What's the biggest quantum physics myth? What does VR do to your brain? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of February 12-18 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

There were lots of exciting space data this week, while physics posed some fascinating puzzles. 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:

 
• NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just took the farthest-ever images from Earth by Zoë Schlanger at Quartz
• Discovery! Kepler Space Telescope Discovers 95 More Alien Planets by Mike Wall at Space.com
• Wrestling the Demon: the Physics of Free Will by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
• The Biggest Myth In Quantum Physics by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• The Neuroscience of Virtual Reality by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• How Darwin's Fossil Collection Helped Him To Come Up With Evolution by David Bressan at Forbes
• Watch: A minke whale’s view of the Antarctic by WWF via Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
• Robots and computers offer new ways to study sea life by Richard A Lovett at Cosmos
• 15-Year Study Indicates Huge Increase in Pacific Ocean Microplastics by Erica Cicino at Oceans Deeply
• In Defense of Biodiversity: Why Protecting Species from Extinction Matters by Carl Safina at Yale Environment 360
• The Training Of Dr. Robot: Data Wave Hits Medical Care  by John McQuaid at Kaiser Health News
• Botox: The good, the bad and the beautiful by Samantha Jones at NeuWrite San Diego
• More Rough Alzheimer's News by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• Open letter to the FDA by Ben Goldacre and Sile Lane at AllTrials.net
• Quackademic medicine versus being "science-based" by David Gorski at Respectful Insolence
• Podcast of the week: Elevator Science (Part 1) by Cordon Purcell and Nicole George at Superwomen in Science
• Scientists have discovered how to wrap a single drop of oil—without a bottle by Robert F. Service at Science
• Programmable droplets by Larry Hardesty at MIT News
• Robotics Takes On Scientific Publishing by Alvin Hutchinson at Digital Science

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!