How can you get involved in science? Why can vampires handle candles but not the sun? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of March 26-April 1 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

How we do in school is less tied to our genes than has recently been suggested, which may be just as well as infertility treatments are removing one element of human evolution. 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:

Come on, smile, make my brain light up!
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• Smile! Your dog’s brain will light up in response by Virginia Morell at Science
• Blue's Clues Into How Children Watch Television by Eva Au at Dudley Describes
• Participating in science: a citizen’s guide by Kim Stephens at Dispatches from the Field
• Travel To India: Science of Mahendi (Henna) body art by Trina Espinoza at Ms. Beautyphile
• The Quantum Physics Of Vampires by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both by Jennifer Chu via at MIT Technology Review
• A Galaxy Without Dark Matter by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz
• Cancer Vaccine Found To Cure Lymphoma in 97% Of  Mice: To Begin Human Testing by Mohendra Shivnarain at Science Trends
• Science Is Getting Us Closer to the End of Infertility by Jason Pontin at Wired
• Much Ado About 3.7% of the Variation: Genes and Educational Attainment by Dan Graur at Judge Starling
• How your brain is wired to just say ‘yes’ to opioids by Paul R. Sanberg and Samantha Portis at The Conversation US 
• Bioengineered plants help defend against Ebola and other deadly diseases at National Science Foundation
• Engineered Fungus is a New Source for Polymer Building Blocks by Kevin Reed at Chembites
• Explainer: What’s behind the rabies outbreak in SA? at SciBraai
• Humans, the non-sleeping primates by Rosa García-Verdugo at Mapping Ignorance
• Why laughter in the lab can help your science by Amber Dance at Nature
• What is the impact of retractions in science? by Ivan Oransky at Elephant in the Lab 
• Along with the NIH budget hike comes a less welcome large hike in the budget for quackery for the NCCIH by Orac at Respectful Insolence
• The moral hazard of quantitative social science: Causal identification, statistical inference, and policy by Andrew Gelman at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Check back next week for more great picks!