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:
- 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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