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 potential
• Large-scale Structure in COSMOS-Web: Tracing Galaxy Evolution in the Cosmic Web up to z ∼ 7 with the Largest JWST Survey
• Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function
• Load Identification in Bistable Spacecraft Booms
• via Parametric Data-Driven Modeling
• "Like Taking the Path of Least Resistance": Exploring the Impact of LLM Interaction on the Creative Process of Programming
• Discovery and characterisation of OMVs produced by the bee gut microbiota
• TumorArchetypeR: A modular framework to derive
• signature-based tumor subtypes
• Learning Data Science: Why a High R^2 Can Be Misleading
• Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESI)

R Packages:

• marsruntime: Portable Mars Runtime Replay
• QsRutils: R Functions Useful for Community Ecology
• ROCsurvcomp: ROC-Based Methods for Comparing Survival Distributions with Right, Left, and Doubly Censored Data
• warmthcompetence: Warmth and Competence Detectors