Hi Everyone,

Our Best Of contest is officially over. Thank you to everyone who participated and shows us your favorite articles from the past year. Unfortunately fewer people than we had hoped participated, so I've had to adjust some of the rules and point allocation from the original plan. Hopefully we'll get a better turn out next year!

Anyway, on to the awards:

Most Interesting Paper

• /u/mem_somerville gets 3 months of reddit premium for this article about the relationship between hearing loss and other health problems and weren't considered related to hearing

• /u/G_o_o_d_n_a_s_t_y gets 1 month of reddit premium for this article about how researchers can use multiple types of cells together in vitro

Most Interesting Question During an AMA or Panel Discussion

• /u/SirT6 gets 3 months of reddit premium for this comment about research surrounding pet health

Best ELI5

• /u/SirT6 gets 3 months of reddit premium for this comment explaining the successful treatment of a patient with advanced breast cancer

Most Interesting Paper Below 1000 Karma

• /u/shiruken gets 3 months of reddit premium for this article about a new type of optical imaging

• /u/AbyssalSmite gets 1 month of reddit premium for this article about a self-healing material that draws carbon from the air

• /u/altheist gets 1 week of reddit premium for this article about a new way of detecting dark matter

Most Significant Paper

• /u/shiruken gets 3 months of reddit premium for this article about AlphaZero playing GO

• /u/altheist gets 1 month of reddit premium for this article about the origin of the human race and the types of societies early humans formed

• /u/mem_somerville gets 1 week of reddit premium for this article about the survival rate of cancer patients to receive complementary treatments alongside or instead of traditional cancer treatments

Water is… dry?(Most interesting result debunking conventional wisdom)

• /u/shiruken gets 3 months of reddit premium for this article showing that 2 spaces after the period can aid with processing text

I've gave out the rest of the coins as participation prizes. Thanks again to everyone who took part. I was fascinated while I was reading through the results and finding the winners. I hope the rest of you learned as much as I did.