Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 10, Call me Isoptera. Get ready for fusion plasma corrections, Alzheimer’s and meat consumption, cytoplasmic tradewinds, a new termite that looks like Moby Dick, immersive dreaming and restfulness, the Artemis II Crew launch, why learning R in 2026 is a good career move, and the top 40 new CRAN packages for February 2026. Science On.

References:

• Combined Influence of Rotation and Scrape-Off Layer Drifts on Recycling Asymmetries in Tokamak Plasmas
• Meat Consumption and Cognitive Health by APOE Genotype
• The landscape of microbial associations in human cancer
• Compartmentalized cytoplasmic tradewinds direct soluble proteins
• Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact
• Cryptotermes mobydicki (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae), an extraordinary new termite species from French Guiana
• Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches
• Immersive NREM2 dreaming preserves subjective sleep depth against declining sleep pressure
• A chelicera-bearing arthropod reveals the Cambrian origin of chelicerates
• NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon
• How much information is there for inferring
• species trees?
• Microdiversity is higher in temperate than in virulent
• bacteriophages from soil environments
• Baktfold: Sensitive protein functional annotation across
• the microbial tree of life using structural information
• Meet dataviewR: The View() You Always Wanted
• Why Learning R is a Good Career Move in 2026
• February 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

R Packages:

• Taxdiv: Taxonomic Diversity Indices Using Deng Entropy
• Ggrefine: Pretty 'ggplot2' Themes
• Hexsession: Create a Tile of Logos for Loaded Packages
• InsectLabelR: Create Labels for Insect in Collection