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9.05.2022

Meet Africa's oldest dinosaur, and discover the battle over 5G and weather forecasts in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for August 29-September 4 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, find out what you need to know about how birth control works and what extreme heat is doing to an Australian songbird. 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?


An artistic reconstruction of the Mbiresaurus raathi,
Africa's oldest dinosaur.
Image credit: Andrey Atuchin/Virginia Tech
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8.29.2022

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?

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

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8.22.2022

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?

Feeding cows seaweed can reduce how much methane
they release. Image credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis

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8.15.2022

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?

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

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8.08.2022

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?

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

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8.01.2022

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

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7.25.2022

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?

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

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7.18.2022

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?

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



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7.11.2022

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?

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

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7.03.2022

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 don't the stars make the sky much brighter? 

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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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5.30.2022

How does inequality shape our minds? Do smart parrots live longer? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 23-29 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, discover the long term psychological impacts of school shootings and how we know Einstein was right on relativity. 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?

Palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) at Jurong BirdPark, Singapore.
This species has the largest brain in relation to body mass of any parrot alive today.
(Credit: Doug Janson / CC BY-SA 3.0)

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5.23.2022

What can we do with waste solar cells? What is the Humongous Fungus? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 16-22 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn more about long Covid and what the latest upgraded atom-smasher will tell us. 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?

Honey fungus, the species that makes up the 
3.4 square mile 'humungous fungus'
Image credit: Charles de Mille-Isles/Flickr CC BY 2.0 licence

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    5.16.2022

    What's the world's lightest material? What does the black hole at the centre of the Milky way look like? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 9-15 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

    In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn a simple trick to improve your mental health and how robots and AI are helping improve farming. 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?

    This graphene lattice is itself less dense than air, but doesn't float away because it is filled with air.

    Get to know our nearest black hole, Sagittarius A*! 

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      5.10.2022

      What does a black hole sound like? Can pandas help other endangered bears? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for May 2-8 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

      In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about a smart device that can clean water at the press of a button and how video games can help 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?

      Sloth bears aren't as cute or popular as pandas 
      Image by  N. A. Naseer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5 IN).

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      5.02.2022

      What happens in our brains before death? Do people still want kids after the pandemic? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for April 25 -May 1 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

        In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about conch conservation and extraverts' perceived weakness. 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?

        Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, the largest comet ever discovered,
        has a nucleus that’s approximately 119 kilometers across.
        If such an object were to strike Earth, the energy imparted to our planet
        would be thousands to ten thousand times as energetic as the
        K-Pg impactor that occurred 65 million years ago. (Credit: NASA/Don Davis)

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        4.25.2022

        Which global killer disease has a new vaccine? Which measurement might transform physics? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for April 11-24 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

        In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about how to find a good mental health app, and how people are replacing lost forests. 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?

        In Jordan, a team is planting Pistacia lentiscus, the rare wild pistachio tree.
        Image credit: SAM_3326 used via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 licence

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        4.11.2022

        Can hip-hop prevent suicide? What is the southwest US dam problem? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of April 4-10 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

        In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about what it would look like were you able to see everything in the twinkly night sky, and how scientists are figuring out the way protein molecules like those in our bodies' cells fit together. 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 Southwest US could have a big dam problem
        Photo by Cédric Dhaenens on Unsplash

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        4.04.2022

        How fast should you drive to save fuel? How did stardust help life emerge? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of March 27-April 3 2022 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

        In the latest edition of the best and brightest from the world of science news, learn about why decongestant medicines don't work well, and how to charge your gadgets without wires. 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? 

        What commuting speed saves
        you the most money?
        Photo by Alessio Lin on Unsplash

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