What's the connection between lobsters and telescopes? What's the science of sugar syrups? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of June 21 - June 27 2021 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

In this week's edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover the extremely important physics behind beer-mat flipping, and meet 'Dragon Man', a controversial new ancient human fossil specimen. 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 lobster eyes can help astronomers get a wider view of the Cosmos by Claire Bugos for Discover Magazine.

The unique positioning of lobster eyes enables an 180-degree field of view, and has been mimicked to improve telescopes.
Credit: Henry Burrows via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

• Cosmic hand hitting a wall by Chandra X-ray Observatory.
• Physicists show that flying beer coasters will flip 0.45 seconds into flight by Jennifer Ouellette for Ars Technica.
• The science behind cooking sugar syrups for candy making by FoodCrumbles.
• The great fish-oil debate continues by Jason Wermers for NutriBites.
• Southern England has a small but thriving population of Australian red-necked wallabies by Maria Gatta for Massive Science.
• 'Dragon man' claimed as new species of ancient human but doubts remain by Alison George for New Scientist.
• Delta variant triggers dangerous new phase in the pandemic by Kai Kupferschmidt and Meredith Wadman for Science magazine.
• A mining code for the Deep Sea by Elham Shabahat for Hakai magazine.
• Sustainable polymer nanocoatings: An innovative concept by Raj Shah, Tad Koga and Blerim Gashi for Nanowerk.
• Retracted papers continue to circulate on social media, spreading misinformation by Rebecca Lea Morris for Massive Science.

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