Episode 26: Living Cameras and Old Universes

Get ready for weird whales, bacterial sample collection via lollipop, hints at life on Mars, living digital cameras, a much older universe, free training on 67 programming languages, and a Housing and Urban Development grant for radon detection and mitigation. Science On. References: Convergent evolution of skim feeding in baleen whales At-Home Saliva Sampling in Healthy Adults Using CandyCollect, a Lollipop-Inspired Device Microeukaryotic predators shape the wastewater microbiome The effects of board games on math skills in children attending prekindergarten and kindergarten: A systematic review Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers A mid-Cambrian tunicate and the deep origin of the ascidiacean body plan Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA JWST early Universe observations and ΛCDM cosmology datasetR – R package for creating datasets Unveiling a New Era in Molecular Visualization: Introducing shiny.molstar for Large Molecular Structures Visualization in R Array Languages: R vs APL exercism HUD: Radon Testing and Mitigation Demonstration for Public Housing DOD: Toxic Exposures R Packages: grpnet: Group Elastic Net Regularized GLM bbmix: Bayesian Model for Genotyping using RNA-Seq TOmicsVis: Transcriptome Visualization Process Scheme