Why is play good for kids? Where is the new planet humans could live on? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of September 10-16 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week's best science posts include cute robots, a bizarre beauty treatment that Kim Kardashian regrets and a new way of looking at time. 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:

• Food and Cancer: Where Does Our Collective Fascination Come From? by Gaia Cantelli 
• Scientists engineer a powerful new weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria by Jon Cohen at Science

How scientists developed the new antibiotic 

• Five Proven Benefits Of Play by Anya Kamenetz at KQED Mindshift
• Liberals and conservatives are narcissistic in different ways, study finds by Eric W. Dolan at PsyPost
• A new map reveals the causes of forest loss worldwide by Laurel Hamers at ScienceNews
• Searching for Life on Mars through the Lens of Greenland by Marco Tedesco at Scientific Amerian Observations
• The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Could Be "Highly Habitable" by Adam Mann at Live Science
• How long would it take to deflate the Earth's atmosphere out into space? by Jillian Scudder at Astroquizzical
• Forget Everything You Think You Know About Time by Brian Gallagher at Nautilus Magazine
• Saving Jack Skinner by Romeo Vitelli at Providentia
• Vampire facial update: Kardashian has regrets, others maybe infections by Peter Knoepfler at The Niche
• On the hunt for a silent salamander-killer by Benji Jones at Mongabay
• Venom resistance in kingsnakes by Andrew Durso at Life is Short, but Snakes are Long
• Turmoil erupts over expulsion of member from leading evidence-based medicine group by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky at STAT News
• Podcast of the week: Undiscovered Presents: I, Robovie. Sept 11, 2018 by Annie Minoff, Elah Feder and Christopher Intagliata at Science Friday

Check back next week for more great picks!