How does Nature inspire us? How does marijuana work? The answers are among our July 3-9 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:

How a Jupiter-type planet might form. Credit: ESO/L. Caláada

• Science uncovers the origin of the first light in the Universe by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• LHC pops out a new particle that could test the strong force by Jacob Aron at New Scientist
• Earth’s Seven Sisters by Tom Barratt at Absolute Science
• Jupiter-Type Planets Come In Regular And Supersize by Brian Koberlein at Forbes
• An Algorithm Helps Protect Mars Curiosity's Wheels by Andrew Good at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• A huge scanner that can read body language in real situations by John Biggs at TechCrunch
• New map of world’s most toxic countries by Ekbal Hussain at The Pale Blue Dot
• Biological control: birds vs. (insects vs. insects) by Fred Singer at Fred's Ecology and Environmental Tales 
• Cystic Fibrosis Among Asians: Why Ethnicity-Based Genetic Testing is Obsolete by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• Ancient-genome studies grapple with Africa’s past by Ewen Callaway at Nature
• The 100 000 Genomes Project by Leanne Edermaniger at ScienceLED
• Scientists Map the Receptor That Makes Weed Work by Nick Stockton at Wired
• Absurd alkaline ideas – history, horror and jail time by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• Untreatable gonorrhoea on the march worldwide, says WHO  by Phil Taylor at PMLive
• Custom cancer vaccines safely fight and kill tumors in early human trials by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• You don’t have to climb a mountain for a “peak experience” in nature to be life-changing by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Here’s how a child sees a Van Gogh painting by Laura Sanders at Growth Curve
• Postpartum psychosis: “I’m afraid of how you’ll judge me, as a mother and as a person” by Catherine Carver at Mosaic
• Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? by Stephen Buranyi at The Guardian
• What’s the return? Or…how is it possible that Open Library of Humanities works? by Cameron Neylon at Science in the Open
• Sweeping Sands by Dana Hunter at Rosetta Stones

Check back next week for more great picks!