Where does gold come from? Why are researchers teaching computers to fear? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 6 - May 12, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's ScienceSeeker picks, discover how Swiss cheese can be used to solve maths problems and why you should avoid giving people bad news if you want to be popular.  ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts of the week 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?

• Scientists teach computers fear—to make them better drivers by Matthew Hutson for Science magazine.

  

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• “Shooting the messenger” is a psychological reality – share bad news and people will like you less by Matthew Warren via BPS Research Digest.
• LATE is a newly defined brain disorder that mimics the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease by Monica Javidnia for Massive Science.
• A scientist tries to read a book, and is confused by the lack of subheadings by María Elisa Terrón for Massive Science.
• Astronomers spot extremely rare hydrogen-cloaked type Ia supernova by Sci-News.com.
• Much of the universe’s gold may come from spinning stars collapsing into black holes by Emily Conover for Science News.
• Cosmology’s biggest conundrum is a clue, not a controversy by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a bang.
• Switching out of fossil fuel feedstocks by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• The serendipity of Swiss cheese by Evelyn Lamb for Roots of Unity at Scientific American blogs.

Check back next week for more great picks!