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.

Synaptic proteins and their associations to neuronal processes in layers IV-V of mouse primary somatosensory cortex from HHMI NEWS on Vimeo 

• AI has predicted a new subspecies of archaic human ancestors that have not been discovered yet by Kristine Moore for The Inquisitr.
• Wiretapping Minke whales by Larry Pynn for Hakai Magazine.
• A faster way to find illicit fins by Alistair Bland for Hakai Magazine.
• Germany to phase out coal by 2038 by Martin Keiner for Unearthed.
• Sustainable bricks made from sewage by Prachi Patel for Anthropocene Magazine.
• Ten of the best books about climate change, conservation and the environment of 2018 by GrrlScientist for Medium.
• New device can desalinate seawater  by Megan Nichols for Schooled By Science.
• ‘Metallic wood' throws down a challenge to titanium by Nick Carne for Cosmos Magazine.
• Take a virtual tour through the history of the periodic table by Jake Yeston, Nirja Desai, and Elbert Wang for Science Magazine.
• Today is the bittersweet 15th anniversary of NASA’s Opportunity Rover landing on Mars by Ethan Siegel for Starts with a Bang.
• NASA’s Parker solar probe completes its first orbit of sun by SciNews.
• NASA’s Curiosity Rover weighs a mountain on Mars by Michael Wall for Space.com.
• Does intermittent fasting work? by Monica Reinagel for Scientific American.
• Obesity tied to higher cancer rates in younger people by Nicholas Bakalar for The New York Times.
• Precision medicine real soon now by Derek Lowe for Science Translational Medicine.
• From bad air to mosquito-borne disease: How folks found out malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes by Gibbs Nasir for Public Health United.
• Policies reducing prescription opioids have limited effect on overdose deaths. Interview with Dr. Qiushi Chen and Jagpreet Chhatwal for Medical Research.
• "Rectenna" Converts Wi-Fi to Electricity by Christopher Intagliata for Scientific American.
• Hydroponics? by Frans Mäyra.
• The beautiful magic of bioluminescence in A Backpacking Biologist.

Check back next week for more great picks!