What's the science of perfect pizza? How did life emerge on Earth? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of July 2-8 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Two of this week's best science picks are a little influenced by drugs, with the US authorities approving the country's first drug derived from marijuana, while we also get the lowdown on addiction. 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:

• The physics of perfect pizza by Phil Dooley at Cosmos Magazine
• Big Bangs and Squibs: A Physicist Turns Pyrotechnician for the Day by Rebecca Thompson at Physics Buzz
• In a first, astronomers witness the birth of a planet from gas and dust by Dan Clery at Science
• What was it Like When the Universe was Inflating? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang 
• FDA Approves First Drug Derived from Marijuana by Nora D. Volkow at Scientific American
• Scientists finally have an explanation for the 'Gaia puzzle' by James Dyke and Tim Lenton at The Conversation
• Barriers Are Meant To Be Broken by Taylor Richardson at Stories in Science
• Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn by Basten Gokkon at Mongabay
• There are a few things environmentalists actually do agree on by Nathanael Johnson at Mother Jones 
• How Eating Seaweed Can Help Cows to Belch Less Methane by Judith Lewis Mernit at Yale Environment 360
• Podcast of the week part 1: Water Conservation Through Better Communication by Meghann Percy and Jennifer Adler at Kiss That World
• Podcast of the week part 2: Dirt and Development, The Second Genome by James Gallagher at Discovery
• What Is Science for? A Portfolio by D. Graham Burnett and Mark Dion at The Point Magazine
• Addiction As a Brain Disorder of Emotion Regulation at Inside the Alcoholic Brain

Check back next week for more great picks!