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 inflammation
• The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides
• Structure-performance relationship of biochar for direct degradation of organic pollutants
• DOLPHIN advances single-cell transcriptomics beyond gene level by leveraging exon and junction reads
• Effectiveness of bite-resistant materials to reduce injuries from white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) bites
• Nanotechnology-driven coordination of shoot–root systems enhances rice nitrogen use efficiency
• Detection of organic compounds in freshly ejected ice grains from Enceladus’s ocean
• A timetree of Fungi dated with fossils and horizontal gene transfers
• Printed Integrated Logic Circuits Based on Chitosan-Gated Organic Transistors for Future Edible Systems
• Simulating Monty Hall’s Problem
• Plotting Distributions in R
• August 2025 Top 40 New CRAN Packages
• Spurious Correlations in R – Correlation is not Causation
• Learning And Exploring The Workflow of RNA-Seq Analysis – A Note To Myself
• DARPA: Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2026

R Packages:

• eDNAfuns: Working with Metabarcoding Data in a Tidy Format
• spuriouscorrelations: Datasets with Strong and Spurious Correlations