What does the formation of a binary star look like? Why do some people need less sleep? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best and brightest from the world of science news, see the picture that solves a fifty-year-old chemistry question, and find out how indigenous people are breaking the law in California to preserve their ancestral way of life. 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 yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?

• ALMA captures a binary star in the act of formation by Tim Kendall at Extreme Astrophysics.

Astronomers using ALMA have obtained an extremely high-resolution image showing two disks in which young stars are growing, fed by a complex pretzel-shaped network of filaments of gas and dust.
Credit: Image - ESO via ESO.org Caption: Tim Kendall at Extreme Astrophysics (CC-BY 4.0)

• Two women completed a seven-hour spacewalk on Friday by Eric Berger for Ars Technica.
• Tomatoes, peas and several other crops grow well in simulated martian and lunar dirt by Sci-News.com.
• wowt explains: what is a cyborg? by Greg Fish at World of Weird Things.
• A fifty-year-old question about molecular structure answered with a picture by Kristopher Benke for Chembites.
• Know your brain: tourette syndrome by Neuroscientifically Challenged.
• Looking directly in the eyes engages region of the social brain by Sarah DeWeerdt at Spectrum.
• Why do some people need less sleep? It’s in their DNA by Karen Weintraub for Scientific American.
• Using oncolytic viruses to fight cancers by Payal Yokota for Oncobites.
• How many ‘Firsts’ does it take to change a system? by Athene Donald at Occam's Typewriter.
• Me, myself and I by Michael Healy at The Thesis Whisperer.
• Sultana: The girl who refused to stop learning by Sultana for Quantum Frontiers.
• Vacation’s changing tides by Fred Singer at fredsingerecology.
• These rare pigs can dig it. With a tool, that is. And moonwalk too by Mongabay.com.
• Guerrilla Gatherers by Debra Utacia Krol for Roads and Kingdoms and High Country News.

Check back next week for more great picks.