What's the good news on cancer? Should we colonise Mars? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 7-13 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

This week's best science posts include more bad news for our oceans, a rethink of how we look at genetics, and a way to rewire our brains. But there are other important topics touched on in ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

Tsunami aftermath in Aceh, Indonesia,
December 2004. Credit
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• US Cancer Death Rate Continues to Decline by Steven Novella at Science-Based Medicine
• It’s the End of the Gene As We Know It by Ken Richardson at Nautilus
• Podcast of the week: Should We Colonize Mars? Michael Robinson talks to Lucianne Walkowicz at Time to Eat the Dogs
• Mainland China Was Struck By Large Tsunami A Thousand Years Ago by David Bressan at Forbes
• Ocean warming projected to accelerate more than four-fold over next 60 years: Study  by Mike Gaworecki at Mongabay
• Endangered bluefin tuna sold for record fee in Tokyo market by Harry Baker at Marine Madness

How can you age gracefully? Should you worry about artificial sweeteners? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 14-20 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

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• Want to age gracefully? A new study says live meaningfully by Scotty Hendricks at Big Think
• For Children With Cancer, Hope for New Treatments (registration required) by Lucette Lagnado at The Wall Street Journal 
• Despite rampant internet fear mongering, artificial sweeteners are safe by Greg A. Fish at World of Weird Things
• Does grape age impact the smell of your wine? by Mary Sabuda at Sciworthy
• Coffee in trouble: 60% of wild coffee species threatened with extinction by Shreya Dasgupta at Mongabay

How can you avoid cracking up under pressure? Do men feel pain more? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 21-27 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm

This week's best science posts include a happy ending for an endangered frog, a less happy ending for hedgehog lovers and tough questions for particle physics. But there are other important topics touched on in the ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ Selections:

Romeo's Juliet is not actually a little girl.
Credit: Gordon, used via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

• A new gravitational wave detector is almost ready to join the search by Emily Conover for Science News.
• Particle physics may have reached the end of the line by Sabine Hossenfelder for Backreaction. 
• Scientists are building a quantum computer that "acts like a brain" by John Christian for futurism.com. 
• The Brain Maps Out Ideas and Memories Like Spaces by Jordana Cepelewicz for Quanta Magazine. 
• Men React to Repeated Painful Experiences Differently than Women Do by Diana M. Kwon for The Scientist. 
• A Surprising New Way To Avoid Choking Under Pressure – Imagine You Have The Prize And Are Performing To Keep It by Christian Jarrett for British Psychological Society Research Digest. 
• Podcast of the week: Creative Differences: The Benefits Of Reaching Out To People Unlike Ourselves by Jennifer Schmidt, Parth Shah, Shanka Vedantam, Tara Boyle, Maggie Penman and Max Nesterak for NPR Hidden Brain. 
• Nature Shapes Faithful and Unfaithful Brains by Sarah Jane Alger for The Scorpion and the Frog.
• Romeo finally found his Juliet, and an endangered frog has new prospects for survival by Mongabay.com. 
• Why I don’t bite everyone that stresses me out: The cost-benefit analysis of predators by Michelle Jewell for Southern Fried Science.

How does your brain look on acid? What do Minke whales talk about? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of January 28 - February 4, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

This week's best posts from the science blogosphere include a commitment from Germany to cleaner energy, the science behind the star-nosed mole's eyes and the effect of 'screen time' on children's brains. But there are other important topics touched on in the ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise for the past seven days. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ selections:

Are they talking, or just wailing?
Credit: Majestic Whale Encounters,
used via Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0

• Stars for Eyes – The Neurological Wonder of the Star-Nosed Mole by Seraphina Solders for NeuWrite San Diego.
• Watching brains on acid using an MRI by John Timmer for Ars Technica.
• The science of screen time by Jena Doom for Science with Dr. Doom.
• Enemy Infiltration of the Blood-Brain Barrier by Sarah Price for ImmunoBites
• When two forces join to make imaging brains more amazing than ever! by Rosa García-Verdugo for Mapping Ignorance.

What shape is the Milky Way? What Dark Energy discovery is shaking up the physics world? Find out in ScienceSeeker's picks of the best posts for the week of February 5 - February 11, 2019 #SciSeekPicks #SciComm.

You can get inside the brain of an introvert and find out how you can deal with eco-anxiety in this week's selection of the best and brightest posts from the science blogosphere. But there are many other important topics touched on in the ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts of the week within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is the full round-up of the ScienceSeeker Editors’ selections:

We all need time alone, but for introverts
it's when they're most creative.
Credit: Katia Romanova,
used via Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0

• The brain of an introvert by Viatcheslav Wlassoff for Brain Blogger.
• Helping mothers recover when the psychological trauma of giving birth lingers by‎ the Mass General Research Institute Blog.
• Attachment anxiety heightens aversion toward pattern deviancy, according to new psychology research by Eric Dolan for Psypost.
• Eco-anxiety isn’t new, and it’s time to deal with it by Glynis Ratcliffe for Asparagus Magazine.
• New 3D map of milky way reveals true shape of its stellar disc | Astronomy by Sci-News.com.
• Dark energy may not be a constant, which would lead to a revolution in physics by Ethan Siegel for Starts With A Bang.
• Is Sweat Up To Batt? Sweat as a Power Source for Screening by Elizabeth Joseph at Chembites  

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