Who walks faster; you or a T-Rex? How many bacteria is your keyboard harbouring? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of May 10 - May 16 2021 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's edition of the best from the world of science news, find out what makes things taste good, and discover the policies that could help to improve plastic recycling. 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?

• Podcast: Who laps whom on the walking track— Tyrannosaurus rex or you? Science has a new answer by Christopher Intagliata at Scientific American.

An analysis of the animal’s walking speed suggests that T. rex’s walking pace was close to that of a human.
Credit: Adapted from Ivan via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

• By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons in one cave by Sci-News.com.
• Fish-friendly gold mines produce “Salmon Gold” by Ryan Stuart for Hakai magazine.
• Cicadas' shrieks have annoyed — and delighted — humans for thousands of years by Eliza Middleton and Linda Evans for Massive Science.
• How dirty is your QWERTY? by Jon Otter in Reflections On Infection Prevention And Control.
• Researchers are mapping how information about what we eat travels from our guts to our brains by Julia A Lichola for Massive Science.
• Podcast: Yum by Michael Osborne for Generation Anthropocene.
• New mask guidance, shots for teens, and more coronavirus news by Eve Sneider for Wired.
• Beating covidsomnia by Nada Salem and Zahra Nasser for Science Borealis.
• What policies can help improve plastics recycling? by Craig Cookson at American Chemistry Council.
• This flat pasta morphs into surprising shapes as it cooks by Hannah Pell for Physics Central.
• China lands Tianwen-1 rover on Mars in a major first for the country by Jonathan O'Callaghan for Scientific American.
• Trace seabed plutonium points to stellar forges of heavy elements by Dan Clery for Science.

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