ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 2-8 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:

• Here’s What You Need to Know to Watch Monday’s Rare Mercury Transit by Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy
• In Science, It’s Never 'Just a Theory' by Carl Zimmer at New York Times
• I Have An IUD And A Chip In My Hand. Why Is Only One Seen As Dangerous? by Rose Veleth at Fusion 
• The Most Important Moment in the History of Life by Joe Hanson at It's Okay To Be Smart
• The dark tales of the world’s most epic sleep-talker by David Robson at BBC Future
• First gene linked to temperature-dependent sex determination by Cristy Gelling at Genes to Genomes
• The Spring '16 Science Art Exhibit Guide by Kalliopi Monoyios at Symbiartic
• New sign languages hint at how all languages evolve by Catherine Matacic at Science
• Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don’t: Clues to Understanding Cancer by Harriet Hall at Science-Based Medicine
• Mass delusions by Thomas Morris
• May the Fourth Be With You! Testing the Physics of BB-8 by 'Halfstache' at Physics Buzz
• How IBM’s new five-qubit universal quantum computer works by Chris Lee at Ars Technica
• Acupuncture for Tension-Type Headache by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Bearded dragons have REM sleep – and may even dream by Belinda Smith at Cosmos Magazine
• Imagine These Experiments in Aphantasia by The Neurocritic
• Signals from the heart to brain prompt feelings of remembering by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest.
• Smartphones uncover how the world sleeps at Lunatic Labs
• This laser system foreshadows a new era in ground-based astronomy by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• Homemade vs store-bought pancakes at Food Crumbles
• Can diet accelerate the development of alzheimer’s disease? by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
• Why it's smart to get dirty by Dermot Barry at Brain Sponge Blog
• Wolbachia Blocks Zika Virus In Brazilian Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes by Michael Coston at Avian Flu Diaries
• On the Seasonal Occurrence and Abundance of the Zika Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes Aegypti in the Contiguous United States by Andrew J Monaghan et al at PLOS Current Outbreaks

Check back next week for more great picks!