ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 11 - 24, 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:

• The Designer Behind the Greatest Fake Mars Mission Ever at Out There by Corey S. Powell
• Cassini Reveals That Enceladus is Embraced by a Web of Cracks at Life, Unbounded by Caleb Scharf
• Meteorite impact turns silica into stishovite in a billionth of a second at An Atom's-Eye View of the Planet by Simon Redfern
• Public service announcement: No, drinking your own urine will not cure breast cancer at Respectful Insolence by Orac
• Throwback Thursday: How Dark Matter's #1 Competitor Died at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• The Future Soon at Physics Steve by Steven Thomson
• The early teaching of chemistry at Education in Chemistry Blog by Michael Seery
• The Neuroscience of Anorexia Reveals Why It's So Hard to Treat at Science of Us by Carrie Arnold
• The Science Surrounding Cryonics at MIT Technology Review by David W. Crippen, Robert J. Shmookler Reis, Ramon Risco, and Natasha Vita-More
• Seeing Sounds and Tasting Shapes - Synaesthesia and Phenomenon at The Neuron by Musa Clarke

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 4 - 10, 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:

• Useful science communication resources at Small Pond Science by Amy Parachnowitsch
• Psychologists study twins to learn more about the roots of procrastination at BPS Research Digest by Christian Jarrett
• From 0 to 5,000 Planets in Exactly 20 Years at Out There by Corey S. Powell
• Sounds of seduction at Mapping Ignorance by Jose Ramon Alonso
• Throwback Thursday: What should we build after the LHC? at Starts With a Bang! by Ethan Siegel
• Scientists pave way for diamonds to trace early cancers at PhysOrg by the University of Sydney
• Detecting HIV diagnostic antibodies with DNA nanomachines at Nouvelles (Universite de Montreal)
• Wherein CP does that exam problem with the crocodile at The Aperiodical by Christian Lawson-Perfect
• Mathematical myths, legends and inaccuracies: some examples at The Aperiodical by Peter Rowlett
• How much consciousness does an octopus have? at Wired by Emily Reynolds
• 4% of people hear music in a completely different way - and it tells us something fascinating about the brain at Business Insider by Erin Brodwin

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections September 27 - October 3, 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:

• The amateur who helped Einstein see the light at Science News by Tom Siegfried
• How Perceived Fears May Influence Companies' Labelling of Nanoparticles at Sustainable Nano by Ese Ehimiaghe
• Good enough at Education in Chemistry Blog (RSC) by Duncan McMillan
• How Animals Mourn at Brain Decoder by Mary Bates
• What's in Your Nightmares? The Top 5 Recurring Dreams of Adults and Kids at Brain Facts by Douglas Fields

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