Could cosmic rays be the key to forecasting volcanic eruptions? How can we design cities so that animals and humans can coexist? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 20 - 26 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's edition of the best and the brightest from the world of science news, find out how the Hubble Space Telescope has helped contribute to our understanding of the universe in which we live, and discover how Americans have been poisoning themselves in their quest to fend off corona (hint: you should absolutely not inject yourself with disinfectant). 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?

• Are cosmic rays a key to forecasting volcanic eruptions? by Mara Johnson-Groh for Eos.

A combination of relativistic particles and artificial intelligence may provide a new way to forecast when a volcano could erupt.

Credit: Din Muhammad Sumon via Flickr (CC-BY 2.0)

• Artificial gravity protects the immune system of mice in space by It Ain't Magic.
• Gravitational waves have revealed the first unevenly sized black hole pair by Emily Conover for Science News Magazine.
• A day (and night) in the life of an observational astronomer by Rosanna Tilbrook for Astrobites.
• The most important image ever taken by NASA’s Hubble space telescope by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.



NASA's deep-field imaging and its later iterations has taught us much about the universe we live in.
Credit: NASA and the European Space Agency (Public Domain)

• On National DNA Day, scientists are trying to take the colonialism out of genetics by Farah Qaiser for Massive Science.
• To protect black Americans from the worst impacts of COVID-19, release comprehensive racial data by Joia Crear-Perry and Michael McAfee for Scientific American.
• Can't we all just co-exist? by Chloe Schmidt at Pineapples and Whales.
• The wonderful, transcendent life of an odd-nosed monkey by Jude Isabella for Hakai magazine.
• Do crustaceans feel pain? by Whitney Kroschel for Envirobites.
• People are dying of coronavirus because we’re too slow at clinical research by Matthew Herper for STAT news.
• Covid-19 is pulling the plug on clean energy jobs by Emily Pontecorvo for Wired magazine.
• The order of battle by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• Black carbon is supercharging El Niño by Micheal Allen for Hakai magazine.
• The science behind how coronavirus tests work by Jeffery Del Viscio for Scientific American. 
• Americans are poisoning themselves while trying to kill the coronavirus by Beth Mole for Ars Technica.

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