How does friction win medals? Do antidepressants work? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of February 19-25 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

There were lots of exciting findings about our brains this week, and much was said about ice. But these are just some of the many topics tackled by ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

In a Spanish cave set of lines painted by
Neandertals was amended by later artists. Credit: Pedro Saura

• Record Breaker! Powerful Supernova Is Most Distant Ever Seen by Mike Wall at Space.com
• Q+A: How Forces of Friction Can Decide Who Wins Gold at The Winter Olympics by Britt Faulstick at Drexel News Blog
• Europe’s first cave artists were Neandertals, newly dated paintings show by Tim Appenzeller at Science
• About that New Antidepressant Study by Neuroskeptic
• Conscious in Dreamland: The Neuroscience of Lucid Dreaming by Barbara Spencer at NeuWrite San Diego
• What Happens To Your Brain In Space? by Dudley the Dog at Dudley Describes
• Autism genes abound in DNA regions involved in learning by Jessica Wright at Spectrum
• In living color: imaging the brain with synthetic bioluminescence by Amanda Alvarez at It Ain't Magic
• Being Weird is Normal, Psychologically Speaking by Jim Fisher at Science News for Writers
• Podcast of the week: Bacteria to the Future with Maryn McKenna and Ryland Young at Big Picture Science
• Breaking the GLASS shroud around the global AMR crisis by Jon Otter at Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control 
• Why remote Antarctica is so important in a warming world by Chris Fogwill, Chris Turney and Zoe Robinson at Skeptical Science
• Rideau Canal Skateway by Gavin Schmidt at Real Climate  
• Was the Bering Land Bridge a good place to live? by Ned Rozell at The Field
• State of Emergency for Atlantic Whales by Francine Kershaw at Natural Resources Defense Council Expert Blog 
• New maps reveal industrial fishing in over half of world’s oceans by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
• Wild relatives of commercial crops harbor untapped reservoirs of resilience by Emma Bryce at Anthropocene
• What racism, sexism and a belief in human superiority have in common by Brandon Keim at Anthropocene
• Bridging the gaps: Einstein on education by Ash Jogalekar at The Curious Wavefunction
• A gender equality paradox: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads by Hayley Halpin at The Journal.ie
• Adapting the language of computers for regenerative medicine by Samantha Payne at Signals
• Harvesting electricity from body movements to charge wearable devices by Amitash at My Science Blog
• Chaos Theory, The Butterfly Effect, And The Computer Glitch That Started It All by Paul Halpern at Starts With a Bang! 
• One million colours at Cosmos Magazine



Credit: Jan-Eric Nyström

• Astrobiología: Río Tinto es Marte, en la Tierra at Amazings, Noticias científicas y tecnológicas

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 - deadline this Wednesday 28th February!