What if China finds aliens? And where should you keep tomatoes? Find out in our Nov 6-12 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

What sends shivers down your spine? Art and music, or maybe the chance of finding aliens? This week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick include these and many other subjects in their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is the full round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

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• Exposing the Weird Pleasure of Aesthetic Chills by Maria Ter-Mikaelian at Medium
• What Happens If China Makes First Contact? by Ross Anderson at The Atlantic 
• 7 Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For by Subodh Patil at Nautilus
• A bizarre supernova keeps exploding over and over again by Leah Crane at New Scientist
• The Loss Of The Martian Atmosphere Over Its Lifetime by Thomas Craven at Science Trends
• The Dynamic Duo: Jupiter's Independently Pulsating X-ray Auroras at Chandra X-ray Observatory

Credit: NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory

• In the fridge or on the windowsill: where’s the best place to keep tomatoes? by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask
• It’s decorative gourd genetics season, muppet-huggers by Jeremy Yoder at The Molecular Ecologist
• How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster by Rob Desalle at Nautilus
• Podcast of the week: How can we stop infections carried by Mosquitos? by Jesse Noar at BacterioFiles 
• Confronting the environmental cost of marijuana by Brandon Keim at Anthropocene
• Ecologists Strike Back Against Invasive Green Crabs by Peter Arcuni at KQED News
• Mysterious 'geomagnetic spike' 3,000 years ago challenges our understanding of the Earth's interior by Christopher Davies at The Conversation
• Live from Falling Walls at Scientific American
• “Peel-and-go” printable structures fold themselves by Larry Hardesty at MIT News

Check back next week for more great picks!