- Santa’s Biggest Health Issue Isn’t Cookies by Steve Graff at Penn Medicine News
- Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time by Leah Crane at New Scientist
- Cellular Rejuvenation, For Real by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
- Dircks and Pepper: A Tale of Two Ghosts by Gregory J Gbur at Skulls in the Stars
- Why does the ‘Windchill factor’ make you feel so cold? by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
- Politicians' Most Bogus Science-Related Claims of 2016 by Vanessa Schipani at Scientific American
- Support Science-Based Medicine by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine
12.27.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 19-25 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:
12.19.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 12-18 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:
- A Chemical Chorus by Andrew Hall at Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies
- How the Universe changed in 2016 by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang!
- First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire by Rebecca Boyle at New Scientist
- The weak shall inherit the quasiprobability by Nicole Yunger Halpern at Quantum Frontiers
- Saving a Coral Reef, One Transplant at a Time by Alex Riley at Hakai Magazine
- Aging Is Reversible--at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice by Karen Weintraub at Scientific American
- Muscular dystrophy research is getting directions from lost muscle stem cells by Meredith Hanel at The Expression
- Why monkeys don’t speak English… by Dr Dolittle at Life Lines
- Watson and Pfizer by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
- The Like of Science – A New Impact Factor in the New Publication Landscape by Anna Leida Mölder at Euroscientist
12.12.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 5-11 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:
- Why Exercise May Be the Best Fix for Depression by Ferris Jabr at Scientific American Mind
- A Conversation With Dan Ariely About What Shapes our Motivations by Jessica Gross at Longreads
- T. rex cousin’s 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber at New Scientist
- The Elements redux by Helen Arney at Sciencebase
- Linking Gaucher and Parkinson’s Diseases by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
- A Third of People Given Antibiotics Don't Need Them by Maryn McKenna at Germination
- Can living fig-tree bridges save lives in a changing climate? by Mike Shanahan at Under the Banyan
- Trump's First 100 Days: Science Education and Schools by Devin Powell at Scientific American
- What to watch for when science becomes politicized and Ask Ethan: How do gravitational waves escape from a black hole? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang
- Nobel Prize Data Viz: The Fast and The Spurious by Sophie Mathias by biomolbioandco
- Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability by Hilda Bastian at Absolutely Maybe
- West World and Consciousness by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
- Neuroscientists use neurofeedback to erase fear in the brain by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
- Using Magnets on the Brain to Bring Back Memories by Janice Wood at Brain Blogger
- Book Review: Spaceman by Mike Massimino by Steven Spence at GotScience.org
- Los parques urbanos pueden ser un buen lugar para buscar nuevos antibióticos y antitumorales by Ignacio López-Goñi at microBIO
12.05.2016
ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 28-December 4 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:
- Cold fusion died 25 years ago, but the research lives on by Stephen K Ritter at Chemical and Engineering News
- Influenza is coming by Olivier Bernard at The Pharmafist
- The Underground Map of the Elements – now with Nh, Mc, Ts & Og by Mark Lorch at Chemistry Blog
- Fires and drought cook Tennessee - a state represented by climate deniers by John Abraham at Skeptical Science
- Justin Trudeau approves two big oil sands pipeline expansions by Andy Skuce at Skeptical Science
- Global sea ice in uncharted territory by James Renwick at Hot Topic
- Why Should an Urbanist Care About Biodiversity? by Olivier Scheffer at The Nature of Cities
- Cat-tongues inspire new technology? by Dr Dolittle at Life Lines
- High school students cheaply reproduced a drug that sells for $750 a dose by Kelsey D Atherton at Popular Science
- GSK set for 2017 European rollout of med device asthma app by Dominic Tyer at PM Live
- Civic Online Reasoning by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
- What Should We Do About Comments? by Christie Aschwanden at The Last Word On Nothing
- Third molar agenesis: a puzzling case of recent human evolution by John Hawks at John Hawks Weblog
- Death and a Union of Nations: How the Mosquito Shaped Human History by Xin Liu at Signal to Noise Magazine
- The Human Footprint on Mars is Expanding...Sometimes Faster Than We'd Like by Corey S. Powell at Out There
- How Will Our Religions Handle the Discovery of Alien Life? by David A Weintraub at Nautilus
- Your Brain On God: Reward and Motivation by Bill Yates at Brainposts
- Tell me lies: the truth about the deceptive ACC (dACC) at Neurocopiae
- Thirsty before bed. Connection between ‘body clock’ brain area and ‘thirst’ area creates thirst before sleep, to maintain water balance overnight by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
- Stuff and Starve: A Means of Holiday Binging or Healthy Eating? by N Hoffner at Neuwrite San Diego
- Never say Never! by Thony Christie at The Renaissance Mathematicus
- Science Is Not THAT Special by Chad Orzel at Forbes
- The Landscape for Science post Brexit Anna Leida Mölder at EuroScientist