- Yo-Yo Dieting: Blame Microbiome and Fewer Flavonoids by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
- 8 ways to hack your Thanksgiving with science by Sarah Fecht at Popular Science
- Make America Informed Again by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
- Scientists Should Share Their Stories: More Important Now Than Ever by Karen McKee at The Scientist Videographer
- Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's Antibody Does Not Work by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
- 4 Reasons Sunflowers Face The Sun by Alun Salt at AoBBlog
- Bad news for passport control: face-matching is harder than we realised by Alex Fradera at The British Psychological Society Research Digest
- The largest survey of opinions on vaccine confidence by Alex de Figueiredo, Ian Johnston, and Nick Jones at Systems and Signals Group
- A New Spin on the Quantum Brain by Jennifer Ouellette at Quanta Magazine
- Spawning Stars by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
- Diving into chilly California waters, understanding genomic differentiation and the role of gene transfer in marine cyanophages by Kelle Freel at The Molecular Ecologist
- How an effective drought reshapes an urban bird community (a thesis seminar) by Madhusudan Katti at Reconciliation Ecology
- Un nuevo mapa más preciso de la vida humana en la Tierra at Noticias de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Amazings
11.28.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 21-27 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:
11.21.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 14-20 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:
- Rock Core from Dinosaur-Killing Impact Reveals How Enormous Craters Form by Alexandra Witze at Nature
- Earthquakes triggered by fracking, not just wastewater disposal, study finds by Kristin Hugo at PBS NewsHour
- The Impossible Space Engine is Back by Steven Thomson at Broken Symmetry
- Girl with terminal cancer wins right to be cryogenically frozen at New Scientist
- Imagine: Listening to Songs Which Make Us More Generous by Jalees Rehman at The Next Regeneration
- Video-triggered ‘brain orgasms’ are mysteriously disappearing by Simon Oxenham at Brain Scanner
- Pupil Size and Intelligence by Neuroskeptic
- Why it’s hard to talk and make eye contact at the same time by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
- Brain and Blood, Diseases and Drugs by Catie Profaci at NeuWrite San Diego
- Post-Truth by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
- Trump, carbon and the Paris agreement by David Archer at RealClimate
- Something really crazy is happening in the Arctic by Tom Yulsman at ImaGeo
- Rates of Hothouse Gas Accumulation Continue to Spike as the Amazon Rainforest Bleeds Carbon by Garry Rogers at GarryRogers.com
- Vaccinations, Vaccine Science, and a New US President by Peter Hoetz at Speaking of Medicine
- Measles: A Forgotten, but Formidable Foe by James L. Goodson at CDC 'Our Global Voices'
- Beyond the Gut: Unlocking the Secrets of the Microbiome by Matt Wood at ScienceLife
- Picocavity confines light to smallest volume ever by Belle Dumé at Nanotechweb
- Oppenheimer's folly: On black holes, fundamental laws and pure and applied science by Ashutosh Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
- Por primera vez se introducen genes editados con CRISPR en humanos by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia
11.14.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 7-13 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:
- Monkeys Regain Control Of Paralyzed Legs With Help Of An Implant by Rae Ellen Bichell at NPR Shots
- Microbes in costumes trick the immune system by Jennifer Tsang at The Microbial Menagerie
- The Genetic History of Horses by Katie Pieper at GSA Genes to Genomes
- World history visualized — from the dawn of civilization to the present day by Ollie Bye at Bookofjoe
- Ask Ethan: Could the Universe be infinite? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
- Lise Meitner's 48 Nobel Prize nominations by Ash Jogakelar at The Curious Wavefunction
- Is daylight savings time really saving us a headache? by Becky Nevin at Cosmic Chatter
- Healthier Lifestyle Linked to Better Brain Function, Delay of Dementia at Science News
- Intimate-Partner Violence in Australia has a Shockingly Big Public Health Impact by Heather Nancarrow at Scientific American
- Neuromodulation and Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorder: Part I Introduction by Manuel Casanova at Cortical Chauvinism
- When the margin of error is decisive: Trump’s victory as a lesson for neuroscience, part 1 at neurocopiae
- Clinton’s and Trump’s personality profiles, according to psychologists by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest.
- Physics Doesn't Care Who Was Elected President by Brian Kahn at Scientific American
- Conservatives elected Trump; now they own climate change by John Abraham at Skeptical Science
- Trumped: Why the election is a symptom of a bigger problem at Lunatic Labs
- Sen. Warren: 'We Stand Up And We Fight Back': Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
- The dilemma facing journalism by Craig Cormick at Cosmos
11.07.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections October 31-November 6 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:
- Don’t make a choice that your children will regret by David Archer, Rasmus Benestad, Ray Bradley, Michael Mann, Ray Pierrehumbert, Stefan Rahmstorf and Eric Steig at RealClimate
- Greens, progressives: No, Clinton and Trump are not the same by Victor Venema at Variability Blog
- Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm; no one knows how it works by Sebastian Anthony at Ars Technica
- Online Sociality Linked to Lower Death Risk by Christopher Intagliata at Scientific American
- Stem cells from schizophrenics produce fewer neurons by Mo Costandi at Neurophilosophy
- The Primate Paradox and Circuit Psychiatry: similarity between primate and human brains makes primate research potentially necessary for psychiatric cures, but does it also make it unethical? by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
- Printable Organs Will Put an End to Transplant Lists by Tobi Ogunnaike at Singularity Hub
- Making the microbiome part of precision medicine by Matt Wood at Science Life
- Oil Production Could Have Caused Century-Old California Earthquakes by Annie Sneed at Scientific American
- RealTimeChem Week: Turning Carbon Dioxide into Useful Plastics by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
- Archaeologist discovers a new style of Viking combat by Johanne Uhrenholt Kusnitzoff at ScienceNordic
- Pasta spirals link neutron stars and the machinery of your cells by Leah Crane at New Scientist
- What Do We Really Know About Our Universe? by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
- Why quantum mechanics might need an overhaul by Tom Siegfried at Context
- Reproducibility is Critical by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
- A seminar room of our own by Izabella Laba at The Accidental Mathematician
- Crystals And Catalysts: Does the public trust clinical trials? by Mariam Zaki at Crystals and Catalysts
- The story of scurvy is a poignant cautionary tale for modern medical science by Liz Csaszar at Signals Blog
- En primer tren alimentado por hidrógeno funcionará en Alemania by Sergio Parra at Xataka Ciencia