When were dark matter and energy created? How do we learn from watching others? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of September 3-9 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week, the best science posts include what we can learn from dolphins walking on their tails, how maths helps learn music, and watching eagles online. 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:

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• Pulsar Discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell Wins $3-Million Breakthrough Prize by Lee Billings at Scientific American
• Opportunity rover still MIA as dust settles on Mars by John Timmer at Ars Technica
• Podcast of the week: Could a new force of nature reveal the universe's dark side? by Ian Sample and Graihagh Jackson with Andrew Pontzen and Jessie Shelton at Guardian Science Weekly
• Ask Ethan: When Were Dark Matter And Dark Energy Created? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• Earthquake And Typhoon Trigger Massive Landslides On Northern Island Of Japan by David Bressan at Forbes
• ‘It was a foretold tragedy’—fire destroys Brazil’s National Museum and its prized science collections by Gretchen Vogel and Herton Escobar at Science
• Super altruists (who’ve donated a kidney to a stranger) show heightened empathic brain activity when witnessing strangers in pain by Christian Jarrett at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• The Amygdala And Observational Learning by Kay M. Tye & Stephen A. Allsop at Science Trends
• The United Nations Is Considering Banning High-Seas Fishing by Marcus Woo at Hakai Magazine
• The conservation lesson of dolphins who walked on their tails by Brandon Keim at Anthropocene
• Ocean Acidification And Its Impact On Marine Environments by Xizhi Huang at Science Trends
• 5 Best Eagle Cams: Watch Live Eagle Feeds From Florida To Washington by Daniel Nelson at Science Trends 
• Adventures in Teaching: The Syllabus is Never Done by Dana Wanzer
• To Raise Confident, Independent Kids, Some Parents Are Trying To 'Let Grow'  by Deena Prichip at KQED Mindshift
• What Does Fluency Without Understanding Look Like? by Dan Meyer at dy/dan
• How Math Helped Me Learn Early Music by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity
• Do we need an Open Science coalition? by Jon Tennant at Elephant in the Lab
• The Reproducibility Project by Alex S. Woodell at OncoBites
• Acupuncture versus breast cancer treatment-induced joint pain: Spinning another bad study by David Gorski at Science-Based Medicine
• A.I. to Identify Treatment Drivers for Colorectal Cancer by Alan Kotok at Science and Enterprise
• Nephro360: Virtual Reality & Gaming by Samira Farouk at Renal Fellow Network
• Why do people talk politics online? Because they don’t care what you think by Nils Gustafsson, Annika Fredén, Emma A. Bäck and Hanna Bäck at The Conversation
• The Backfire Effect — why you can never win an argument online at Book of Joe
• Trump adds physicist Will Happer, climate science critic, to White House staff by Hannah Northey at Science

Check back next week for more great picks!