Is it possible to travel faster than light? What's the likelihood of intelligence beyond Earth? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 18 - 24 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's cream-of-the-crop from science journalism around the world, explore the increasingly urgent issues surrounding video surveillance and facial recognition, and discover the ancient Australian megafauna that once roamed the smallest continent. 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?

• Is faster-than-light travel possible? by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction.

If quantum theory is fundamental, the problem with travelling faster than light is the teensy issue of destroying the universe with negative energy. The answer could be wormholes.
Credit: Jason Brennan via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• The problem with theories of everything by Greg Fish at World of Weird Things.
• Astronomer uses Bayesian statistics to weigh likelihood of complex life and intelligence beyond Earth by Sci-News.com.
  Lessons from the military for Covid-19 health care workers by Zachary Johannesson, Gregory Galeazzi, and Samuel Lyon for STAT news.
• Injecting biomedical electronics for monitoring and therapy of body organs by Michael Berger for Nanowerk.
• Facial-recognition technology needs more regulation by Scientific American.
• The difference between N95s, surgical masks and cloth masks by George Alba for Massachusetts General Research Institute blog.
• Focus Covid-19 testing on nursing home patients and workers by Donald H. Taylor, Jr. for STAT news.
• Together, alone: The car as shelter in the pandemic by Christine Hauser and Judith Levitt for the New York Times.
• There may be a unique coronavirus immune response by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• Megafauna fossils found in tropical Australia by Natalie Parletta for Cosmos magazine.

2.5m tall kangaroos, giant lizards and 7m long freshwater crocodiles - Australia's wildlife used to be even more unique than it is today.
Credit: R Bargiel, V Konstantinov, A Atuchin and S Hocknull (2020), Queensland Museum

• Living with sea otters next door by Brad Badelt for Hakai magazine.
• Congratulations and thank you Jess Wade for 1000 new biographies by Duncan Hill at Wiki Loves Scientists.
• A raspberry of an idea: How to do inspired science as a group by Rachel Germain for Dynamic Ecology.

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