Attack of the 50-foot Octopus! (Season 5: Episode 13)

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 13, Attack of the 50-foot Octopus! Get ready for giant predatory Cretaceous octopuses, ice-water clouds on a distant Jupiter, anti-viral acrylic surfaces, 3D printing inside living cells, March’s top 40 new CRAN packages, and a grant on Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems. Science On.References:Compositional selection of phospholipid compartments in icy environments drives the enrichment of encapsulated genetic informationEarliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceansA Second Visit to Eps Ind Ab with JWST: New Photometry Confirms Ammonia and Suggests Thick Clouds in the Exoplanet Atmosphere of the Closest Super-JupiterDesigning Scalable Mechano-Virucidal Nanostructured Acrylic Surfaces for Enhanced Viral InactivationRemoval of Microplastics from Drinking Water by Moringa oleifera Seed: Comparative Performance with Alum in Direct and in-Line Filtration SystemsTwo-Photon 3D Printing of Functional Microstructures Inside Living CellsCAN WE TEACH GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE DESIGNLANGUAGE OF ENGINEERED LIVING MATERIALS? Harnessing AI to Build Virtual CellsUrban soil microbiomes exhibit taxonomic and functional potential for enhanced contaminant cyclingR 4.6.0 is releasedMarch 2026 Top 40 New CRAN PackagesLittle useless-useful R functions – Desk plant simulatorDesign your plots (ggplot) for mobileEngineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS)INSPIRING GENERATIONS OF NEW INNOVATORS TO IMPACT TECHNOLOGIES IN ENERGY 2026 (IGNIITE 2026)John Templeton Foundation - Life SciencesR Packages: rPandas: Translating from R to Python's Pandas Package