Science Research Weekly

Get ready for non-natural amino acids, screwdriver-toothed mosasaurs, bubble-powered microbots, SAS Hackathon breakthroughs, Amazing Biochemistry Project Topics, and funding support from a little giraffe. Science On.

References:

• A platform for distributed production of synthetic nitrated proteins in live bacteria
• Stelladens mysteriosus: A Strange New Mosasaurid (Squamata) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Moro...

Get ready for human environmental DNA, over-the-top cosmological energy, rafting microbes, bimodal biomass, Julia 1.9’s releases, SAS patents, the freeCodeCamp repository, and Department of Defense melanoma grants. Science On.

References:

• Inadvertent human genomic bycatch and intentional capture raise beneficial applications and ethical concerns with environmental DNA
• A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evo...

Get ready for bacterial metabolism prediction, surprise asteroid belts, SAS-poor AI advice, Kruskal Wallis post-hoc tests, lots of new R packages on regression, and a Carnegie astrophysics fellowship. Science On.

References:

• BacterAI maps microbial metabolism without prior knowledge
• Thermal and chemical properties of the eROSITA bubbles from Suzaku observations
• Spatially resolved imaging of the inner Fomalhaut disk us...

Get ready for planet swelling stars, genome guarding proteins, the largest mammalian genomic dataset in history, Bayesian Spatial Disaggregation Modeling, Computer Science courses, clickable word clouds, and Pre-Clinical Research on Gene Therapies for Rare Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Science On.

References:

• An infrared transient from a star engulfing a planet
• Exciton-Condensate-Like Amplification of Energy Tra...

Get ready for jetting black holes, cancer diagnosis with a strip of paper, the mysterious world of freshwater acoustics, frontiers in fungal biotechnology, transcribing/translating audio with Buzz, and NSF infrastructure grants. Science On.

References:

• A ring-like accretion structure in M87 connecting its black hole and jet
• Galaxy interactions are the dominant trigger for local type 2 quasars
• CRISPR-Cas-amplified urina...

Get ready for space rodents microbiomes; 100-year biobatteries; huge, hot exoplanets; reasons why your Shiny App failed; and ways to use statistics to get funding.

References:

• Specific host metabolite and gut microbiome alterations are associated with bone loss during spaceflight
• Moisture-Enabled Germination of Heat-Activated Bacillus Endospores for Rapid and Practical Bioelectricity Generation: Toward Portable, Storabl...

Get ready for chimeric crazy ants, viruses abounding in protists and infants alike, solar system generation in R, an awesome Python list, and a couple of nifty niche funding opportunities. Science On.

References:

• Obligate chimerism in male yellow crazy ants
• Large-scale invasion of unicellular eukaryotic genomes by integrating DNA viruses
• Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut
• Make “Solar System” ...

Get ready for toxic birds, correlation for days, a flipper-tastic multi-tool, blazing fast Shiny development, and Department of Defense cancer grants as far as the eye can see. Science On.

References:

• Evidence for wastewaters as environments where mobile antibiotic resistance genes emerge
• A Morphological and Spatial Analysis of Volcanoes on Venus
• Multiple mutations in the Nav1.4 sodium channel of New Guinean toxic bird...

Get ready for atomic nuclei views, artificial organelles, AI article generation, PyCon, Simpson's paradox, building your favorite technologies from scratch, and funding to maintain ENCODE. Science On.

References:

• Genome-wide subcellular protein map for the flagellate parasite Trypanosoma brucei
• Artificial organelles for sustainable chemical energy conversion and production in artificial cells: Artificial mitochondri...

Get ready for super microscopes, tardigrade blood stabilization, broken stick modeling, an R version codenamed ‘Already Tomorrow’, a ‘pinecone’ made of Python, and a pitch-style competition for infectious disease funding. Science On.

References:

• Parallelized computational 3D video microscopy of freely moving organisms at multiple gigapixels per second
• Natural and engineered mediators of desiccation tolerance stabilize H...

Get ready for self-healing soft robots, modular NASA robots, Shiny recaps, Statistical Rethinking training, statistical kindergarten, and the NIH Pioneer Award Program. Science On.

References:

• Optical tweezers throw and catch single atoms
• The connectome of an insect brain
• A hydrogenotrophic Sulfurimonas is globally abundant in deep-sea oxygen-saturated hydrothermal plumes
• A self-healing electrically conductive organogel co...

Get ready for technological tribology, tingible translational cell biology, flipping fossils, Volume 14/4 of the R Journal, ebook tips and tricks, and flash grants to fixate on.  Science On.

References:

• Novel friction stabilization technology for surface damage conditions using machine learning
• Crevasse refreezing and signatures of retreat observed at Kamb Ice Stream grounding zone
• Apoptotic cell fragments locally acti...

Get ready for an exploration of the R-Universe, simulated octopus tentacles, effects of Vitamin D and exercise on health, fossil wings and fins, statistical conferences to set your calendar by, and a very special 23rd birthday.  Science On.

References:

• Energy-shaping control of a muscular octopus arm moving in three dimensions
• Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life
• Origin of the p...

Get ready for better arsenic detection, broad-spectrum antibiotics, model-breaking massive galaxies, Julia and Python working in harmony, a hard-to-pronounce R-package on Gaussian mixture models, and Department of Defense lung cancer grants aplenty.  Science On.

References:

• Scalable selective absorber with quasiperiodic nanostructure for low-grade solar energy harvesting
• Toward surface-enhanced Raman scattering using el...

Get ready for exoplanetary systems, missing Neptunes, a Dungeons & Dragons R package, GIFs for top R packages, Tidvyverse functions to save your day, and a whole host of NASA grant announcements.  Science On.

References

• Framework for the architecture of exoplanetary systems
• RNA's 'joints' play key role in our gene expression
• Help! Our Neptune-sized exoplanets are missing
• The ins and outs of an undergrad-run jour...

Get ready for the top 10 errors in R, self-assembling peptides, microbiome mishaps, a theory-defying dwarf planet ring system, and a chance to save tiny hearts.  Science On.

References

• The virtual microbiome: A computational framework to evaluate microbiome analyses
• A dense ring of the trans-Neptunian object Quaoar outside its Roche limit
• 3D Printing of Self-Assembling Nanofibrous Multidomain Peptide Hydrogels
• This on...

Get ready for heart-attack healing hydrogels, super rare supernovas, volumes of viroid sequences, stealth oceans, finding hex logos and packages by topic in CRAN, and NASA funding for exobiology.  Science On.

References

• This groundbreaking biomaterial heals tissues from the inside out
• A high-mass X-ray binary descended from an ultra-stripped supernova
• Mining metatranscriptomes reveals a vast world of viroid-like circul...

Get ready for new deep sea bacterial phyla, extra ancient caecilian fossils, R Journal Volume 14/3 JuliaHub 6.0, visualizing star maps in R, and an IceCube neutrino competition!  Science Research Weekly covers 3 topic areas: Research Articles, Research Tools, and Research Funding.  Science On.

References

• Global patterns of diversity and metabolism of microbial communities in deep-sea hydrothermal vent deposits
• Chem...

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, the successor to my first podcast, Statistics Weekly.  This abbreviated trial run of an episode includes: a research article on microbes from a volcanic island, the largest stellar catalogue to date, Arduino project ideas for 2023, and NSF Research and Development grants.

References:

• The Early Microbial Colonizers of a Short-Lived Volcanic Island in the Kingdom of Tonga
• A high-quality...