What does the surface of the sun look like? Why are clinical trials so complicated? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 27 - May 3 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's edition of the best and the brightest from the world of science news, find out whether AI could be the key to predicting floods, and why the search for a corona cure is raising a whole host of science ethics questions. 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?

• Sun in high-res by Gianluigi Filippelli at Doc Madhattan.



New high-res pictures from University of Central Lancashire and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center show the sun like never before.
Credit: University of Central Lancashire/NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (Public Domain)

• Astronomers observe inner rims of protoplanetary disks around young massive stars by Sci-News.com.
• Why are clinical trials so complicated? by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• Can AI predict the next big flood before it happens? by Christina Marvin for Massive Science.
• Infect volunteers with Covid-19? A proposal lays bare a minefield of issues by Helen Branswell for STAT news.
• The rise of "Health Entertainment" to convey lifesaving messages in the COVID-19 pandemic by Maya Adam and Jennifer Gates for Scientific American. Featured video by Stanford Medicine.
• Covid-19's future: small outbreaks, monster wave, or ongoing crisis by Sharon Begley for STAT news.
• Galileo’s lessons for living and working through a plague by Hannah Marcus for Scientific American.
• How coronavirus is affecting your dreams – and what to do about it by Rowan Hooper for New Scientist.
• Unconventional ways to produce a rash by Mariana Pacheco Blanco for ImmunoBites.
• Preparing for the next spill by Ryan Stuart for Hakai magazine.
• The art of turning fish into leather by Chloe Williams for Hakai magazine.
• It’s okay to not do research right now by Matthew Partridge at ErrantScience.
• Sintering advanced ceramics membranes for safe solid state batteries in just 10 seconds by Michael Berger at Nanowerk.

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