Science Research Weekly

Episode 26: Living Cameras and Old Universes

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Get ready for weird whales, bacterial sample collection via lollipop, hints at life on Mars, living digital cameras, a much older universe, free training on 67 programming languages, and a Housing and Urban Development grant for radon detection and mitigation. Science On.


References:

  • Convergent evolution of skim feeding in baleen whales
  • At-Home Saliva Sampling in Healthy Adults Using CandyCollect, a Lollipop-Inspired Device
  • Microeukaryotic predators shape the wastewater microbiome
  • The effects of board games on math skills in children attending prekindergarten and kindergarten: A systematic review
  • Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers
  • A mid-Cambrian tunicate and the deep origin of the ascidiacean body plan
  • Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars
  • A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA
  • JWST early Universe observations and ΛCDM cosmology
  • datasetR – R package for creating datasets
  • Unveiling a New Era in Molecular Visualization: Introducing shiny.molstar for Large Molecular Structures Visualization in R
  • Array Languages: R vs APL
  • exercism
  • HUD: Radon Testing and Mitigation Demonstration for Public Housing
  • DOD: Toxic Exposures


    • R Packages:

    • grpnet: Group Elastic Net Regularized GLM
    • bbmix: Bayesian Model for Genotyping using RNA-Seq
    • TOmicsVis: Transcriptome Visualization Process Scheme
      • ...more
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      Science Research WeeklyBy Mark R Williamson