Do we really have free will? How are sperm helping to make mini-motors? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of Oct 5 - 11 2020 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's edition of the cream-of-the-crop from the world of science news, we've got the biggest stories from this year's Nobel prizes, and the latest on the coronavirus pandemic. Find out how having neanderthal DNA might make coronavirus more dangerous, and discover the new tests that give results in just five minutes. 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?

• You don’t have free will, but don’t worry. by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction.

"If you did one thing, there is no evidence you could have done something else because, well, you didn’t." 
Credit: A.Davey via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• Sperm-powered micro trucks by Michael Berger for Nanowerk.
• How does coffee wake us up (and why is it addictive)? by Mark Jefferson Plata at FlipScience.
• Neanderthal DNA may be COVID risk by Christopher Intagliata for Scientific American.
• New test detects coronavirus in just 5 minutes by Robert F. Service for Science magazine.
• Americans are drinking 14% more often during pandemic, study finds by Reese Oxner for NPR.
• Rapid COVID-19 testing, international collaboration, and a family favor by Jordan Villaneuva for Promega Connections.
• How a complex physics experiment became tabloid fodder by Eleni Petrakou for Massive Science.
• Working-class ants take the reins when the Indian jumping ant queen dies by Sree Rama Chaitanya for Massive Science.
• Golden-collared manakins change choreography when the environment shifts by Sukanya Ramani for Massive Science.
  
• Recycling meets reality by M. Mitchell Waldrop for Knowable Magazine.
• A conversation with CRISPR-Cas9 inventors Charpentier and Doudna by Dr. Ricki Lewis for DNA Science.
• There may be other ways to build DNA and RNA by Madeline Garner for Sciworthy.
• Rewriting the secret of life: The story of CRISPR by Shreya Ghosh at the Scientific Lens.
• NASA is sending yeast into deep space by Brook Shepard for Sciworthy.
• Could we kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria by impaling them on nanowires? by Sruthi Sanjeev Balakrishnan for Massive Science.
• Physicists have discovered the ultimate speed limit of sound by Leah Crane for New Scientist.
• The Nobel-winning black hole by Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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