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 information
• Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans
• A Second Visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: New Photometry Confirms Ammonia and Suggests Thick Clouds in the Exoplanet Atmosphere of the Closest Super-Jupiter
• Designing Scalable Mechano-Virucidal Nanostructured Acrylic Surfaces for Enhanced Viral Inactivation
• Removal of Microplastics from Drinking Water by Moringa oleifera Seed: Comparative Performance with Alum in Direct and in-Line Filtration Systems
• Two-Photon 3D Printing of Functional Microstructures Inside Living Cells
• CAN WE TEACH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE DESIGN
• LANGUAGE OF ENGINEERED LIVING MATERIALS?
• Harnessing AI to Build Virtual Cells
• Urban soil microbiomes exhibit taxonomic and functional potential for enhanced contaminant cycling
• R 4.6.0 is released
• March 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
• Little useless-useful R functions – Desk plant simulator
• Design your plots (ggplot) for mobile
• Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS)
• INSPIRING GENERATIONS OF NEW INNOVATORS TO IMPACT TECHNOLOGIES IN ENERGY 2026 (IGNIITE 2026)
• John Templeton Foundation - Life Sciences

R Packages:

• rPandas: Translating from R to Python's Pandas Package