Eeny, Meeny, Mimas, Moe (Season 3: Episode 7)

Get ready for a mini Mimas ocean, microbes for low-cost molecular biology, Ordovician fossils from France, a 3D-printed titanium metamaterial, Emacs for R, and a NASA omnibus funding announcement chock full of opportunity. Science On. References: A recently formed ocean inside Saturn’s moon Mimas Efficient natural plasmid transformation of Vibrio natriegens enables zero-capital molecular biology The quest for superheavy elements and the limit of the periodic table The Cabrières Biota (France) provides insights into Ordovician polar ecosystems Pleural macrophages translocate to the lung during infection to promote improved influenza outcomes Titanium Multi-Topology Metamaterials with Exceptional Strength An exact formula for the sampling distribution of the correlation coefficient NIA Career Transition Award NASA ROSES: Astrophysics Data Analysis Program NASA ROSES: New Frontiers Data Analysis Program NASA ROSES: Exobiology R Packages: circlesplot: Visualize Proportions with Circles in a Plot multe: Multiple Treatment Effects Regression valentine: Spread the Love for R Packages with Poetry