Get ready for Parkinson’s disease sniffing dogs; the bladed microtube scheme for massive magnetic fields; a giant, spinning black hole merger; ghost galaxies; lasagna plots in SAS; and an NSF grant on Programmable Cloud Laboratories. Science On.

References:

• Trained dogs can detect the odor of Parkinson's disease
• Gigagauss magnetic field generation by bladed microtube implosion
• Dynamic Organization of Cells in Colonic Epithelium is Encoded by Five Biological Rules
• GW231123: a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265
• Encoding hierarchical 3D architecture through inverse design of programmable bonds
• 100 ghost galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way—and we’re just now uncovering them
• Journal of Statistical Software Volume 113
• Use a lasagna plot to visualize US gas prices
• Exploring R and Rust in Bioinformatics – Online Developer Forum, 28 July 2025
• How to choose an IDE
• Standard Deviation vs. Standard Error: Meaning, Misuse, and the Math Behind the Confusion
• NSF Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories
• NASA ROSES 2025: F.9 Citizen Science Seed Funding Program

R Packages:

• rfriend: Provides Batch Functions and Visualisation for Basic Statistical Procedures
• clusterWebApp: Universal Clustering Analysis Platform
• fusedTree: Fused Partitioned Regression for Clinical and Omics Data
• ironseed: Improved Random Number Generator Seeding
• junco: Create Common Tables and Listings Used in Clinical Trials
• ggtranslate: A 'ggplot2' Extension for Translating Plot Text