Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 4, And the Crowd Goes Wild for Chitons. Get ready for genes before the last common ancestor, a new Cold Earth, herbivorous microsaurs, lava tubes on Venus, a publicly-named chiton species, paleontology R packages, and the Protean grant from DARPA. Science On.

References:

• Universal paralogs provide a window into evolution before the last universal common ancestor
• A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2
• Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone?
• Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory
• Ocean Species Discoveries 28–30 — new species of chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) and a public naming competition
• Radar-based observation of a lava tube on Venus
• Formalization and inevitability of the Pareto principle
• Light to Heavy, Brief to Eternal: An Axion for Every Occasion (in the Early Universe)
• Reading TEA leaves for de novo protein design
• A toolkit for programmable transcriptional engineering across eukaryotic kingdoms
• Temporal dynamics of microbiome communities within urban compost piles undergoing the heat process
• Introducing geoboundaries
• Paleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute Grant
• Advancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
• Protean

R Packages:

• mixpower: Simulation-Based Power Analysis for Mixed-Effects Models
• aesopR: Tools for Text Analysis of Aesop's Fables
• ohvbd: One Health VBD Hub
• statuser: Statistical Tools Designed for End Users