What do dating apps do to our brains? What are the important physics facts you probably don't know? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of July 30-August 6 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week's best science stories include even faster internet, what the latest moist Mars findings mean, and predictions of what life will be like by the end of the century. 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:

• Love at First Swipe | Your brain on dating apps by Alice Gray at Mindful of Science

• Loss, Love, and Science by Sirisha Asuri at Stories in Science
• 10 physics facts you should have learned in school but probably didn’t by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction
• 661Tbps through a single optical fiber: The mind boggles by Chris Lee for Ars Technica
• This Simple Thought Experiment Shows Why We Need Quantum Gravity by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a BangRadioactive Molecule Found in Stellar Merger Remnant at Sci-News.com
• Water On Mars, But Still No Water Martians by Lauren Parikhal at Science Summarized
• Hitting the pause button on life by Brittney Borowiec at Lateral
• New Modeling Techniques Could Be Key To Developing Antibiotics To Combat Superbugs by Alex Bolano at Science Trends
• Pharmaceutical companies are backing away from a growing threat that could kill 10 million people a year by 2050 by Charlotte Hu at Business Insider
• Crowdfunding for unproven stem cell procedures spreads misinformation by Jeremy Snyder, Leigh Turner, and Valorie A. Crooks at STAT
• Dr. Kristi Funk: Angelina Jolie’s surgeon is spreading misinformation about breast cancer by Orac at Respectful Insolence
• Podcast of the week part 1: Epidemiology (DISEASES) by Alie Ward and Steven Ray Morris, with Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann-Updyke at Ologies
• Podcast of the week part 2: Life in the year 2100 by Chris Smith and Georgia Mills at The Naked Scientists
• Babies Learn About Eye Contact Early in Life by Stefanie Rosado at Sciworthy
• Snake Eyes: The Fear That Built Your Brain by James R. Howe VI at NeuWrite San Diego
• The Centrality of Character to Storytelling in the Brain by Lisa M. P. Munoz at Cognitive Neuroscience Society
• Composing a Narrative by Sarah Kearns at Annotated Science
• The president names a science adviser by William Hooke at Living on the Real World
• Trophy-hunting foes sue to shut down Trump wildlife board by Jonathan Stempel at Reuters 
• Researchers not thrilled to see their work cited by Trump car mileage proposal by Maxine Joselow at Science
• Droughts, heatwaves and floods: How to tell when climate change is to blame by Quirin Schiermeier at Nature
• Downpour in a dry land by Krista Langlois at The Last Word on Nothing 
• The science of thunderstorms – thunder, lightning, and chemical reactions by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest 

• On the Limits of Any Scientism by Bernard Wills at Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

Check back next week for more great picks!