How pseudoscientific are products from Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP? What's the surprising way the US-China trade war might turn deadly? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of October 8-14 2018 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

This week's best science news includes insights from space, including on how real Star Wars is and exciting new health prospects from gene editing and magic mushrooms. 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:

This artist's concept shows a hypothetical planet
covered in water around the binary star system of
Kepler-35A and B. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

• Is it possible to have a planet orbit two stars, like Tatooine? by Jillian Scudder at Astroquizzical  
• ALMA Discovers New Type of Stellar Collision at Sci-News.com
• Ask Ethan: Why Is The Black Hole Information Loss Paradox A Problem? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang
• Pluto's surprising dunes by Aditya Rup at Earth Magazine
• How NASA is Predicting Crop Yields with Satellites by Dusty Langdon at Innovation & Tech Today
• I reviewed all 161 of GOOP’s wellness products for pseudoscience. Here’s what I found. by Jen Gunter at Dr Jen Gunter
• Homo Sapiens May Have Inherited Defenses Against RNA Viruses From Neanderthals by Daniel Nelson at Science Trends
• Gene Editing: Freely You Have Received, Freely Give by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• How orgasm faces differ between people from Eastern and Western cultures by Beth Mole at Ars Technica
• The average person can recognize 5000 faces by Frankie Schembri at Science
• Shame may feel awful but new cross-cultural evidence shows it is fundamental to our survival.
  by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Psychedelic mushrooms are closer to medicinal use by Doug Powell at Barfblog
• Kadcyla: The Next Standard in Breast Cancer Therapy by Taylor A. Johnson at Oncobites
• A lethal game of chicken: the next trade war with China could be a matter of life and death by Robert I. Field at The Inquirer
• Baaaaad News For Fish by Marissa Land for Hakai Magazine
• Science and the Supreme Court: Cases to Watch in 2018 by Sara Reardon for Nature 
• Joining forces against the urbanisation of hunger by Albane Gaspard at Urban Food Futures
• Leveraging the Lore of 'Dungeons and Dragons' to Motivate Students to Read and Write by Paul Darvasi at KQED Mindshift
• The pursuit of science for art's sake by Hussain Ather at Heuristic
• The bioethics of wildlife intervention by Elvina Yau at Mongabay

Check back next week for more great picks!