How can skipping stones help to design sea vehicles and even spacecraft? How can we make sense of the latest CERN findings that challenge the Standard Model? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 19 - 25 2021 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's best from the world of science news, explore the amazing breakthrough in malaria vaccination and discover the disturbing link between pregnancy complications and COVID-19 infection. 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?

• Stone skipping physics could help spacecraft land safely on water by Matthew Sparkes for New Scientist.

Despite the paper's promising conclusions for other craft, spacecraft landing on water would have to be spinning fast enough that humans inside would experience dangerous G-forces.
Image Credit: Laughlin Elkind via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

• How to make sense of recent CERN finding that challenges the Standard Model of particle physics by Adam Fortais for Massive Science.
• An array of bacteria and fungi help leafcutter ants break down toxic leaves by Sophia Friesen for Massive Science.
• Foam rolling can help athletes hurdle the post-halftime slump by Margaux Lopez for Massive Science.
• Great malaria vaccine news by Derek Lowe at Science Translational Medicine
• Particle physics discoveries that disappeared by Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction.
• Save the microbes! by Muhammad Saleem for Knowable magazine.
• My top tips for revising for exams  by Ruby Tomlinson for Durham University Student blogs. 
• Bubbles with titanium trigger titanic explosions by Chandra X-ray Observatory.
• Perseverance extracts pure oxygen from carbon dioxide-rich Martian air by Sci-News.com.
• Clear link emerges between COVID-19 and pregnancy complications by Jocelyn Kaiser for Science magazine.
• LSD: An uncommon treatment for a common problem  by psychneuro for On Psychology and Neuroscience.
• Imaging the living brain in action by Steven Novella for Neurologica.

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