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:

• 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 

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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

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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

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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

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