Where are planets born? How can lasers counteract gravity? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 11 - 17 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's digest of the best from the world of science news, find out the good news about how humans make coronavirus antibodies, and the less good news about coronavirus resurgence in countries easing lockdown. 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?

• Where planets are born by Gianluigi Filippelli at Doc Madhattan.

T-Tauri stars with their accompanying protoplanetary discs. A solar system in the making!
Credit: Garufi, A., Avenhaus, H et al., Astrophysics (2020) doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201936946

• International day of light edition: Beam me up, Scotty: How lasers can counteract gravity by Physics Central.
• CERN physicists create atoms of pionic helium by Sci-News.com.
• Palliative care needs tweaking in the coronavirus era by Richard Leiter for STAT news.
• Pfizer says efficacy of its Duchenne gene therapy outweighs side effects by Matthew Herper for STAT news.
• Trump unveils audacious plan to develop Covid-19 vaccine by end of 2020 by Lev Facher for STAT news.
• Good news on the human immune response to the coronavirus by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine.
• From Black Death to fatal flu, past pandemics show why people on the margins suffer most by Lizzie Wade for Science.
• COVID-19 resurges in reopened countries; Wuhan sees first cluster in a month by Beth Marie Mole for Ars Technica.
• More than decomposers: fungi influence the recovery of pollutants in the environment by Mary Sabuda for Sciworthy.
• A Philippine village on lockdown delivers nearly 300 turtle hatchlings to sea by Erwin M. Mascariñas for Mongabay.com.
• Fossil footprints a snapshot of past behaviour by Natalie Parletta for Cosmos magazine.



More than 400 footprints are preserved in petrified volcanic ash from humans between 6000 and 19,000 years ago.
Credit: Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce

• Guest post: four drafts of acknowledgments by Greg Crowther for Dynamic Ecology.

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