What even are birds, really? How could Fool's Gold have helped spark life on earth? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of Sept 21 - 27 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

This weeks best from the world of science sees a resurgence in Covid-19 news as several places around the world prepare for a second wave. Luckily, Michael Tabb is here to tell us what we learned from studying isolation in researchers in Antarctica. Good lockdown reading! 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?

• Birds are just a bunch of different dinosaurs we lump together an interview with Jingmai O’Connor by Maddie Bender for Massive Science.

To some taxonomists, the group 'Birds' is just a convenient grouping of a lot of different types of dinosaurs.
Credit: Stefan W. via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• Podcast: Birds Flutter Their Feathers To Send A Message by Alexa Lim, Valentina Gomez-Bahamón, and Christopher Clark for Science Friday at WNYC Studios.
• Could "Fools' Gold" have helped assemble the building blocks of life? by Marcos Jusino-Maldonado for Sciworthy.
• The accidental tree killers by Stephanie Pain for Knowable magazine.
• 2020 Road from Paris: Climate ambition is not canceled by Anjali Jaiswal, Madhura Joshi and Marie McNamara for NRDC.
• Decades-old theory on how ears work is wrong by Josseline Ramos-Figueroa for Massive Science.
• Why is it so hard to study Covid-related smell loss? by Sara Harrison for WIRED.
• The Universe Knows Right from Wrong by Philip Goff for Nautilus magazine.
• What research in Antarctica tells us about the science of isolation by Michael Tabb for Scientific American.
• Something to sneeze at: Hunger-induced sneezing? by Susan Lubejko for NeuWrite San Diego.
• So that’s what the claustrum does! by Joel Frohlich for Knowing Neurons.
• New research uncovers neural and genetic connections to romantic love in newlyweds by Eric W. Dolan for PsyPost.
• Podcast: Orgasms: Come for the Science by Wendy Zukerman and Gimlet at Science Vs.
• Is artificial intelligence worsening COVID-19's toll on Black Americans? by Rod McCullom for Massive Science.
• Can fitness bands predict COVID-19 infection before you show symptoms? Probably not by Matthew Bomkamp for Massive Science.
• How the PCR test works and why it’s such a critical weapon against Covid-19 by Siouxsie Wiles for Sciblogs.
• Laboratory methods behind the polio vaccine discovery by Gina Misra for Sciworthy.
• Watch white blood cells swim with microscopic ‘paddles’ by Lucy Hicks for Science magazine.
• Covid on the brain by Lauren at A Short Scientist.
• ALMA sees complex stellar winds around Red Giant stars by Sci-News.com.
• The short weird life—and potential afterlife—of quantum radar by Adrian Cho for Science magazine.
• Data Sonification: Sounds from around the Milky Way by Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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