Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 3, Cave Robots in Space. Get ready for endoplasmic reticulum remodeling, marine bacteria streamlining shortcomings, robotic run-throughs of space-cave explorations, non-exponential growth for AI, viral protein immune escape constraints, the Top 40 new CRAN packages of December 2025, and pilot projects from the NIH on using common fund data sets. Science On.

References:

ER remodelling is a feature of ageing and depends on ER-phagy

Cell cycle dysregulation of globally important SAR11 bacteria resulting from environmental perturbation

Cooperative robotic exploration of a planetary skylight surface and lava cave

Protein Autoregressive Modeling via Multiscale Structure Generation

Primordial black holes as cosmic accelerators of light dark matter: Novel direct detection constraints

Are AI Capabilities Increasing Exponentially? A Competing Hypothesis

Habitat fragmentation controls bacterial community composition outcomes

Constrained Evolutionary Funnels Shape Viral Immune Escape

A deep-learning-based score to evaluate multiple sequence alignments

December 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages

caugi (Causal Inference), phylospatia (Genetics), distionary (Statistics), svgedit (Utilities)

Pilot Projects Enhancing Utility and Usage of Common Fund Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

R Packages:

regextable: Pattern-Based Text Extraction and Standardization with Lookup Tables

fru: A Blazing Fast Implementation of Random Forest

marinepredator: Marine Predators Algorithm