Science Research Weekly

Welcome to the final episode of Science Research weekly for 2025. Covering November and December.

Get ready for the PRIMA system to treat age-related blindness, surprising chemistry on Saturn's moon Titan, Kagome tubes for vibration damping in engineering, the R-Multiverse, and a grant on the Foundations of a Resilient Microbiome. Science On.References:Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMDSnOx Nanoflakes as Enhanced Near-Infrared Photothermal Therapy Agents Synthesized from Electrochemically Oxidized SnS2 PowdersHydrogen cyanide and hydrocarbons mix on TitanTopological polarization of kagome tubes and applications toward vibration isolationPotassium-40 isotopic evidence for an extant pre-giant-impact component of Earth’s mantleOverlay multiple custom density curves on a histogram in SASGo for Launch! Packages Shipped to the R-MultiverseWhat’s new for Python in 2025?leap: Foundations of a Resilient MicrobiomeChan Zuckerberg Initiative: Implementation of Synthetic Biology Principles in ImmunologyR Packages:alpmixBayes: Bayesian Estimation for Alpha-Mixture Survival ModelsbayesQRsurvey: Bayesian Quantile Regression Models for Complex Survey Data Analysisarete: Automated REtrieval from TExtnbpInference: Inference on Average Treatment Effects for Continuous Treatmentspartialling.out: Residuals from Partial Regressions

Get ready for neuronal nanotubes, comet versus alien for interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, rain on the Sun, the R Journal 17/2, citation metric distortion, and more new Science Spotlight videos. Science On.References:Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular networkIs the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Alien Technology?Spatiotemporal Low First Ionization Potential Abundance: A Catalyst for Coronal CondensationTree swallows as indicators of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure and effects at select Department of Defense sites along the East Coast and at sites with different sources in the Upper Midwest, United States90% of science is lost. This new AI just found itR Journal Volume 17/2New, work-in-progress book on spatial data visualization in RBeyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic MetricsScience SpotlightR Packages:descsuppRplots: Generate Plots for All Variables in Descriptive Tablesmedicalcoder: Tools for Working with ICD Codes and Comorbidity AlgorithmsGINAX: Performs Genome-Wide Iterative Fine-Mapping for Non-Gaussian Data using GINA-XeasyRef: Easy Reference Generation for R Packages

Get ready for chromosomal instability suppression in breast cancer, the marine origins of leeches, metal-laced hydrogels, better simulations in R, and a grant on Precision Mitochondria. Science On.References:Epigenetic regulation of chromosomal instability by EZH2 methyltransferaseThe first leech body fossil predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million yearsHydrogel-Based Vat Photopolymerization of Ceramics and Metals with Low Shrinkages via Repeated Infusion PrecipitationDeploy Multiple Shiny Apps from One R PackageA new simstudy function to make simulating replications easierARIA: Precision MitochondriaR Packages:mda.biber: Functions for Multi-Dimensional Analysispwranova: Power Analysis of Flexible ANOVA Designs and Related Testssummarytabl: Generate Summary Tables for Continuous, Ordinal, and Categorical Data

Get ready for direct pain relief, pollutant breakdown with biochar, shark-attack resistant wetsuits, an updated timetree for Fungi, edible electronics, simulating the Monty Hall problem in R, the Top 40 New CRAN Packages for August 2025, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award. This episode covers material from September 26th to October 2nd. Science On.References:Targeting prostaglandin E2 receptor 2 in Schwann cells inhibits inflammatory pain but not inflammationThe geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxidesStructure-performance relationship of biochar for direct degradation of organic pollutantsDOLPHIN advances single-cell transcriptomics beyond gene level by leveraging exon and junction readsEffectiveness of bite-resistant materials to reduce injuries from white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) bitesNanotechnology-driven coordination of shoot–root systems enhances rice nitrogen use efficiencyDetection of organic compounds in freshly ejected ice grains from Enceladus’s oceanA timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfersPrinted Integrated Logic Circuits Based on Chitosan-Gated Organic Transistors for Future Edible SystemsSimulating Monty Hall’s ProblemPlotting Distributions in RAugust 2025 Top 40 New CRAN PackagesSpurious Correlations in R – Correlation is not CausationLearning And Exploring The Workflow of RNA-Seq Analysis – A Note To MyselfDARPA: Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026R Packages:eDNAfuns: Working with Metabarcoding Data in a Tidy Formatspuriouscorrelations: Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations