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

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 elucidation
• Oral administration of arginine suppresses Aβ pathology in animal models of Alzheimer's disease
• Multiple independent genetic code reassignments of the UAG stop codon in phyllopharyngean ciliates
• Detection of an atmosphere on a trans-Neptunian object beyond Pluto
• Bioprinting of Microtissues Within Mechanically Tunable Support Baths to Engineer Anisotropic Musculoskeletal Tissues
• PhysForge: Generating Physics-Grounded 3D Assets for Interactive Virtual World
• ProtSpace: Protein Universe in Your Browser
• DoW Peer Reviewed Cancer, Idea Award
• Bioengineering 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 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