While we are learning more about how the moist warmth of a sauna is good for us, we have also discovered that the fact we live in cold climates seems to have given humans migraines. Also: contact lenses that turn eyes into lasers! Yes, really! These subjects 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:
Sweat out those toxins!
Credit: Visit Lakeland used via Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0 licenceSauna Bathing Reduces Risk of Stroke, New Study Shows at Sci-News.com- How is it that in 2018 Stanislaw Burzynski is still preying on desperate cancer patients? (Update) by Orac at Respectful Insolence
- Cancer Sequencing Hype And Reality by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
- People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result by Jessica Hamzelou at New Scientist
- Brains of men with autism have some ‘female’ patterns by Rachel Zamzow at Spectrum
- Wearable device accurately scans brains in moving people by Nicole Wetsman at Spectrum
- On caring for suicidal patients: A psychiatrist reflects by Jennifer Huber at Stanford Medicine
- The 100 Billion Dollar-Euro Question: Is There A Placebo Effect In Medicine Outside Drug Trials? by Paul Enck and Sibylle Klosterhalfen at Science Trends
- Podcast: What Does Your Dog Really Think About You? by Alexa Lim and Gregory Berns at Science Friday
- Podcast: Echochambers, Organic Solar Cells, Self-Cleaning Coating, Who's That Noisy by Steven Novella, Jay Novella, Bob Novella, Evan Bernstein and Cara Santa Maria at Skeptics Guide to the Universe
- EU Decides To Ban Major Insecticides That Harm Bees by Daniel Nelson at Science Trends
- An endangered animal thrives in a novel ecosystem by Brandon Keim at Anthropocene
- Brazilian Salamanders: Rare, Beautiful and Endangered by Pedro Peloso at National Geographic Wildlife Blog
- Warmer winters increasing risk of avalanches in the Himalayas, studies find by Neha Jain at Mongabay
- Australia to invest $379 million to protect the Great Barrier Reef by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay
- Friends to Foes: When a Symbiont Becomes a Parasite by Osama Alian at Sciworthy
- The Birds that Live with Lava by Erin McKittrick at Hakai Magazine
- The Intertidal Architects of the Coast by Amorina Kingdon at Hakai Magazine
- Microfluidics from LEGO bricks by Jennifer Chu at MIT News
- Scottish Scientists Just Made a Contact Lens That Lets You Shoot Lasers from Your Eyes by Stephen Skolnick at Physics Buzz
- The Most Important Equation In The Universe by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang!
- Astronomers Spot Helium on Exoplanet for First Time by Alexandra Witze at Nature
- Federal appeals court hears CRISPR patent dispute by Jon Cohen at Science
- Building Thinking Skills to Help Students Access Their Best Work by Katrina Schwartz at Mindshift
- "We continuously increased the number of animals until statistical significance was reached to support our conclusions" . . . I think this is not so bad, actually! by Andrew Gelman at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Good Intentions Do Not Always Mean Good Policy by Scott Fridkin at Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention
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