Science Research Weekly
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.
Episodes
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Get ready for umbrella antibiotics, staring into the nanovoid, blue-whale-sized ichthyosaurs (maybe), and astrodynamics knot theory applications. Science On!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Get ready for bile acid modification, Pizza Pi, pre-print propensity using R, and a grant on misfolding proteins. Science On.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Get ready for blockchain for biology, ancient microbe metabolisms, false vacuum decay evidence, angles vs. slopes, and a grant on convergence research. Science On.
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Get ready for an ancient black hole, capturing the complexity of fragile ocean life, the magnetic map of the Milky Way, Six not-so-basic R functions, the Six degrees of Hadley Wickham, and a grant on agricultural genomes to phenomes. Science On.
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Get ready for rolling ringbots, cancer cannibalizing cells, the R Journal Volume 15/3, a new Bioconductor website, a beginner's guide to probability distributions in R, and an EPA grant to reduce air pollution in schools. Science On.
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