How is alcohol-free beer made? Can we know how the universe began? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for August 22-28 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, find out about increasing marijuana and psychedelic use among young US people and how scientists are using oysters and grasses to clean up rivers. 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 is alcohol-free beer made? by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest

Avoid or limit fermentation, or ferment normally and remove the alcohol.
Credit: Andy Brunning/Compound Interest

• Use of Marijuana and Psychedelics Is Soaring Among Young Adults, Study Finds by Andrew Jacobs for The New York Times
• Photos of the Week – August 22, 2022 by Chris Helzer at The Prairie Ecologist 
• Hidden legacies: what do colonialism and natural sciences have to do with each other? by Midori Yajima at EcoEvo@TCD 
• We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know by Sabine Hossenfelder at Science Without the Gobbledegook
• How Scientists Are Cleaning Up Rivers Using Grasses and Oysters by Katherine Rapin for Wired

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Are black holes stable? How much meat can we eat sustainably? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for August 15-21 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, find out about the poisonous bite of the world's largest lizard and how best to store renewable energy. 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: You 2.0: How To See Yourself Clearly and You 2.0: The Mind's Eye by Shenkar Vedantam at Hidden Brain 
• How Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder May Contribute to Superior Memory by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi at Discover Magazine 
• At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable by Steve Nadis for Wired 
• No Sun, No Wind, Now What? Renewable Energy Storage by Sabine Hossenfelder at Science Without The Gobbledygook 
• How much meat can we eat — sustainably? by Bob Holmes at Knowable Magazine

Feeding cows seaweed can reduce how much methane

they release. Image credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis

• Polio May Have Been Spreading in New York Since April by Tara Parker-Pope for The New York Times 
• How nurses learn to assess pain levels in infants at Science Daily
• New method enables long-lasting imaging of rapid brain activity in individual cells deep in the cortex at Science Daily  
• Deep brain stimulation to brain area linked to reward and motivation is potential therapyfor treatment-resistant depression at Science Daily
• Hear that? Bioacoustics is having its moment, but the technology still needs tuning by Abhishyant Kidangoor at Mongabay
• Komodo Dragons and their Venomous Proteins by Sean Lim at For The Love of Science

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How can lasers make better coffee? How can lizards live on volcanos? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for August 8-14 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, find out the fascinating history of the microbe that gives us beer and bread, and how scientists are discovering what our genes are doing. 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?

• Laser coffee, coming soon to a café near you? by Greg A Fish at World of Weird Things 

A new way of making cold-brew coffee?
Image credit npj Science of Food
volume 6, Article number: 19 (2022) 

• Podcast: Volcano Lizards by Tom Major and Ben Marshall. at Herpetological Highlights
• Revealing the natural history of yeast by Matthew Vandermeulen at The Molecular Ecologist
• Inside Living Cells by Derek Lowe at Science
• What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression? by Maggie Chen for Wired
• How do you manage Omicron BA.5 symptoms, including a sore throat? by Dani Blum for The New York Times

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What's the problem with rapid covid tests? How can we power the tiniest gadgets ever? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for August 1-7 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, make friends with your inner voice and learn about the quest to find dark matter. 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?

• XENON’s experimental triumph: no dark matter, but the best “null result” in history by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang

The XENON detector is searching for dark matter
and dark energy. Credit: XENON Collaboration.

• Microbatteries much smaller than a grain of rice for a smart dust future by Michael Berger at Nanowerk 
• Podcast: You 2.0: Befriending Your Inner Voice by Shenkar Vedantam at Hidden Brain
• No, the human brain did not shrink 3,000 years ago at Science Daily
• Larry Brilliant Says Covid Rapid Tests Are Bad for Public Health by Steven Levy for Wired 
• ‘What if This is My Destiny?’ Children of Alzheimer’s Patients Sometimes Fear Future Diagnosis by Tara Parker-Pope for The New York Times
• Researchers gain insights into the genetic and molecular machinery that predisposes individuals to Alzheimer's disease at Science Daily 
• New study on immunotherapy for bone cancer by Francesca Pisanzio at Sciworthy
• Eelgrass Is Still Reeling from the Last Ice Age by Rebecca Dzombak at Hakai Magazine
• Matriarch Madness: Mechanism of Social Parasitism and Colony Takeover in Ants by Maria Marlin at Envirobites

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How has AI sped up medical research? How does plastic pollution spread disease? ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for July 25-31 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, read about the latest drama in the quest to explain and treat Alzheimer's disease and find out the potential cause of the recent child hepatitis outbreaks. 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 entire protein universe’: AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein by Ewen Callaway at Nature

The structure of the vitellogenin protein — a precursor of egg yolk —
as predicted by the AlphaFold tool. Credit: DeepMind

• Faked Beta-Amyloid Data. What Does It Mean? by Derek Lowe at Science Magazine
• Unexpected Brain Chemistry Is behind the Element of Surprise by S Hussain Ather at Scientific American
• Viral Infections and Gene Variant Are Linked to Child Hepatitis Cases by Tara Parker-Pope for The New York Times 
• A protein that lets the immune system “see” lung cancer by Ava Devine at Sciworthy 
• Reframing Your Reality: Part 1 and Part 2 by Shenkar Vedantam at Hidden Brain
• Taking your time makes a difference: Brain development differs between Neanderthals and modern humans at ScienceDaily
• Human Pathogens Are Hitching a Ride on Floating Plastic by Michael Allen at Hakai Magazine
• Chimps digging wells shows learned behavior that may help amid climate change by Manon Verchot and Sanshey Biswas at Mongabay
• Hypergraphs Reveal a Solution to a 50-Year-Old Problem by Leila Sloman at Wired
• Embracing a Rejected Star at NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory

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