Are we living in the dawn of a new Age? How can plasma help stop climate change? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 20 - May 26, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best from the world of science news, find out how the new deep-space telescope Gaia is shaping future space missions, and browse the many excellent articles this week covering the latest on climate change. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourselves, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• Anthropocene now: influential panel votes to recognize Earth’s new epoch by Meera Subramanian for Nature.

Sadly, this is not the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Credit: Maryland GovPics via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• We broke the atmosphere; Here's a way we can start to fix it by Rob Jackson and Pep Canadell for Scientific American.
• New plasma findings could combat climate change by David Kelly for HeadStuff.
• Plastic poisons ocean bacteria that produce 10% of the world’s oxygen and prop up the marine food chain by Philippa Kearney at the Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies blog.
• Rewilding tropical forests: dung is the key by Fred Singer at Fred's Ecology and Environmental Tales
• Keto diet as cancer treatment? by Matt Paysour for NutriBites.
• For migrating songbirds, ‘baby shark’ is more than just an annoying tune by Shreya Dasgupta for Mongabay.com.
• The baffling case of the belugas that won’t bounce back by Amorina Kingdon for Hakai magazine.
• Midnight sun could keep predatory fish out of the Arctic by Kiona N. Smith for Hakai magazine.
• The Polycystic Sisterhood by Abigail Meloa for Scientific American.
• Can we revive empathy in our selfish world? by Jamil Zaki for Nautilus magazine.
• A new trial of an ancient rhetorical trick finds it can make you wiser by David Robson via BPS Research Digest.
• How Gaia is already shaping our interstellar adventures by Ian O'Neill at astroengine.com.

Check back next week for more great picks!