Should you eat raw cookie dough? What will be 2019's biggest breakthrough? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of December 17-23 2018 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

The new film Aquaman is giving ocean scientists plenty to talk about, and we're gradually probing the mysteries of space. But there are other important 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:

Tasty! But can you eat it raw?
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• It's Probably OK to Eat Raw Cookie Dough — As Long As You're Smart About It by Brian Zikmund-Fisher at The Crux
• The Science of Aquaman: The Complete Anthology by Andrew David Thaler at Southern Fried Science
• 2019’s Science Breakthrough Of The Year Will Show Us A Black Hole’s Event Horizon by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
• Supermassive black holes still dark and mysterious by Jens Wilkinson at It Ain't Magic
• Planets probably lurk in the gaps of these stellar disks. But how did they form so fast?  by Dan Clery at Science
• BioSignatures by Damond Benningfield at StarDate
• The physiological stress response is larger in the morning than evening by Emma Young at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• We Have Given People Amyloid Disease by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline

Check back next week for more great picks!