Is there hope for a good summer? What does the new space telescope show? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for July 18-24 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover how DNA tests and fish poo can help coral, and a realistic view on the difficult recycling problem. 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?

• James Webb’s record-breaking first science image: explained by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang  

This image, of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, is the first full-colour, multiwavelength, science image taken by the JWST. Credit: NASA/JWST team, via PBS/White House briefing

• Sorry, Summer by Tara Parker-Pope for The New York Times 
• How Fish Poop Might Help Corals Overcome Bleaching by Derek Smith at Hakai Magazine
• New DNA test aims to help bust illegal trade in precious red coral by Kristy Hamilton at Mongabay
• Make Plastic Recycling Better by Tony at The Polymerist
• The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River by Boyce Upholt for Wired

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How do painkillers work? How can turtles help predict cyclones? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for July 11-17 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover how silicon bubbles might help fight global warming and how being part of a group shapes who we are. 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?

• Engineers want to blot out the sun to fight global warming. Again. by Greg A Fish 
• How Tagged Turtles Are Boosting Tropical Cyclone Prediction by Kate Golden at Hakai Magazine

Sea turtles, such as olive ridleys and loggerheads, spend most of their time
just below the ocean’s surface—the perfect place to collect data for
tropical cyclone forecasting. Photo by EyeEm/Alamy Stock Photo

• The Surprising Consequences of a Seaweed Switcheroo by Rebecca Dzombak at Hakai Magazine
• Meet the Ukrainian Number Theorist Who Won Math’s Highest Honor by Thomas Lin and Erica Klarreich at Wired
• Podcast: Separating Yourself from the Pack by Shankar Vedantam at Hidden Brain 
• How do painkillers work? by Sabine Hossenfelder at Science Without the Gobbledygook  
• Studies Probe Adenovirus Link to Childhood Hepatitis Cases by Tara Parker-Pope for The New York Times
• First two cancer patients treated with CAR T cells still in remission by Victoria Freitas at Sciworthy 
• Study Suggests Brain Processes Information like Ocean Waves by Avery Hurt at Discover Magazine 
• New insights into melanoma brain metastases at Science Daily 
• How blood vessels remember a stroke at Science Daily

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What is the latest promising covid-19 drug? How do plants survive volcano eruptions? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for July 4-10 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, we look at a newly-discovered low-power mode for the brain, and an unexpected effect of the Nobel prize-winning CRISPR gene editing method. 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?

• Buried Alive: How Plants Bounce Back from Volcanic Debris by Julia Bebout at Envirobites

On the left, a photograph of Mount Saint Helens shortly after the eruption in 1980 has little visible life. On the right, Mount Saint Helens, photographed in 2018 (38 years after the eruption) has visible plant recovery. Image Source: Nara & DVIDS Public Domain Archive and Wikipedia Creative Commons by user Reywas92

• Ancient Nautilus, Uncertain Future by Kate Evans at Hakai Magazine
• Cancer Drug Greatly Reduces Deaths in Hospitalized Covid Patients by Carl Zimmer for The New York Times
• Using a modified herpes virus to treat skin cancer by Savannah Ziba at Sciworthy 
• The most personalized medicine: Studying your own child’s rare condition by Lydia Denworth at Spectrum
• Why Do Mental Illnesses—From Depression to Schizophrenia—Raise the Risk of Dementia? by Claudia Wallis at Scientific American
• The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses by Allison Whitten for Wired 
• Podcast: What We Gain From Pain at by Shankar Vedantam at Hidden Brain
• Opioid prescriptions significantly higher for patients with lifelong disabilities, study finds at ScienceDaily 
• Electrical stimulation improves arm control in paralyzed monkeys at ScienceDaily
• Unexpected effects of gene editing: aggressive hamsters by Rosa García-Verdugo at Mapping Ignorance
• A Decade of the Higgs Boson and Beyond by Jon Butterworth at Cosmic Shambles Network

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Why is night dark? How do you know if a species is extinct? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for June 26-July 3 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, we look at how people are fighting health myths on TikTok and how genetics can help save bees. 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 does it get dark at night? by Ian Hall at The Average Scientist 

Why don't the stars make the sky much brighter? 

• Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light by Jonathan O'Callaghan for Wired
• The Presence Of Absence: How Do We Know A Species Is Really Extinct? by GrrlScientist at Forbes
• Baby Parrots Babble Like Human Infants by Mary Bates at Psychology Today
• ‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping by Liz Kimbrough at Mongabay
• The octopus’ brain and the human brain share the same ‘jumping genes’ at Ominy Science 
• Study: How placentas evolved in mammals at Ominy Science
• TikTok Is Flooded With Health Myths. These Creators Are Pushing Back by Tara Parker-Pope for The New York Times
• Abortion and the FDA by Derek Lowe at Science Magazine 
• The mRNA vaccine platform may also help cancer research by Matthew Kowalczyk at Sciworthy 
• Novel gene for Alzheimer's disease in women identified. Findings may help explain why Alzheimer's is more prevalent in women than men at Science Daily 
• Largeneuroimaging study finds social isolation to be an early indicator of increased dementia risk at Sharp Brains 
• Adolescents more vulnerable to cannabis addiction but not other mental health risks, study finds at Science Daily

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