Space is beautiful, mind-bogglingly enormous - but also kind of funky-smelling on one of our notorious solar system neighbours. These subjects, a number of intriguing life hacks, 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:
- Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars by Leah Crane at New Scientist
- It's Official: Uranus Smells Like Farts by Kate Broome at Science Trends
- Super Earth Aliens Could Be Trapped On Their Home Planet by Brian Koberlein at Forbes
- Vitamin B6 boosts dream recall by Andrew Masterson at Cosmos Magazine
- Eating Dark Chocolate Improves Memory, Reduces Inflammation and Stress at Sci-News.com
- Podcast of the Week: Geothermal Activity and Earthquakes by Roland Pease at The Science Hour
- Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People by Jim Robbins at Yale Environment 360
- When Whales and Humans Talk by Krista Langlois at Hakai Magazine
- Poachers versus Poop by John R. Platt at Extinction Countdown
- Better than bottled: How a Dutch company uses bison to maintain pure drinking water by Joshua Parfitt at Mongabay
- New rule could force EPA to ignore major human health studies by Warren Cornwall at Science
- Study: States with weak gun laws put neighboring states at risk by Kim Krisberg at The Pump Handle
- I Used To Be a Holistic Nutritionist by Denby Royal at Science-Based Medicine
- Shoebox-sized lab can diagnose infectious diseases from a drop of blood by Helen Branswell at STAT
- Inchworm: How This Caterpillar (Turned Moth) Inspired An New Exercise Workout by Daniel Nelson at Science Trends
- Building for your brain by Jon Farrow at The Thoughtful Pharoah
- A Microbial Utopia: Cheese by by Nathan Jayne, Amanda Alker, and Nathalie Delherbe at Small Things Considered
- The chemistry of tulips and tulip fingers by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
- When the Stress of the PhD Meet The Anxiety of the Visa: On International Postgraduate Studies, Financial Anxieties, and Everything Else That Scares Me by Alex Fitzpatrick at Animal Archaeology
- Are the robots coming for our (research) jobs? at The Thesis Whisperer
- Aubrey de Grey: The chromatic number of the plane is at least 5 by Gil Kalai at Combinatorics and more
Check back next week for more great picks!