ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 26 2016-January 1 2017 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Happy New Year from the ScienceSeeker team! This week, as they do every week, the ScienceSeeker Editors have picked their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is the round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections:

• Another 1/230,000,000th of a Galactic Orbit by Caleb Scharf at Life, Unbounded
• The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016 at New Scientist
• 2016: Compound Interest’s Year in Review by Andy Brunning at Compound Interest
• The Best Prime Numbers of 2016 by Evelyn Lamb at Roots of Unity
• Raising a Glass to Vera Rubin & Dark Matter by Kendra Redmond at Physics Buzz 
• Gone in 2016: 10 Notable Women in Science and Technology by Maia Weinstock at Voices
• The Importance of Storytelling in Science by Jeff Atkins at PLOS Ecology Community
• We Need to Think Trashy Thoughts by Valerie Gwinner at The Nature of Cities

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 19-25 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Santa’s Biggest Health Issue Isn’t Cookies by Steve Graff at Penn Medicine News
• Antimatter atom trapped and measured with a laser for first time by Leah Crane at New Scientist
• Cellular Rejuvenation, For Real by Derek Lowe at In The Pipeline
• Dircks and Pepper: A Tale of Two Ghosts by Gregory J Gbur at Skulls in the Stars
• Why does the ‘Windchill factor’ make you feel so cold? by Ethan Siegel at Starts with a Bang!
• Politicians' Most Bogus Science-Related Claims of 2016 by Vanessa Schipani at Scientific American
• Support Science-Based Medicine by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine 

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 12-18 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• A Chemical Chorus by Andrew Hall at Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies
• How the Universe changed in 2016 by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang! 
• First exoplanet weather report shows clouds of ruby and sapphire by Rebecca Boyle at New Scientist
• The weak shall inherit the quasiprobability by Nicole Yunger Halpern at Quantum Frontiers
• Saving a Coral Reef, One Transplant at a Time by Alex Riley at Hakai Magazine
• Aging Is Reversible--at Least in Human Cells and Live Mice by Karen Weintraub at Scientific American
• Muscular dystrophy research is getting directions from lost muscle stem cells by Meredith Hanel at The Expression
• Why monkeys don’t speak English… by Dr Dolittle at Life Lines
• Watson and Pfizer by Derek Lowe at In the Pipeline
• The Like of Science – A New Impact Factor in the New Publication Landscape by Anna Leida Mölder at Euroscientist

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections December 5-11 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Why Exercise May Be the Best Fix for Depression by Ferris Jabr at Scientific American Mind
• A Conversation With Dan Ariely About What Shapes our Motivations by Jessica Gross at Longreads
• T. rex cousin’s 99-million-year old tail feathers found in amber at New Scientist
• The Elements redux by Helen Arney at Sciencebase
• Linking Gaucher and Parkinson’s Diseases by Ricki Lewis at DNA Science Blog
• A Third of People Given Antibiotics Don't Need Them by Maryn McKenna at Germination
• Can living fig-tree bridges save lives in a changing climate? by Mike Shanahan at Under the Banyan
• Trump's First 100 Days: Science Education and Schools by Devin Powell at Scientific American
• What to watch for when science becomes politicized and Ask Ethan: How do gravitational waves escape from a black hole? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With a Bang
• Nobel Prize Data Viz: The Fast and The Spurious by Sophie Mathias by biomolbioandco 
• Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability by Hilda Bastian at Absolutely Maybe
• West World and Consciousness by Steven Novella at Neurologica Blog
• Neuroscientists use neurofeedback to erase fear in the brain by Christian Jarrett at BPS Research Digest
• Using Magnets on the Brain to Bring Back Memories by Janice Wood at Brain Blogger
• Book Review: Spaceman by Mike Massimino by Steven Spence at GotScience.org
• Los parques urbanos pueden ser un buen lugar para buscar nuevos antibióticos y antitumorales by Ignacio López-Goñi at microBIO

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ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections November 28-December 4 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• Cold fusion died 25 years ago, but the research lives on by Stephen K Ritter at Chemical and Engineering News
• Influenza is coming by Olivier Bernard at The Pharmafist
• The Underground Map of the Elements – now with Nh, Mc, Ts & Og by Mark Lorch at Chemistry Blog
• Fires and drought cook Tennessee - a state represented by climate deniers by John Abraham at Skeptical Science
• Justin Trudeau approves two big oil sands pipeline expansions by Andy Skuce at Skeptical Science
• Global sea ice in uncharted territory by James Renwick at Hot Topic
• Why Should an Urbanist Care About Biodiversity? by Olivier Scheffer at The Nature of Cities
• Cat-tongues inspire new technology? by Dr Dolittle at Life Lines
• High school students cheaply reproduced a drug that sells for $750 a dose by Kelsey D Atherton at Popular Science
• GSK set for 2017 European rollout of med device asthma app by Dominic Tyer at PM Live 
• Civic Online Reasoning by Steven Novella at NeurologicaBlog
• What Should We Do About Comments?  by Christie Aschwanden at The Last Word On Nothing
• Third molar agenesis: a puzzling case of recent human evolution by John Hawks at John Hawks Weblog
• Death and a Union of Nations: How the Mosquito Shaped Human History by Xin Liu at Signal to Noise Magazine
• The Human Footprint on Mars is Expanding...Sometimes Faster Than We'd Like by Corey S. Powell at Out There
• How Will Our Religions Handle the Discovery of Alien Life? by David A Weintraub at Nautilus 
• Your Brain On God: Reward and Motivation by Bill Yates at Brainposts
• Tell me lies: the truth about the deceptive ACC (dACC) at Neurocopiae 
• Thirsty before bed. Connection between ‘body clock’ brain area and ‘thirst’ area creates thirst before sleep, to maintain water balance overnight by Ben Kuebrich at Neuroamer
• Stuff and Starve: A Means of Holiday Binging or Healthy Eating? by N Hoffner at Neuwrite San Diego
• Never say Never! by Thony Christie at The Renaissance Mathematicus 
• Science Is Not THAT Special by Chad Orzel at Forbes
• The Landscape for Science post Brexit Anna Leida Mölder at EuroScientist

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