Could we use trees to generate electricity? Have we really found an alien protein inside a meteorite? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of Mar 9 - 15 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's coverage of the best from the world of science news, celebrate the earliest equinox since 1896 and inform yourself further about the coronavirus from scientific, reliable sources. 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?

• Researchers are sitting on tech that could transform trees into power generators by Anne Quito for Quartz Africa.

  

  Could we engineer trees that generate electricity? We might already have the technology, but there are ethical questions still to be answered.
  Credit:  Gawain Jones Photo via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0)

• Improving software infrastructure in multidisciplinary research by Jacqueline Kory-Westlund for Elephant in the Lab.
• Have we really found an alien protein inside a meteorite? by Leah Krane for New Scientist.
• The evasive behavior of blue whales by Chris Baraniuk for Hakai Magazine.
• Celebrate the earliest equinox since 1896 this March, thanks to science by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
• Time scales, viral and human by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• 7 reasons why it’s hard to control your coronavirus anxiety by Sharon Begley for STAT news.
• Some advice for PhD students and their mentors in the time of coronavirus by Meghan Duffy at  Dynamic Ecology.
• An interview with the man who saw the pandemic coming by Kevin Berger for Nautilus magazine.
• COVID-19: Research and development on therapeutic agents and vaccines by Marie Benz for Medical Research.
• Coronavirus testing is starting to get better — but it has a long way to go by Matthew Herper for STAT news.
• Episode 79: Need to Know: COVID19 with Virologist Andy Pekosz by Nina Martin at Public Health United.

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