6.27.2022

What is the world's largest freshwater fish? Where in the world are birds most colourful? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for June 20-26 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, we look at the significance of the US abortion ruling and the discovery of poliovirus in London. 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?

The Paradise Tanager (Tangara chilensis) is very colourful.
(Credit: thibaudaronson / iNaturalist / CC BY-SA 4.0)

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6.20.2022

Find out about a lifeline for polar bears and what sound fishes make in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for June 13-19 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover the new telescope that could find alien life and what the 'CSI effect' is. 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?

A polar bear family group, consisting of an adult female (left) and two cubs, crosses glacier ice in Southeast Greenland in September 2016. Image courtesy of NASA OMG.
A polar bear family group, consisting of an adult female (left) and two cubs,
crosses glacier ice in Southeast Greenland in September 2016.
Image courtesy of NASA OMG.



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6.13.2022

Find out which bird was first domesticated and whether particles can be in two places at once in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for June 6-12 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover a new covid-19 vaccine that more people might like and learn how moving rivers are helping protect life in the Amazon. 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?

The rivers crisscrossing through the Amazon partition the forest
into microenvironments that can hold unique collections of species.
Because the rivers keep changing, these microenvironments may be
temporary on a geological scale. Credit: Uwe Bergwitz/Shutterstock

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6.06.2022

Meet the first owl that came out during the day and learn how Thor gets so strong in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 30-June 5 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover the problems with Elon Musk's super-fast Hyperloop train-thing, and the overlooked ways to protect kids' mental health. 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?

Artist’s reconstruction of the recently unearthed fossil of an extinct owl,
Miosurnia diurna, perched in a tree with its last meal of a small rodent,
overlooking extinct three-toed horses and rhinos, 
with the Tibetan Plateau rising up on the horizon. (Credit: Zheng Qiuyang.)

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