- Live cells stuck together like Velcro could mend broken hearts at New Scientist by Joshua Sokol
- When Freud Meets fMRI at The Atlantic by Casey Schwartz
- Weekend Diversion: The Horror And Beauty of California’s Wildfires at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
- Conflicts in the Middle East are bringing down NOx emissions at Is Nerd by Vasudevan Mukunth
- Your BS Detector for Warp Drives, Double Moons, and Other Implausible Claims at Out There by Corey S. Powell
- Why high-impact educational practices (despite being so labor–intensive) keep me coming for more at AMS Blogs by Priscilla Bremser
- Square Root of Kids’ Math Anxiety: Their Parents’ Help at The New York Times by Bob Staake
- Math doesn’t get the media attention it deserves at Columbia Journalism Review by Laura Dattaro
- Kevin Barry, you magnificent bastard, I read your antivaccine book! at Respectful Insolence by Orac
- Cancer cells programmed back to normal by US scientists at The Telegraph by Sarah Knapton
- Oliver Sacks has left the building at Mind Hacks by Vaughan Bell
- Who Will Develop Psychosis? Automated Speech Analysis May Have the Answer by Columbia University
8.31.2015
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 23 - 29, 2015 | #sciseekpicks
Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:
8.25.2015
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 9 - 22, 2015 | #sciseekpicks
Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past two weeks:
- For 40 years, computer scientists have looked for a solution that doesn't exist at The Boston Globe by Laura McLay
- I Refuse to Think Like a Man at Occam's Typewriter by Athene Donald
- Surprising or contradictory health news stories encourage readers to be skeptical about science at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett
- Why your nervous system wrinkles your fingers at Mapping Ignorance by Jaime de Juan Sanz
- The Physics of Butterfly Wings at Azimuth by John Carlos Baez
- What's more radioactive than a nuclear power plant? at Physics Buzz
- Math Fought The Law, And The Law Won at AMS Blogs by Anna Haensch
- Travels in a Mathematical World: #realfaceofmath at The Aperiodical by Peter Rowlett
- Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile at The Guardian by Alex Bellos
- Physics: She did it all at Nature by Val Gibson
- The last 5% at The Thesis Whisperer by Inger Mewburn
- 5 hot research topics our scientists are homing in on at Cancer Research UK by Nick Peel
- "Aborted fetal tissue" and vaccines: Combining pseudoscience and religion to demonize vaccines at Science-Based Medicine by David Gorski
- A thought on impact factors at Green Tea and Velociraptors by Jon Tennant
- Nature's Eyes on Environment Blog: the story of a cave and climate change at Goodnight Earth by Jonathan Trinastic
- The Most Impossible Idea from Star Trek at Starts With a Bang by Ethan Siegel
- The Periodic Table's Endangered Elements at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
8.10.2015
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 2 - 8, 2015 | #sciseekpicks
Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:
- Artificial Intelligence is Already Weirdly Human at Nautilus by David Berreby
- Blue Smoke, Red Sun at Physics Buzz
- The enduring legacy of Leo Szilard, father of the atomic age at The Curious Wavefunction by Ashutosh Jogalekar
- Bouncing Back at Chemistry World Blog by Rowena Fletcher-Wood
- The Connoisseur of Number Sequences at Quanta Magazine by Erica Klarreich
- What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair? at Math Programming by Jeremy Kun
- Fifty psychological terms to just, well, be aware of at Mind Hacks by Vaughan Bell
8.03.2015
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 26 - August 1, 2015 | #sciseekpicks
Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:
- "Is Your Brain Really Necessary?", Revisited at Neuroskeptic
- I'm going to stop ignoring ResearchGate at Small Pond Science by Terry McGlynn
- Cosmic Chemistry on Pluto and Titan: The Formation of Tholins, and Their Possible Link to Life on Earth at Tree Town Chemistry by Samuel Esarey
- Paranormal (AC)tivity at Physics Buzz
- A Simple Guide to Neurotransmitters at Compound Interest by Andy Brunning
- Hypernom at The Aperiodical by Christian Perfect
- Where the Laws No Longer Hold at Math With Bad Drawings by Ben Orlin
- How our brains toy with our minds at The Washington Post by Matthew Hutson