What shape is the Universe? How are the Australian bushfires affecting predator-prey dynamics? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of Jan 6 - 12 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In the week's best and brightest from the world of science news, discover the new two-person MRIs that are pushing the bounds of neuroimaging, and delve deeper into the Australian bushfires with scientists' takes on the crisis. 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?

• Trippy maths program could help figure out the shape of the universe by Donna Lu for New Scientist.

New math program explores the potentially fractal nature of the Universe.
Credit: Henry Segerman via New Scientist (CC-BY-ND)

• Identifying stellar chemistry through Infrared astronomy by Brian Koberlein for Forbes.
• This Is How The Universe Changes With Every New Year That Passes by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
• Bushfires and climate change communication: Between amplification and attenuation by Brigitte Nerlich for Making Science Public.
• Hunter, hunted: when the world catches on fire, how do predators respond? by Euan Ritchie, Ayesha Tulloch, Dale Nimmo, Tim Doherty, William Geary at The Conversation UK.
• Killing gods: The last hope for the world’s rarest reptile by Jeremy Hance for Mongabay.com.
• Trump Administration Moves to Axe Consideration of Climate Change for Federal Projects by Marianne Lavelle for KQED Science.
• The story of magma near Mayotte by NickCarne at CosmosMagazine.
• Can GM trees please? by Ian Connellan for Cosmos Magazine.
• Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) by Emily Wilson, Chris Adams and Natalie Fey at Picture It Chemistry.
• Lack of snow is, ironically, helping snow geese by Elizabeth Preston for Hakai magazine.
• The future of supplementation goes viral by YongGuang Jiang for Immunobites.
• MRI scanners built for two push limits of neuroimaging by Kelly Servick for Science magazine.
• Preparing for an especially busy term by Amy Dalal at This is what a computer scientist looks like.

Check back next week for more great picks.