Why are bananas radioactive? Does doodling help you concentrate? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of March 1 - 7 2021 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

Welcome to this week's edition of the cream-of-the-crop of science news the world over. Celebrate International Women's Day by finding out about the women who have contributed to the world of chemistry over the last 100 years, and discover the hidden antibiotic resistance menace in the meat we eat. 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?

• How #Bananas make radiation ap-peel-ing by Hannah Pell at Physics Central

  

  Bananas contain the radionuclide K-40, a naturally occurring isotope of the element potassium (K).
  Credit: Physics Central (Public domain)

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• Why the meat we eat is an antibiotic-resistance threat by Sophie Putka for Discover magazine.
• You're vaccinated and people want to visit. now what? by Adam Rogers for Wired.
• One and Done by Gertrud U. Rey for Virology Blog. 
• Do hand sanitizers work on the coronavirus? by Gina Misra for Sciworthy.
• Progress in screening: The key to lower colorectal cancer mortality by Kate Gavaghan for OncoBites.
• New help for allergies could be on the way by Hazel Walker for Massive Science.
• Podcast: Immune boosting: Is it a bust? by Wendy Zukerman for Science Vs at Gimlet.
• Does doodling help you concentrate? by Anthony Dinglasan for Future Science Leaders.
• Our experiences help us judge how well we will learn new things by Daniel Ribeiro for Massive Science.
• It turns out you can bullshit a bullshitter after all by Emma Young for BPS Research Digest.
• Using marijuana as a sleep aid? You might want to reconsider by Psychneuro for On Psychology and Neuroscience.
• The bilingual brain by Minerva Contreras for NeuWrite San Diego.
• International Women’s Day #IWD2021 ♀️: Highlighting 100 women in chemistry by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest.
• Battling arsenic pollution by Silke Schmidt for Knowable Magazine.
• A new tweak to an old model explains the existence of primordial black holes by Briley Lewis for Massive Science.
• Researchers find organic matter and water in sample from asteroid Itokawa by Sci-News.com.
• Meet Maxwell’s gambling demon—smart enough to quit while it’s ahead by Jennifer Ouelette for Ars Technica.
• Will stem cells save the Northern White Rhino? by Ricki Lewis for The Niche.
• Podcast: Kangaroos with puppy dog eyes by Jason G. Goldman at Scientific American.

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