What can we do with the ice on Mars? How does sleep loss affect us? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 15-21 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Public service announcement: Get a good night's sleep, don't eat detergent, and be aware that last year was still one of the three hottest on record, despite being in a cool part of the El Nino cycle. Those are just some of the ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past week. Here is the full round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections:

Adriana Bankston talks about discovering her own life path

• How Does Sleep Deprivation Affect the Brain? by Jalees Rehman at The Next Regeneration
• Is a Bigger Genetic Code Better? Get Ready to Find Out by Jordana Cepelewicz at Quanta Magazine
• In the News: Tom Petty by Kevin Shanks at The Dose Makes the Poison 
• The Science Behind The Deadly 'Tide Pod Challenge' by Juan Ramos at Science Trends
• What NASA’s Discovery Of Water On Mars Means For Colonization by Kate Broome at Science Trends
• Speed of universe’s expansion remains elusive by Tom Siegfried at Context
• No one knows if lobsters feel pain, which makes boiling them alive rather complicated by Sara Chodosh at Popular Science
• 2017 Ranked Among Three Hottest Years Ever by Mindy Weisberger at Scientific American
• How the legacy of dirty coal could create a clean energy future by Amin Al-Habaibeh at The Conversation
• A saiga time bomb? Bad news for Central Asia’s beleaguered antelope by Morgan Erickson-Davis at Mongabay
• Biofilms: the ultimate survival mechanism by Debosree Pal at The Biochemist Blog
• Can You Ever Escape From Your Personal and Scientific Bubble? by Adriana Bankston at Stories in Science
• Yes, Science Is For The Religious, Too by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!

Check back next week for more great picks - and if you're a science writer or communicator, don't forget to enter ScienceSeeker's 2018 awards!