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

Check back next week for more great picks!