- The Closest Terrestrial Exoplanet Discovered by AstroJake at The Astrophysics Journal
- Cassini prepares for its final, suicidal mission by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
- When Will Life Exist? by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
- Your Coffee Addiction May Be In Your Genes by Sam Lee Cole at Popular Science
- Behold the octobot—a fully autonomous, soft-bodied robot by John Timmer at Ars Technica
- Why cancer is (still) more than just ‘bad luck’ by Emma Smith at Cancer Research UK Science Blog
- I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong review – full of life’s little surprises by Stephen Curry at The Guardian
- To diet or not to diet: what does your brain think? by Elena Vicario at NeuWrite San Diego
- How a Neuroscientist Came Around to Improv Comedy by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
- The relationship between low physical activity and psychotic symptoms at Lunatic Labs
- Effects of Emoticons on the Brain by Neuroskeptic at Discover
- The beer brewing process - Beer science at home at Food Crumbles
- Obama Goes Big: Expansion of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Makes It The World’s Largest Marine Protected Area by Christie Wilcox at Science Sushi
- Medusas, la invasión silenciosa by José Manuel Nieves at El Blog Ciencia Y Technologica por José Manuel Nieves
- Aquamess: Portraits of Garbage from the Top of the World by Carol Devine at Signal to Noise Magazine
- Summers in the redwood forest by Matthew Brousil at Dispatches from the Field
- Invasive species in developing countries by Dirk Steinke at DNA Barcoding
- An unlikely choice between a gasoline or diesel car… by Dasaraden Mauree at EGU Atmospheric Sciences blog
8.22.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 22-28 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm
Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 15-21 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm
Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:
- Do intersex women athletes have an edge over the field? by Richard A Lovett at Cosmos Magazine
- A gold medal for tissue engineering? Engineered brain organoids lend insight to Zika virus pathology by Holly Wobma at Signals
- The Composition of the Rio Olympics Medals by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
- Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
- A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold key to quantum gravity by Tom Siegfried at Context
- Bertrand’s Ballot Problem by Jim Propp at Mathematical Enchantments
- Magnetic Bacteria Carry Drugs into Tumors by Isobel Maciver at Promega Connections
- Whole plant cells producing viral capsid protein as a poliovirus vaccine candidate by Vincent Racaniello at Virology Blog
- Single vs. Double-Blind Review: Is it really bad to let reviewers know who you are? by Josh Schimel at Writing Science
- Lluvias de rayos gamma y de polvo cometario by Ricardo Montiel at El Sofista
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8.15.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 8-14 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm
Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:
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- Puzzling pool problems? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
- We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance by Stephen Hsu at Nautilus
- Physicists look to the future as new particle dream dies by Leah Crane at New Scientist
- This is Your Brain on Physics by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
- Where does the mass of a proton come from? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
- Polio rears its head again in Nigeria, after two years of no cases by Helen Branswell at STAT
- How the Knowledge of Locals Is Helping Google Build Better Maps by Greg Miller at National Geographic
- Everything is fucked: The syllabus by Sanjay Srivastava at The Hardest Science
8.08.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections August 1-7 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:
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- The Facts about Zika by Malika Kumar, Nisar Farhat, and Jeff Maloy at Signal to Noise Magazine
- Microcephaly discoveries in non-Zika cases explain abnormal brain growth at Lunatic Labs
- If the Olympics Were Held in Space by Chip Rowe at Nautilus
- The Perseid Metor Shower May Have a Strong Outburst of Shooting Stars This Year. Here's How to Watch by Phil Plait at Slate
- Life and the Universe by Maggie Aderin-Pocock at IAI News
- A typical British high tea - on the bitterness of tea at Food Crumbles
- Speedy the Tortoise and Altering the Genetic Code by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
- Parabiosis – The Next Snakeoil by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine
- Depression and Men: Why It’s Hard to Ask for Help by Therese J. Borchard at World of Psychology
- Hallucinations vs Delusions – What’s the Difference? at Brain Blogger
- Gender differences at the movies – women better at remembering rom-coms, men at remembering action flicks by Alex Fradera at BPS Research Digest
- The Problematic Rise of Big Neuro by Hilary Rose at IAI News
- How Quantum Sudoku Demonstrate Entanglement by Chad Orzel at Forbes
- How volcanos collapse by Catherine Jex at ScienceNordic
- New research shows penguins will suffer in a warming world by Dana Nuccitelli at Skeptical Science
- No Introductions Necessary? by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions As Rules
- Mike Pence does not understand evolution by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
- How to Develop a Science Social Media Plan by Paige Brown Jarreau at From the Lab Benches
- Primera medida real del aumento del tráfico marítimo en el Ártico by Francisco R. Villatoro at La Ciencia de la Mula Francis
8.01.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections July 25-31 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:
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- Should Politicians Be Drug Tested? by Lisa Thomas at Analyte Guru
- How to name a caribou by Michelle Nijhuis at The Last Word on Nothing
- Fishing-induced evolution by Sébastien Nusslé at Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
- Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity by Sally Adee at New Scientist
- To improve your memory, try to get some space by Jarrett Lovelett at NeuWrite San Diego
- Why do antidepressants take so long to work? at Lunatic Labs
- Blink and you won’t miss a thing by Jen Martin at Espresso Science
- Differentiating Shame from Guilt: It’s Not So Easy by John Amodeo at World of Psychology
- Complaining and the Brain – How “Bad Karma” Is Created by Viatcheslav Wlassoff at Brain Blogger
- Cannabinoids Hold Promise for Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment by Sara Adaes at Brain Blogger
- Modeling Vienna’s traffic: air pollution and health by Anneke Brand at IIASA Vienna Nexus
- Explainer: what dust from the Sahara does to you and the planet by Jacob Adetunji at The Conversation
- A Tougher Turing Test by Steven Novella at NeuroLogica Blog
- Ice Bucket Challenge Funds New ALS Gene Discovery by Kate Baggaley at Popular Science
- We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated by Ahmed Alkhateeb at Nautilus
- Should we just abandon p-values altogether? by Sam Watson at The Academic Health Economists' Blog
- Why You Should Care about High-Dimensional Sphere Packing by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity
- Habits of highly mathematical people by Jeremy Kun
- Dark matter may be completely invisible by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
- Cómo se guían los colibríes para evitar colisiones a gran velocidad at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Amazings