A weekly overview of helpful scientific research topics and the successor of the podcast Statistics Weekly. Every week, I will cover 3 topic areas: Research Articles, Research Tools, and Research Funding. Science On.
Expand Your Scientific Scope (Season 5: Episode 15)
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
11 May 2026
Not-so-Rarified Space (Season 5: Episode 14)
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
4 May 2026
Attack of the 50-foot Octopus! (Season 5: Episode 13)
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
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