Science Research Weekly

Get ready for supermassive black hole mergers, ultrarare disease diagnoses, dark oceanic oxygen, super-sized T. rex, aliases for R expressions, and a grant for educational materials on scientific rigor. Science On. References: The Cambrian Odaraia alata and the colonization of nektonic suspension-feeding niches by early mandibulates Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of S...

Get ready for virus-enhanced cancer, mammalian functional diversity across the ages, characteristics of the Last Universal Common Ancestor, autocorrelation in R, and research awards from Sony. Science On. References: Endogenous retroviruses mediate transcriptional rewiring in response to oncogenic signaling in colorectal cancer Unique functional diversity during early Cenozoic mammal radiation of...

Get ready for alarm-ringing bacteria, dark comets, weaponized introns for inter-viral competition, random walks in R, and taxonomic names in R markdown. Science On. References: Pneumococcal competence is a populational health sensor driving multilevel heterogeneity in response to antibiotics The dynamical origins of the dark comets and a proposed evolutionary track An intron endonuclease facilitat...

Get ready for missing ocean nitrification, DNA transformation with IMPRINT, a Loki-inspired dinosaur discovery, Psychology in the Big Book of R, A timeline of R's first 30 years, and a grant on the gut microbiome for human health. Science On. References: Rhizobia–diatom symbiosis fixes missing nitrogen in the ocean A cell-free transcription-translation pipeline for recreating methylation patte...

Get ready for waves on Titan, glassy gels, tardigrade CRISPR gene-editing, a waking black hole, Race for Your Life in R, the Genie App Competition 2024, and a grant on precision probiotic therapies. References: Signatures of wave erosion in Titan’s coasts Glassy gels toughened by solvent Plasma proteomics identify biomarkers predicting Parkinson’s disease up to 7 years before symptom onset Aging a...

Get ready for astronomy fixes for microscopy misses, 3D-printed soft robot actuator hands, cosmic kidney disease, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Linear Models, and a grant to understand oral phage biology. Science On. References: Phase-diversity-based wavefront sensing for fluorescence microscopy Fully 3D-Printed Miniature Soft Hydraulic Actuators with Shape Memory Effect for Morphing and Manipulation...

Get ready for rival to PRC, a massive antimicrobial peptide catalog, the One Billon Row Challenge in R, and custom color palettes for ggplot. Science On. References: AMPLON: Amplifying DNA with Multiarm Priming and Looping Optimization of Nucleic Acid Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning Journal of Statistical Software Volume 109 R One Billion Row Chal...

Get ready for mini-double-satellites, stomp-rocket volcanoes, exoplanets galore, and leech-like blood collection devices. Science On. References: A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh Cell-type-specific consequences of mosaic structural variants in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells Follow-up to Adolescence after Early Peanut Introduction for Allergy Prevention Explosi...

Get ready for marathonic vibrating strings, widespread cell cannibalism, spiny fossil arachnids, a Hex Logo Design Context for R packages, and a new NASA program element for a Consortium in Biological Sciences. Science On. References: Centimeter-scale nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation Integrating human endogenous retroviruses into transcriptome-wide association studies highlights nove...

Get ready for a cotton candy planet, 3D printing bristleworms, robotic ‘SuperLimbs’, Bioconductor 3.19, dire direction to document your R code, and playing Doom on Shiny. Science On. References: An extended low-density atmosphere around the Jupiter-sized planet WASP-193 b Ribosomal DNA copy number variation associates with hematological profiles and renal function in the UK Biobank Dynamic microvi...

Get ready for magnetic water cleaning microbots, myelin regeneration, the search for quantum gravity, visualizing missing values in SAS, and a grant for transformative cancer research. Science On. References: Magnetic Microrobot Swarms with Polymeric Hands Catching Bacteria and Microplastics in Water Small-molecule-induced epigenetic rejuvenation promotes SREBP condensation and overcomes barriers...

Get ready for picky archaeal parasites, a cosmic glitch in gravity, super sticky adhesive, Volume 15/4 of The R Journal, sketchy waffle charts, Super Saiyan Data Skills, and a Department of Defense grant for cancer. Science On. References: Selective lipid recruitment by an archaeal DPANN symbiont from its host A cosmic glitch in gravity Fibrillar adhesives with unprecedented adhesion strength, swi...

Get ready for friendly giant viruses, the ancient origins of bioluminescence, sneaky bacteria, R codename Puppy Cup, a Super Mario Bros. explanation of R piping, and grants for rare cancer research. Science On. References: A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia Burkholderia thailandensis uses a type VI secretion...

Get ready for umbrella antibiotics, staring into the nanovoid, blue-whale-sized ichthyosaurs (maybe), and astrodynamics knot theory applications. Science On! References: Streptomyces umbrella toxin particles block hyphal growth of competing species Beyond nothingness in the formation and functional relevance of voids in polymer films The last giants: New evidence for giant Late Triassic (Rhaetian)...

Get ready for the pan-cancer microbiome, auto-parameterizing 3D printing, Bergmann’s rule busted for dinosaurs, and Proca stars made out of dark matter. Science On! References: A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer Human brain small extracellular vesicles contain selectively packaged, full-length mRNA Online Measurement for Parameter Discovery in Fused Filament Fabrication A...

Get ready for neoavian phylogenetics, marvelous metafluids, the search for dark photon dark matter, normalization and scaling in R, Highcharts for interactive and animated charts, and a grant on rare diseases. Science On. References: A region of suppressed recombination misleads neoavian phylogenomics Shell buckling for programmable metafluids First Results from a Broadband Search for Dark Photon...

Get ready for the smallest starquake, migraine risks in young stroke, tardigrade biostasis, too many colors spoiling the graph, Bioconductor Conference 2024, and a subset of Department of Defense grants on human health. Science On. References: Protective effect of PDE4B subtype-specific inhibition in an App knock-in mouse model for Alzheimer’s disease Expanding the frontiers of cool-dwarf asterose...

Get ready for leafhopper cloaking technology, the question of a dark matter-less universe, life at the extremes of inactive hydrothermal vents, not caring about the Levene’s test, and a grant on brain changes across longer time spans. Science On. References: Geometric design of antireflective leafhopper brochosomes Testing CCC+TL Cosmology with Observed Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Features Inactiv...

Get ready for bile acid modification, Pizza Pi, pre-print propensity using R, and a grant on misfolding proteins. Science On. References: High-quality semiconductor fibres via mechanical design Trabectedin derails transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair to induce DNA breaks in highly transcribed genes The underappreciated diversity of bile acid modifications Newsletter March 2024 - Genie...

Get ready for low-oxygen Europa, low-mutational nematode genomes, museum-loads of 3D scanned vertebrates, A Steve’s Data Tips and Tricks hat trick plus one, and a NSF grant on AI and math. Science On. References: Oxygen production from dissociation of Europa’s water-ice surface Environmental radiation exposure at Chornobyl has not systematically affected the genomes or chemical mutagen tolerance p...

Get ready for the brightest quasar of them all, biomolecule chirality mysteries, a Biomedical Engineering roadmap, the release of R’s Angel Food Cake, the release of JuliaHub’s Genie Builder, and Shiny for clinical trial reporting. Science On. References: The accretion of a solar mass per day by a 17-billion solar mass black hole Symmetry breaking and chiral amplification in prebiotic ligation rea...

Get ready for blazing computer processing speeds, a link between fine particulate matter and Alzheimer’s Disease, mammalian gene insertion with bird retrotransposons, experimental confirmation of altermagnets, The Journal of Statistical Software Volume 108, a free R/Shiny eBook, and an NSF grant on acceleration of protein design. Science On. References: Simultaneous and Heterogenous Multithreading...

Get ready for a mini Mimas ocean, microbes for low-cost molecular biology, Ordovician fossils from France, a 3D-printed titanium metamaterial, Emacs for R, and a NASA omnibus funding announcement chock full of opportunity. Science On. References: A recently formed ocean inside Saturn’s moon Mimas Efficient natural plasmid transformation of Vibrio natriegens enables zero-capital molecular biology T...

Get ready for memory B cells that react to allergens, a cosmic chicken and egg questions with black holes and galaxies, the ecological importance of tiny plankton, the spectacular shape of ancient trees, triangular art in Julia, elliptical hearts in SAS, and the 400th entry in the Big Book of R. Science On. References: Type 2–polarized memory B cells hold allergen-specific IgE memory Locomotion an...

Get ready for a newborn great white shark sighting, an ancient Martian lakebed, a potential new kingdom of viruses, the twin mysteries of correlation and covariance in R, and a clinical trial grant focused on natural products. Science On. References: Novel aerial observations of a possible newborn white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in Southern California Ground penetrating radar observations of...