How is the coronavirus mutating, and into what? How could mistrust of a vaccine hinder immunity? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of July 13 - 19 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about the colours and concerns behind modern tattooing, and explore how living with uncertainty, scientific and otherwise, can help us to have a more realistic expectation of what is knowable and unknowable. 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?

• The pandemic virus is slowly mutating. But is it getting more dangerous? by Kai Kupferschmidt for Science.

A growing number of polls find so many people saying they would not get a coronavirus vaccine that its potential to shut down the pandemic could be in jeopardy.
Credit: EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr (CC-BY-ND)

• Mistrust of a coronavirus vaccine could imperil widespread immunity by Jan Hoffman for New York Times.
• Two months after infection, COVID-19 symptoms persist by John Timmer for Ars Technica.
• A tale of two clinical trials: Gene therapy for a rare disease and a vaccine for COVID-19 by Ricki Lewis for DNA Science, a PLOS Blog.
• Living with scientific uncertainty by Avi Loeb for Scientific American.
• Shy sea lions may have a better shot at survival than their rambunctious siblings by Fernanda Ruiz for Massive Science.
• Rising sea levels and river delta growth by Cosmos magazine.
• Heavy metals from open-pit mining can spread up to 30 kilometers by Rebecca Dzombak for Massive Science.
• #NationalTattooDay – Tattoo colourants and concerns by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest.
• No major nutritional differences in eggs with different shell & yolk colors by Michelle Miller, Farm Babe at AgDaily.
• Understanding quantum mechanics #4: It’s not as difficult as you think! (The Bra-Ket) by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction.
• Solar orbiter beams back its first images of the Sun by Sci-News.com.

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