- In Praise of Lab-Grown Meat by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog
- Minimalist cell whittled down to 473 genes by Amy Middleton at Cosmos Magazine
- Aerogels: Nanotechnology to Space and Beyond by Merve Doğangün at SustainableNano
- Outmoded Diseases: Spermatorrhea by Cassandra Willyard at The Last Word on Nothing
- Explosive road rage-like anger linked to parasite spread by cats by Brian Owens at New Scientist
- NASA Sees The Shockwave Of An Exploding Star For The First Time by Mary Beth Griggs at Popular Science
- 10 Quantum Truths About Our Universe by Sabine Hossenfelder at Starts With A Bang!
- First particle-beams of 2016 in CERN's Large Hadron Collider by Jon Butterworth at Life and Physics
- A geometry theorem looking for a geometric proof by Dave Richeson at Division by Zero
- Vanishing Japanese rice paddies mean biodiversity loss by Jonathan Trinastic at Goodnight Earth
- Ancient viruses lurk in our DNA at Lunatic Labs
- Photosynthesis more ancient than thought, and most living things could do it by Teresa TerraX at After Big Bang
- Prepublication: Everybody’s Doing It? by at Promega Connections
- The Perils of Writing About Women in Science by Sarah Boon at Watershed Moments: Thoughts from the Hydrosphere
- CDC may have underestimated prevalence of obesity in U.S. at Harvard School of Public Health
- Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in Blind Children by Manuel Casanova at Cortical Chauvinism
- Apple creates open source personal health app software by Dominic Tyer at PMLive Digital Intelligence blog
3.28.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections March 21-27 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm
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:
3.21.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections March 14-20 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm
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 Most Science News Bullshit? by Simon Oxenham at PrimeMind
- Working Toward a Tool to Help Us Understand How Misinformation Spreads Online by Matt Shipman at Communication Breakdown
- Annotations on a tweet-storm directed more-or-less towards Neil deGrasse Tyson by Jeremy Yoder at The Molecular Ecologist
- Who Teaches The Teachers? by Simon Oxenham at Neurobonkers
- The “Lost” Paper of Gregor Mendel, the Patron Saint of Low Impact Scientific Publishing by John Fleischman at ACSB
- Confusing overdiagnosis for an “epidemic” of thyroid cancer in Japan after Fukushima by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
- Basic Income: A radical idea for eliminating poverty by Public Health Perspectives
- What's the connection between residential segregation and health? by Donald F Schwarz at Culture of Health
- A pulse on the Mediterranean diet by José Viosca from Mapping Ignorance
- Autism + depression = more medical issues? by Paul Whiteley at Questioning Answers
- The amygdala: Beyond fear at Neuroscientifically Challenged
- Sizing Up Living Brain Tissue by Lisa Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
- How False Memory Changes What Happened Yesterday by Julia Shaw at Scientific American Mind guest blog
- Should you be scared of your shampoo? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
- The Hunt is On: Finding New Antibiotics by Tim Walker and Adam P. Roberts at Mostly Microbes
- Could the Large Hadron Collider make an Earth-killing black hole? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
- Physicist’s story of science breaks historians’ rules by Tom Siegfried at Context
- Google DeepMind's AlphaGo Finishes Final Tournament Match With A Win by Dave Gershgorn at Popular Science
- Wiring the Brain: The surprising real genetics behind the X-Men by Kevin Mitchell at Wiring the Brain
- The CRISPR Conundrum by Mary Bates at IEEE PULSE
- From Denisovan DNA to Future Humanity by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
- Viruses of fungi are in a world of their own at Uncoating
- New horse-sized tyrannosaur with big brain reveals how "T. rex" became top predator by Becky Haberacker at Smithsonian Insider
- Rock Art - A Hunting Ritual? by Andrea Russo at Sci-Ed in the Lab and Beyond
- Algal Toxins Found in Alaskan Marine Mammals by Neha Jain at GotScience.org
- Global Warming Basics: What Has Changed? by Tamino at Open Mind
3.14.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections March 7-13 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm
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:
- Scott Kelly and Beyond: How rodents are being utilized by NASA and the ISS by Justin at Speaking of Research
- In search of Martian methane by Stuart Clark at On Life and Physics
- The Direction of LIGO's Gravitational Waves by Jonah Miller at The Physics Mill
- P Value Under Fire by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine
- Somebody explain to me again why we have journals by Steve Shea at The Ideal Observer
- It’s time for positive action on negative results by Stephen Curry at Chemical and Engineering News
- Uneven Distribution of Viruses Suggests Surprising Evolutionary Power by Jennifer Frazer at Artful Amoeba
- What makes a cell susceptible to zika virus? by Joost Snijder at uncoating
- Natural history of canopy-dwelling beetles: More than just ‘Fun Facts’ by Jessica Turgeon at Arthropod Ecology
- Prairie Word of the Day: Shifting Mosaic of Habitat by Chris Helzer at The Prarie Ecologist
- Animal Rips Apart Own Skin Before Meals by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery.com
- Fossilised leaves are forced to tell their story by Viviane Richter at COSMOS
- A snowdrop celebration in west Dorset by Philip Strange at Marshwood Vale Magazine
- Science sisters of the Amazon by Barbara Fraser at Forests News
- Women Scientists You Didn't Learn About In School by Annabel G Edwards at Popular Science
- The Future of Mind Control by Mayra at On Psychology and Neuroscience
- People with anxiety show fundamental differences in perception at Lunatic Labs
- Insight Strikes! But Can You Trust It? by Garth Sundem
- Five years later, Fukushima’s contamination is slow to fade by Shalini Saxena at Ars Technica
- Science teachers could be obstacle to climate change education by Jonathan Trinastic at Goodnight Earth
- Silence away, HD investigators! by Quinn Eastman at The Emory Health Sciences Research Blog
- Dogs, Exercise and Diabetes by Mutual Rescue at Brainposts
- Tobacco use and alcohol intake key risk factors for head and neck cancer by Derek Richards at The Dental Elf
- Kidney Transplantation in Identical Twins: Do They Need Immunosuppresion?
- Why We Un-cooked an Egg by Elia Haber at Science Bar
3.07.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 29-March 6 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm
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:
- GMOs: An unhealthy debate by Alex Taylor at Thought and Awe
- Ten thousand years of GMO foods – making inedible edible by Skeptical Raptor
- Paper Drives Home How Much Politics Influences Attitudes Toward Science Issues by Matt Shipman at Communication Breakdown
- What Donald Trump's smile says about the emotions of the US public by Alex Fradera at BPS Research Digest
- There is a reproducibility crisis in psychology and we need to act on it by Dorothy Bishop at Bishop Blog
- "Schizophrenia" does not exist. Discuss. by Paul Whiteley at Questioning Answers
- "Joke Addiction" As A Neurological Symptom by Neuroskeptic at Discover
- Zika virus infects human neural stem cells, but… and Your brain and the 'neuronal big bang' at Lunatic Labs
- Social mimicry and theory of mind interactions by Zusi at On Psychology and Neuroscience
- People will follow a robot in an emergency – even if it’s wrong by Aviva Rutkin at New Scientist
- Is Depression Always a Disease? by Therese J Borchard at World of Psychology
- More Support for Early Exposure to Peanuts to Prevent Allergies by Andrew Pollack at Well
- New immunotherapy discovery could give treatments the precision they need by Alan Worsley at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
- VIDEO: What exactly is epigenetics? by Ulla Gjeset Schjølberg at ScienceNordic
- How zebrafish help advance cancer research by Jan Botthof at Speaking of Research
- Some viruses play the shell game by Joost Snijder at Uncoating
- I love thial-S-oxides so much I cry by Shane Caldwell at Superhelical
- The Science of Snow by N Niemuth at SustainableNano
- Seasons On Mars - How Do They Compare With Earth? by Robert Walker at Robert Inventor
- Banning the tackle in rugby: A lesson in A vs Z by Ross Tucker at The Science of Sport
- Snakes in a park? Not as much trouble as you'd expect by Sarah DeWeerdt at Conservation
- Mapped: The sensitivity of the world’s ecosystems to climate Robert McSweeney at Carbon Brief
- The Lack of the Landscape of Fear in Eastern Forests by John Laundre at Living Alongside Wildlife
- What do chimp ‘temples’ tell us about the evolution of religion? by Rowan Hooper at New Scientist
- Monarch Conservation Strategies by Chris Helzer at Prarie Ecologist
- Big Bugs, Little Bugs by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions as Rules
- Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind by Siobhan Roberts at Quanta
- Discrete Analysis launched by Gowers