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Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 15, Expand Your Scientific Scope. Get ready for algal microplastics remediation, cosmic large-scale structure, coffee and dementia risk, tales of outer membrane vesicles and tumor microenvironment subtypes, why a high R-squared can be misleading, and the MIRA award from the NIH. Science On.References:Remediation and upcycling of microplastics by algae with wastewater nutrient removal and bioproduction potentialLarge-scale Structure in COSMOS-Web: Tracing Galaxy Evolution in the Cosmic Web up to z ∼ 7 with the Largest JWST SurveyCoffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive FunctionLoad Identification in Bistable Spacecraft Boomsvia Parametric Data-Driven Modeling"Like Taking the Path of Least Resistance": Exploring the Impact of LLM Interaction on the Creative Process of ProgrammingDiscovery and characterisation of OMVs produced by the bee gut microbiotaTumorArchetypeR: A modular framework to derivesignature-based tumor subtypesLearning Data Science: Why a High R^2 Can Be MisleadingMaximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI)R Packages: marsruntime: Portable Mars Runtime ReplayQsRutils: R Functions Useful for Community EcologyROCsurvcomp: ROC-Based Methods for Comparing Survival Distributions with Right, Left, and Doubly Censored Datawarmthcompetence: Warmth and Competence Detectors

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 14, Get ready for chemical synthesis a la LMMs, an amino acid for Alzheimer’s pathology suppression, a trans-Neptunian object with an atmosphere, PhysForge vs. ProtSpace, and cancer grants from the Department of War.References:Chemical reasoning in LLMs unlocks strategy-aware synthesis planning and reaction mechanism elucidationOral administration of arginine suppresses Aβ pathology in animal models of Alzheimer's diseaseMultiple independent genetic code reassignments of the UAG stop codon in phyllopharyngean ciliatesDetection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond PlutoBioprinting of Microtissues Within Mechanically Tunable Support Baths to Engineer Anisotropic Musculoskeletal TissuesPhysForge: Generating Physics-Grounded 3D Assets for Interactive Virtual WorldProtSpace: Protein Universe in Your BrowserDoW Peer Reviewed Cancer, Idea AwardBioengineering Research Grants

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 13, Attack of the 50-foot Octopus! Get ready for giant predatory Cretaceous octopuses, ice-water clouds on a distant Jupiter, anti-viral acrylic surfaces, 3D printing inside living cells, March’s top 40 new CRAN packages, and a grant on Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems. Science On.References:Compositional selection of phospholipid compartments in icy environments drives the enrichment of encapsulated genetic informationEarliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceansA Second Visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: New Photometry Confirms Ammonia and Suggests Thick Clouds in the Exoplanet Atmosphere of the Closest Super-JupiterDesigning Scalable Mechano-Virucidal Nanostructured Acrylic Surfaces for Enhanced Viral InactivationRemoval of Microplastics from Drinking Water by Moringa oleifera Seed: Comparative Performance with Alum in Direct and in-Line Filtration SystemsTwo-Photon 3D Printing of Functional Microstructures Inside Living CellsCAN WE TEACH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE DESIGNLANGUAGE OF ENGINEERED LIVING MATERIALS? Harnessing AI to Build Virtual CellsUrban soil microbiomes exhibit taxonomic and functional potential for enhanced contaminant cyclingR 4.6.0 is releasedMarch 2026 Top 40 New CRAN PackagesLittle useless-useful R functions – Desk plant simulatorDesign your plots (ggplot) for mobileEngineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS)INSPIRING GENERATIONS OF NEW INNOVATORS TO IMPACT TECHNOLOGIES IN ENERGY 2026 (IGNIITE 2026)John Templeton Foundation - Life SciencesR Packages: rPandas: Translating from R to Python's Pandas Package

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 12, Dropping the PepHammer. Get ready for ancient soft sponges, astronomical biosignature spotting via grouped planets, the Epidemiology of AI, crop management via smartphone, an examination of NIH funding outputs, dropping the PepHammer, asking if AI agents save time for scientists, and a grant on specialty crops. Science On.References:A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animalPearling drives mitochondrial DNA nucleoid distributionp21+TREM2+ senescent macrophages fuel inflammaging and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver diseaseAn Agnostic Biosignature Based on Modeling Panspermia and TerraformingVisplot: A visibility plot and observation scheduling tool forastronomical observatoriesAI-assisted writing and the reorganization of scientific knowledgeThe Epidemiology of Artificial IntelligenceThe Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) Image-based leaf SPAD value and chlorophyll measurement using a mobilephone: enabling accessible and sustainable crop managementComparing the outputs of intramural and extramural grants funded by National Institutes of Health PepHammer – a lightweight web-based tool for bioactive peptide matching and identification My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDsWhy Most Time Series Models Fail Before They StartDo AI coding agents save scientists time?Using R to Teach R: Lessons for Software DevelopmentSpecialty Crop Research InitiativeWhat is a Specialty Crop?Translational Medicine Postdoctoral FellowshipScience Café Mini-GrantR Packages:glm4: Fitting Generalized Linear Models Using Sparse Matricestinyrox: Minimal R Documentation Generatorbaseverse: Modern Base-R Functionstidyfun: Tidy Functional Data Wrangling and Visualization

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 11. Get ready for Vitamin D and dementia-protection, exploding black holes, semi-autonomous robots for Martian exploration, a forbidden planet, a pristine star, Mothbox and Mothbot, One-pass statistical formulas in SAS, and building your own programming language. Science On.References:Association of Circulating Vitamin D in Midlife With Increased Tau-PET Burden in Dementia-Free AdultsDNA–drug conjugates enable logic-gated drug delivery amplified by hybridization chain reactionsExplaining the PeV Neutrino Fluxes at KM3NeT and IceCube with Quasiextremal Primordial Black HolesSemi-autonomous exploration of martian and lunar analogues with a legged robot using a Raman-equipped robotic arm and microscopic imagerGEMS JWST: Transmission Spectroscopy of TOI-5205b Reveals Significant Stellar Contamination and a Metal-poor AtmosphereA nearly pristine star from the Large Magellanic CloudSloan Digital Sky SurveyEctopic NMDAR expression in cancer unmasks germline-encoded autoimmunityRoSHI: A Versatile Robot-oriented Suit for Human Data In-the-WildClickGuard: A Trustworthy Adaptive Fusion Framework for Clickbait DetectionMothbox and Mothbot: automated light trap and data processing system for scalable insect monitoringPatterns of host plant use by monarch butterflies revealed through annotation of more than 35,000 community science recordsiNaturalistOne-pass formulas for mean and varianceHold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journalsCollaborating between Bioconductor and R-universe on Development of Common InfrastructureR-UniverseYou can just build your own programming languageT — The Orchestration Engine for Polyglot Data ScienceR Packages:aggreCAT: Mathematically Aggregating Expert Judgmentsravel: AI Copilot for R Analysis Workflows in 'RStudio'

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 10, Call me Isoptera. Get ready for fusion plasma corrections, Alzheimer’s and meat consumption, cytoplasmic tradewinds, a new termite that looks like Moby Dick, immersive dreaming and restfulness, the Artemis II Crew launch, why learning R in 2026 is a good career move, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for February 2026. Science On. References:Combined Influence of Rotation and Scrape-Off Layer Drifts on Recycling Asymmetries in Tokamak PlasmasMeat Consumption and Cognitive Health by APOE GenotypeThe landscape of microbial associations in human cancerCompartmentalized cytoplasmic tradewinds direct soluble proteinsAvoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contactCryptotermes mobydicki (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae), an extraordinary new termite species from French GuianaRapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal nichesImmersive NREM2 dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressureA chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of cheliceratesNASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the MoonHow much information is there for inferringspecies trees?Microdiversity is higher in temperate than in virulentbacteriophages from soil environmentsBaktfold: Sensitive protein functional annotation acrossthe microbial tree of life using structural informationMeet dataviewR: The View() You Always WantedWhy Learning R is a Good Career Move in 2026February 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages R Packages:Taxdiv: Taxonomic Diversity Indices Using Deng EntropyGgrefine: Pretty 'ggplot2' ThemesHexsession: Create a Tile of Logos for Loaded PackagesInsectLabelR: Create Labels for Insect in Collection

Hello and welcome to Science Research Weekly. Get ready for the dangers of cold weather on cardiovascular health, new amphipods aplenty, a list of habitable rocky exoplanet, pico-satellite concepts, mitochondrial flickers, toxin-antidotesystems in vertebrates, and using science to find the best decaf coffee. Science On.References: Cardiovascular disease mortality attributable to monthly non-optimal temperature in the united states: a county-level analysisNew deep-sea Amphipoda from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: 24 new species described under the Sustainable Seabed Knowledge Initiative: One Thousand Reasons campaignBiodiversity boost: 24 new deep-sea species discovered in major Pacific researchProbing the limits of habitability: a catalogue of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zoneText embedding models yield detailed conceptual knowledge maps derived from short multiple-choice quizzesThousands of pico-satellites may transform how phones connect to spaceDynamical Systems in Cosmology: Reviewing An Alternative ApproachMassive star clusters detected by JWST as natural birth places to form intermediate-mass black holesBeyond Pulsing Dyes: Are Flickers the Language of the MitochondrialNetwork? The morphotype approach to classification of aerial animals in radar data A Vertebrate Toxin-Antidote System That Sabotages Mouse EmbryogenesisDigital Biology with R: Advanced Bioinformatics, Predictive Modeling, and Time Series Analysis for Modern Life ScienceUsing science to find the best decafR Packages:Ixsurface: Interactive 3D Surface Plots for Multi-Factor Interaction Visualizationlongitree: Decision Tree Analysis for Longitudinal Measurement DataggforestplotR: Publication-Ready Forest Plots with 'ggplot2'ksformat: 'SAS'-Style 'PROC FORMAT' for Rstopmotion: Build Stop Motion Animations from Image Sequencessubtools: Read and Manipulate Video Subtitlestaxodist: Taxonomic Distance and Phylogenetic Lineage ComputationCardiovascular diseasemortality attributable to monthly non-optimal temperature in the united states:a county-level analysisNew deep-sea Amphipodafrom the Clarion-Clipperton Zone: 24 new species described under theSustainable Seabed Knowledge Initiative: One Thousand Reasons campaignBiodiversity boost: 24new deep-sea species discovered in major Pacific researchProbing the limits ofhabitability: a catalogue of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zoneText embedding modelsyield detailed conceptual knowledge maps derived from short multiple-choicequizzesThousands ofpico-satellites may transform how phones connect to spaceDynamical Systems inCosmology: Reviewing An Alternative ApproachMassive star clustersdetected by JWST as natural birth places to form intermediate-mass black holesBeyond Pulsing Dyes: AreFlickers the Language of the MitochondrialNetwork? The morphotype approachto classification of aerial animals in radar data A VertebrateToxin-Antidote System That Sabotages Mouse EmbryogenesisDigital Biology with R:Advanced Bioinformatics, Predictive Modeling, and Time Series Analysis forModern Life ScienceUsing science to findthe best decaf

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 8, Cellular Senses and Psyche’s Interior. Get ready for cellular mechanosensing, modeling the interior structure of Psyche, microbial succession in soil restoration, and Bayesian Linear regression in R. Science On.References:Emergent depth-mechanosensing of epithelial collectives regulates cell clustering and dispersal on layered matricesExploring the Interior Structure of (16) Psyche Through Basin-Scale CollisionsOrganic, Transparent, and Flexible Films Exhibiting White-Light Emission via Polymer-Network Engineering: A Non-Dye-Centric StrategyGenome-wide discovery of cis-regulatory elements in a large genomeTaxonomic filtering accompanies functional expansion during long-term soil restorationMicroscale spatial fragmentation promotes bacterial survival underantibioticsBayesian Linear Regression in R: A Step-by-Step TutorialR Packages:SCIproj: Creates a Scientific Project Skeleton as an R PackageCausalplot: Create Publication-Ready Causal DiagramsScimetr: Analysis of Scientific Publication Data with R

Hello and welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 7. Get ready for 3D ants via synchrotron, recycled aluminum alloys, chickpeas in lunar regolith, planet collisions, World Mouse, R version "Reassured Reassurer", estimating pi by tossing coins, and a grant on reducing housing hazards. Science On.References:High-throughput phenomics of global ant biodiversityNew ORNL aluminum alloy to strengthen domestic auto supply chainBioremediation of lunar regolith simulant through mycorrhizal fungi and plant symbioses enables chickpea to seedGaia-GIC-1: An Evolving Catastrophic Planetesimal Collision CandidateThe 3D architecture of the ctenophore aboral organ and the evolution of complex integrative centers in animalsCryptic species are widespread across vertebratesSearching for Magnetic White Dwarfs in LAMOST DR10World Mouse: Exploring Interactions with a Cross-Reality CursorHunting for microsatellite instability in long-read data with Owl R 4.5.3 is releasedEstimate pi by tossing coinsHousing-Related Hazards and Lead-Based Paint Capital Fund ProgramR Packages:wstats: Weighted Descriptive Statisticsggwidth: Standardise 'ggplot2' Geom WidthAV1R: 'AV1' Video Encoding for Biological Microscopy Data

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 6. Get ready for quorum sensing for bacterial engineering, an antibiotic-resistant microbe on ice, a new scimitar-crested spinosaurid, planetesimal snowmen, sheepox viral evolution, the fate of horizontally acquired genes, the R Journal Volume 17/4, and a grant for Feed the Future innovation labs. Science On.References:Revision of the trematosaurid Erythrobatrachus noonkanbahensis confirms a cryptic marine temnospondyl community from the Lower Triassic of Western AustraliaConstruction and Functional Characterization of a Heterologous Quorum Sensing Circuit in Clostridium sporogenesFirst genome sequence and functional profiling of Psychrobacter SC65A.3 preserved in 5,000-year-old cave ice: insights into ancient resistome, antimicrobial potential, and enzymatic activitiesScimitar-crested Spinosaurus species from the Sahara caps stepwise spinosaurid radiationDirect contact binary planetesimal formation from gravitational collapseOxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestorExocometary physics: material release and tailsSearches for new physics beyond the Standard Model in hyperon sector3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomesThe fate of horizontally acquired genes: rapid initial turnover followed by long-term persistenceThe R Journal: Volume 17/4Comparing flavor characteristics of Scotch whiskies: A principal component analysisLittle useless-useful R functions – Typing speed benchmarkPathways to Enable Secure Open-Source EcosystemsFeed the Future Innovation LabsR Packages:bigMICE: Multiple Imputation of Big Databracketeer: Tournament Generatorphymapnet: Phylogeny-Guided Bayesian Microbial Network InferencetReeTraits: Calculate Tree Traits from Terrestrial Lidarort: Create a Data Frame Representation of an Imagetinyimg: Optimize and Compress Images