Why do some students cheat? What's the link between artificial sweeteners and antibiotic resistance? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of Feb 22- 28 2021 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's bumper edition of the very best from science news around the world, explore the brain of a person with anxiety, find out about burnout and whether you may be suffering from it, and discover how the moon might be affecting your sleep. 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?

• Why students cheat (after Brimble, 2016) by Dr. Mirjam S. Glessmer at Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching.

Sometimes, cheating might feel like it’s the only solution to survive and finish a course among competing priorities.
Credit: ccarlstead via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• One flash of light, one vision: Carrots, colour and chemistry by Kat Day at The Chronicle Flask.
• People with anxiety show abnormal patterns of cortical thinning across development, study finds by Beth Ellwood for Psypost.
• Communicating while dreaming by Steven Novella for Neurologica.
• Our brains “See” beams of motion emanating from people’s faces towards the object of their attention by Sofia Deleniv for BPS Research Digest.
• What is burnout? 16 signs and symptoms of excessive stress by Alicia Nortje, Ph.D. for Positive Psychology.
• Having trouble sleeping? Look to the moon for answers by Anna Wernick for Massive Science.
• Artificial sweeteners may play role in spread of antibiotic resistance by Sci-News.com.
• Abortions can happen safely — and entirely — at home by Leah Coplon and Claire Brindis for Knowable Magazine.
• Rare disease day 2021: Gene therapy ups and downs, again by Ricki Lewis, PhD for DNA Science.
• New findings on two ways children become seriously ill from the Coronavirus by Pam Belluck for The New York Times.
• Researchers develop a new tool to quantify self-care during COVID-19 by Emma Okumura for Massive Science.
• How scientists identified the now iconic spike protein of the novel coronavirus by Andy Brunning for Compound Interest.
• Defective ribosomes leave proteins to build up in our cells by Joyce Yu for Massive Science.
• Using living bacteria to design self-growing engineering materials by Michael Berger for Nanowerk.
• Night owls or early birds: how being active at different times of day allows wildlife to coexist with people by Alina C. Fisher and Tanya Samman for Science Borealis.
• Is eight enough? New study throws planet nine into doubt, but can’t kill it by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
• We've spotted a neutrino blasted out by a black hole shredding a star by Down Here on Earth.
• Radio signals from Proxima Centauri by Allison Kubo Hutchison at Physics Central.
• Podcast: BBC Radio 4 - More or Less: Behind the Stats, Why are US Covid cases falling? by Tim Harford, Derek Thompson, and Jennifer Dowd for More or Less: Behind the Stats.
• Podcast:Black in science: The legacy of racism in science and how Black scientists are moving the dial by Nicole Mortillaro for CBC Quirks.

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