ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections May 1-7 2017 #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:

• After a Near Sub-2 Marathon, What’s Next? by Alex Hutchinson at Runner's World
• You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - by Matthew Inman at The Oatmeal 
• What’s the largest planet in the Universe? and  How to prove Einstein’s relativity for less than $100 by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• Images of the Earth at night shine a light on developments across the planet by Jessica Snir at Cosmos Magazine
• How Virtual Reality Could Break America’s Opioid Addiction by Jo Marchant at Mosaic
• Man dreams in colour for first time during cancer radiotherapy by Alice Klein at New Scientist
• Fresh evidence of the power of fig trees to sustain wildlife and restore lost forests by Mike Shanahan at Under the Banyan
Relatively rare tropical trees all agree: avoiding the ‘rain of death’ seems like a good call by Kelle Freel at The Molecular Ecologist
• How does carbon dioxide cause global warming? at A Tang of Science
• Urban Birds Sing Shorter Songs When Traffic Is Loud by GrrlScientist 
• DNA fingerprinting reveals how malaria hides from the immune system by John Easton at ScienceLife
• Scientists Surprised to Find No Two Neurons Are Genetically Alike by Simon Makin at Scientific American
• Webinar: Gender bias in academic publishing by Christian Defeo at Mendeley Blog
• Reproducible practices are the future for early career researchers by Dorothy Bishop at BishopBlog
• If Nautilus is so good, why is it doing so bad? by Vasudevan Mukunth at edmx

Check back next week for more great picks!