Where does gold come from? What did Hawking's last paper mean? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of March 19-25 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

If you're wearing any gold jewellery, there's a probable, and awesome, prospect that the gold atoms themselves were forged in a collision between neutron stars. This and many other topics are among 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:

Image credit: Penny4Nasa

• Pluto’s mountains may have slid along a kilometre a day by Richard Lovett at Cosmos
• Neutron star mergers may create much of the universe’s gold by Sid Perkins at Science
• Hunting up the ghosts of elements by Michelle Francl at Culture of Chemistry
• Want to Win? What physics has to say about teamwork by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Hawking’s “Final Theory” is not groundbreaking by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction
• Multiple Representations of Momentum Transfer — The Card Sort by Kelly O'Shea at Physics! Blog!
• How Reading Novels in Math Class Can Strengthen Student Engagement by Kara Newhouse at Mind/Shift
• Podcast of the week: Does ESP reveal Spirit Existence? at Closer to Truth
• An Uber self-driving car has killed a pedestrian in Arizona by Chelsea Whyte at New Scientist

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Is daylight saving bad for you? Why do lemons taste sour? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of March 12-18 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week, as we say goodbye to Stephen Hawking, we coincidentally welcome a newly identified type of 'northern light' aurora to the sky, called Steve. These and many other topics are among 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:

Credit: Pineapples and Whales

• Rays use Nurseries by Daisy at Pineapples and Whales
• Ocean Trash Hotspots by Bob Hirshon and George Leonard at Science Update
• Songbirds Have a Story To Tell About Climate Change by Craig Miller at KQED
• Is Daylight Saving Time Good or Bad for You? by Katie Peek at Scientific American
• Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red by Andy Coghlan at New Scientist
• There’s a new aurora in subpolar skies. Its name is Steve. by Katherine Kornei at Science
• Ice Alive: An audiovisual exploration of the Greenland Ice Sheet by Joseph M Cook at To The Poles
• What a century of climate change has done to France’s biggest glacier by Kieran Baxter at The Conversation
• The Quest for the Collision Zone: An Arctic Expedition by William E. Glassley at Longreads
• New study tracks the evolution of stone tools by Kiona N. Smith at Ars Technica
• Can the Smell of a Loved One Relieve Stress? by Romero Vitelli at Psychology Today 
• Why do lemons taste sour? The puzzle of innate qualia. by Kevin Mitchell at Wiring the Brain
• Does the Adult Brain Really Grow New Neurons? by Helen Shen at Scientific American
• DNA: Giving Voice to a New Population of Victims by Caroline Soper at ISHI News
• Good and Potentially Bad About FDA's Greenlighting of 23andMe Direct-to-Consumer BRCA Mutation Tests by Ricki Lewis at Genetic Literacy Project 
• The 30-Year Quest To Tame The 'Wily' Cancer Gene by Richard Harris at Shots
• Better agricultural planning could prevent 88% of biodiversity loss, study finds by Morgan Erickson-Davis at Mongabay
• Remembering Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) by Christopher White at Institute of Physics Blog
• A poem for Stephen Hawking by John Preskill at Quantum Frontiers
• Determining MNI (Minimum Number of Individuals) by Stephanie Halmhofer at Bones and Stones
• What are Novichok agents? What we do (and don’t) know about them by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest

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Why do we listen to songs on repeat? Do adults still produce new neurons? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of March 5-11 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

There's a lot of good astronomy writing this week, on weird stars, Jupiter's weather, and why all the solar system's planets can be found along the same flat plane. 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:

No, it's not a space pizza. This is a picture
of cyclones on Jupiter. Credit: NASA

• Watch Now: The Weirdest Stars in the Universe by Yasemin Saplakoglu and Emily Levesque at Scientific American
• Scientists find odd and amazing cyclones at Jupiter’s poles  by Eric Berger at Ars Technica
• Why Do All The Planets Orbit In The Same Plane? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang! 
• Archaeological Finds Suggest That Ancient Maya Religion Was Inspired By Fossils by David Bressan at Forbes
• A fascination with violence: appetitive aggression in males and females by Danie Meyer-Parlapanis and Mareike Augsburger at Research Features
• Adult brains do not make new neurons, controversial new study claims and FDA Approves First Direct-to-Consumer Test for Breast Cancer Risk by Sharon Begley at STAT  
• Another anti-vaccine myth debunked – "too many, too soon" is bad science at Skeptical Raptor
• Will Antimicrobial Stewardship be the Next Target for De-implementation? by Eli Perencevich at Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention 
• Deadly superbug just got scarier—it can mysteriously thwart last-resort drug by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• Bad air worse than bad genes for many diseases by Paul Biegler at Cosmos Magazine
• Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future by Gloria Dickie at Mongabay
• How deforestation risks for investors can become opportunities for conservation  by Gabriel Thoumi and Peter Graham at Mongabay
• Retrosynthesis: Here It Comes by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• No, I don't believe that "Reduction in Firearm Injuries during NRA Annual Conventions" story by Andrew Gelman at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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How does fruit ripen? How did the moon form? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of February 26-March 4 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week's best science posts include new ways of looking at this year's bad flu outbreak, wound healing and archaeology myths. 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:

• Watch a wound close with the help of fat cells by Kimberley Hickok at Science 
• This Year’s Super Bad Flu Season In 20 Maps by Christie Aschwanden at FiveThirtyEight 
• 10 Breakthrough technologies 2018 at MIT Technology Review
• Hashtags and Sea Lions – Using Social Media to Break Down Pseudoarchaeology by Stephanie Halmhofer at Bones, Stones, and Books
• Scientists Have Just Created Human-Sheep Hybrids by Daniel Nelson at Science Trends
• 25 Clever Riddles For Adults And Kids Who Love Science by Juan Ramos at Science Trends
• Ripening of Fruits and Vegetables - On Ethylene and (non)-Climacteric Plants by Julie the Science Chef at Food Crumbles - The Food Science Blog
• Turmeric is BACK! The science you should have heard this week by Gaia Cantelli
• Why nutritional psychiatry is the future of mental health treatment by Joyce Cavaye at The Conversation UK
• What Happens Beyond "Absolute Hot"? by Yuen Yiu at Physics Buzz
• The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth by Shannon Hall at New Scientist
• Pluto’s Surface Changes Faster Than Earth’s, And A Subsurface Ocean Is Driving It by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
• The Ocean’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Faces Fishing Threat by Alastair Bland at News Deeply
• As biodiversity declines, so does public attention by Brandon Keim at Anthropocene 
• Arctic Transformed into Alien Landscape in Surreal Climate Change Photo by Yasmin Tayag at InverseScience
Podcast of the week: TWiEVO 28: Genetics of skin pigmentation in Africa by Sarah Tishkoff, Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello at This Week in Evolution
• 5-Minute Geology: Fire 'n' Ice Edition by Dana Hunter at Rosetta Stones
• Language Shapes What we See by Rose Hendricks
• The balance between bibliometric and societal impact by Kai Chan at Elephant in the Lab

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