How does saving nature pay off? Which movies do time travel right? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of July 23-29 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week's best science stories include a poisonous item that sounds like it's straight out of a murder mystery, the latest news on Alzheimer's disease, and a podcast with a brilliant story about a pet snail. But there are many other topics touched on in 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:

Captive-bred baby giant pandas in the 

captive-breeding facility in Chengdu province, China.

Image credit: Joshua Doubek/CC-BY-SA 3.0 

• Pandanomics: What Is Giant Panda Conservation Worth? Billions Every Year by GrrlScientist at Forbes
• How we discovered three poisonous books in our university library by Jakob Povl Holck and Kaare Lund Rasmussen at ScienceNordic
• Milky Way’s black hole provides long-sought test of Einstein’s general relativity by Alexandra Witze at Nature
• Ask Ethan: Which Movies Get The Science Of Time Travel Right? by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang! 
• Scientists Create Atomic Solid-State Drive With Potentially 1000x More Memory Than Conventional Devices by Alex Bolano at Science Trends
• Food cravings peak twice nightly, in countries all around the world by Frankie Schembri at Science
• Biogen and Eisai: Let the Alzheimer's Arguing Commence by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
• Podcast of the week: Loneliness: Stories about finding friends by Cindy Joe and Patrick Honner at The Story Collider
• Acrobotics: a revolutionary movement by Cathal O’Connell at Cosmos

Credit: Boston Dynamics

Check back next week for more great picks!