What's the good news on cancer? Should we colonise Mars? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 7-13 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

This week's best science posts include more bad news for our oceans, a rethink of how we look at genetics, and a way to rewire our brains. 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:

• US Cancer Death Rate Continues to Decline by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine
• It’s the End of the Gene As We Know It by Ken Richardson at Nautilus
• Podcast of the week: Should We Colonize Mars? Michael Robinson talks to Lucianne Walkowicz at Time to Eat the Dogs
• Mainland China Was Struck By Large Tsunami A Thousand Years Ago by David Bressan at Forbes

Tsunami aftermath in Aceh, Indonesia, December 2004.
Credit Wikipedia/AusAID CC BY 2.0.AUSAID

• Ocean warming projected to accelerate more than four-fold over next 60 years: Study  by Mike Gaworecki at Mongabay
• Endangered bluefin tuna sold for record fee in Tokyo market by Harry Baker at Marine Madness
• Guest post: Alice shows magic tricks and explains refraction of light in water by Alice Langhans at Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching
• Shredded Star Leads to Important Black Hole Discovery at Chandra X-ray Observatory
• All Sand on Earth Could Be Made of Star Stuff by Shannon Hall at Scientific American
• From toxin to tonic: improving cone snail toxin stability for medical use by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• When Recycling Pays the Bills ... and When It Doesn't by Jessica Placzek at KQED News 
• Is there space for nature in man-made jungle? by Anna Filyushkina at Envirobites
• Observant Crows Make Weighty Decisions by Mary Bates at Psychology Today
• Researchers Tried To Explore Why “Stereotype Threat” Harms Performance, But Found It Didn’t Harm Performance At All by Jesse Singal at British Psychological Society Research Digest
• Neuroscientists Uncover Way to Restore Cortical Plasticity in Mature Brain at Sci-News.com
• How fixing particle colliders’ discarded data problem could bring us a better internet by Greg Fish at World of Weird Things
• Top 10 Most Embarrassing Data Breaches by Jack Foster at Innovation and Technology Today
• New year, new trends: What to watch for in healthcare in 2019 (Part 2) by Atif Kukaswadia at Public Health Perspectives
• Nature’s first article: Huxley on Goethe by Brigitte Nehrlich at Making Science Public
• For minority students, the pipeline to an M.D. is leaky. Here’s how I managed to make it through by Paula Magee at STAT
• Trump falsely claims ‘drug prices declined in 2018’ by Casey M. Ross at STAT 

Check back next week for more great picks!