How many chemicals are in the foods you eat? How do black widow spiders choose a mate? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of June 29 - July 5 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best and brightest from the world of science news, find out how fish farming is contributing to antibiotic resistance and explore the evolution of the space suit. 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?

• Chemicals and foods: A little perspective by Corby Vorland at Nutritional Science.

Your food is full of chemicals! I mean, it has to be, otherwise it wouldn't be food.
Credit: Unknown (Public Domain)

• Antibiotics in fish farming create resistance and are an animal welfare disaster. It’s time for a change by Lauren Sara McKee for Massive Science.
• Air quality is worsening for half of the world’s people by Brian Palmer for NRDC.
• The evolution of the spacesuit by Never Trust An Atom.
• A bird’s epic migration stuns scientists and wins online fans by Rebecca Ratcliffe for Wired.
• Some black widow spiders choose mates carefully — others just eat them by Hannah Thomasy for Massive Science.
• Desert microbes mine for water by Lesley Evans Ogden for Eos.



In another instance of life imitating art, Dune-esque microbes mine the desert for water.
Credit: Jocelyne DiRuggiero (Public Domain)

• Colliding black holes may have created a surprising flare of light by Emily Conover for Science News magazine.
• An elemental problem with the Sun by Ken Croswell for Knowable Magazine via Scientific American.
• Soap bubbles can split light into otherworldly branching streams by Down Here on Earth for New Scientist.
• Swine flu strain with human pandemic potential increasingly found in pigs in China by Jon Cohen for Science.
• Pfizer and BioNTech's first vaccine candidate by Derek Lowe for Science Translational Medicine.
• Why openly available abstracts are important - overview of the current state of affairs by Aaron Tay, Bianca Kramer and Ludo Waltman for F1000 Blogs.

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