but we can’t stop now by Matthew Laurens at Knowable Magazine
• Are Pan-Coronavirus Vaccines Possible? by Derek Lowe at Science  
• Did Fermilab’s new result blow a hole in the Standard Model? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• I stopped working on black hole information loss. Here’s why. by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction  
• ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens by Matt Richtel and Annie Flanagan for The New York Times
• How to Find a Mental Health App That Works for You by Christina Caron for The New York Times
• Why Is Gut Health Taking Over TikTok? by Dani Blum for The New York Times 
• How Is Social Media Morphing Our Self-Image? by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi at Discover
• Why Burnout Makes You Feel Like You Can’t Think Straight by Elizabeth Svoboda at Discover 
• Five ways to clear foggy brains and improve cognitive well-being at SharpBrains
• Debate: Will digital therapeutics gain the required levels of awareness, adoption, reimbursement and fulfillment to become sustainable? at SharpBrains
• Good Cholesterol (HDL) Particles In Cerebrospinal Fluid Play A Vital Role In Protecting The Brain by Sunaina Dolwani at Coffee Table Science
• Researchers, advocates rush to aid autistic Ukrainians by Laura Dattaro at Spectrum 
• Spotted around the web: Fragile X epigenetics, brain imaging issues, prenatal tests warning by Jill Adams at Spectrum
• Making Science More Open Is Good for Research—but Bad for Security by Grace Browne for Wired

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