CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have developed an improved technique for using magnetic nanoclusters to kill hard-to-reach tumors. Magnetic nanoparticles – tiny pieces of matter as small as one-billionth of a meter – have shown anti-cancer promise for tumors easily accessible by syringe, allowing the particles to be injected directly into the
Month: June 2019
Nature has a way of finding optimal solutions to complex problems. For example, despite the billions of ways for a single protein to fold, proteins always fold in a way that minimizes potential energy. Slime mold, a brainless organism, always finds the most efficient route to a food source, even when presented with an obstacle.
In the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, on a late afternoon in August, decades of research culminated in a moment of stress as the tiny, groundbreaking Robobee made its first solo flight. Graduate student Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, PhD ’19, and postdoctoral fellow Noah T. Jafferis from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
PlayStation Plus is Sony’s membership club for those of us who use the PS4, PS3, and/or PS Vita consoles. Sony’s current pricing structure offers 1-month membership at $9.99, 3-month membership at $24.99, and 12-month membership at $59.99. You can also buy PS Plus memberships through places like Amazon. And what do you get for your money? Well,
IMAGE: This is an illustration of a prototype of what may, in the future, serve as a link to connect quantum computers. view more Credit: IST Austria/Philip Krantz, Krantz NanoArt Entanglement is one of the main principles of quantum mechanics. Physicists from Professor Johannes Fink’s research group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST
Nanowires promise to make LEDs more colorful and solar cells more efficient, in addition to speeding up computers. That is, provided that the tiny semiconductors convert electric energy into light, and vice versa, at the right wavelengths. A research team at the German Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has managed to produce nanowires with operating wavelengths that
Penny Dreadful may have been a beloved, star-studded peak television offering that closed up shop after just three seasons, but the classic-literature-crossover Showtime supernatural series will continue its legacy with a sequel series. The premium cable channel dropped major details back in November about a follow-up series, titled Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. While the
Den of Geek had a chance to speak with Gary Dauberman, writer and director of Annabelle Comes Home. Dauberman makes his debut behind the camera on the film, but has written a number of scripts in the Annabelle/Conjuring universe as well as working on the screenplays for It and It: Chapter Two with director Andy
IMAGE: Researchers at MIT have developed a system for converting the molecular structures of proteins, the basic building blocks of all living beings, into audible sound that resembles musical passages. Then,… view more Credit: Zhao Qin and Francisco Martin-Martinez Want to create a brand new type of protein that might have useful properties? No problem. Just
We previously talked about the release of a Commodore 64 Mini that we were less than enthusiastic about at the time. It turns out the final release of that console was indeed somewhat disappointing as it didn’t even feature a fully-functional keyboard. Now, however, there is a Commodore 64 Mini alternative that may just fill
“Now I’m waiting til the end of time to hurry up and arrive,” Meat Loaf sang on the seventies radio staple “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” His character had just promised to love co-singer Ellen Foley until the end of tme. Investigation Discovery’s upcoming all-new original series Til Death Do Us Part explores couples who
IMAGE: Samarium sulfide doped with various rare earth elements shrinks as the temperature increases from about minus 175°C to about 40-60°C. Shown here is the relative linear shrinkage compared to the… view more Credit: K. Takenaka/John Wojdylo One way that heat damages electronic equipment is it makes components expand at different rates, resulting in forces that
Release Date: June 27, 2019 Platform: PC (reviewed), PS4, XBO, Switch Developer: Frogwares Publisher: Bigben Interactive Genre: Action/Adventure At its best, The Sinking City embodies the best of the greatest (or at least most notable) detective games of the last 10 years or so. It’s got the big budget and cinematic cases of L.A. Noire, the supernatural twists of Murdered: Soul Suspect, the attempts at
IMAGE: Background: a real experiment image of electron density from one of the group’s microscopes. Inset: the architecture of ANN that were trained to ‘look at’ such images and report back… view more Credit: JC Séamus Davis For the last 100 years materials such as gold and silicon have been conduits to the force which has
IMAGE: The Graphene Flagship participates in a sounding-rocket launch in collaboration with the European Space Agency to test the printing of graphene devices in space. view more Credit: Christophe Minetti, ULB Graphene Flagship partners, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Pisa and the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the
Scream Season 3 if actually going to make air! Fans of the TV reboot series for the meta-minded bellwether horror movie franchise have waited nearly three years since the second season on MTV capped off its summer 2016 run with an October-airing Halloween special that year. However, after a leadership shakeup at MTV, subsequent plans
IMAGE: Chiral sites (trees)are inserted between two layers of graphite-phase carbon nitride (cloud layers). The ‘trees’ can catch the left-handed molecules (Six Ears) while allowing the right-handed ones (Monkey King) to… view more Credit: Image by CUI Jie Prof. LIU Bo and colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have developed a
The living cell can be viewed as a factory where protein machines are in charge of various processes, such as transport of material inside the cell or operations with other macromolecules like DNA. Their operation is typically fueled by ATP molecules, the major energy carrier in biological cells. The chemical energy gained through ATP hydrolysis
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order might finally be giving Star Wars fans what they want — a story-focused game set in the galaxy far, far away sans loot boxes — but it’s also impossible to ignore how familiar it looks. Scheduled for release this holiday, Jedi: Fallen Order is an action-adventure game developed by Respawn, makers
IMAGE: Remote-controlled implantable nanochannel drug delivery system (nDS) created by nanomedicine researchers at Houston Methodist Research Institute. view more Credit: Houston Methodist People with chronic diseases like arthritis, diabetes and heart disease may one day forego the daily regimen of pills and, instead, receive a scheduled dosage of medication through a grape-sized implant that is remotely
Editor’s Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back to see what Amazon Prime has in the realm of TV classics. Updated for July 2019 You can see a complete list of Amazon new releases here. If you’ve exhausted the 25 comic book, sci-fi and fantasy TV shows on Amazon Prime Video, and
You ever wonder what was going on with like, Ox, Montana, and Fancy Dan while Spider-Man was off fighting the Skrull invasion in Secret Invasion? Or what Rupert Thorne was up to as the multiverse was collapsing around Batman in Crisis on Infinite Earths? Action Comics #1012 is pretty much precisely that for the criminal
We hope that this will end up being one of the strangest stories we bring you this week, but Bond 25 director Cary Fukunaga has denied rumors that production on the latest Bond movie was delayed due to his addiction to Red Dead Redemption 2. This all started when The Sun (a source which has traditionally
IMAGE: Eucalyptus bark extract has never been used to synthesise graphene sheets before. view more Credit: RMIT University Graphene is the thinnest and strongest material known to humans. It’s also flexible, transparent and conducts heat and electricity 10 times better than copper, making it ideal for anything from flexible nanoelectronics to better fuel cells. The new
This article is sponsored by the upcoming movie Anna. The Cold War may be long over, but espionage is making a comeback. Every day brings new details of spy rings in capitals, and commanders-in-chief welcoming the aid of foreign intelligence to win elections, but on the big screen the thrall of spooks has never been
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has covered a lot of ground in the past 35 years. There are so many different takes on “four reptiles in eye masks who fight crime with ninjitsu” that it’s honestly hard to keep count of all the different continuities. From the gritty Frank Miller homages of the earliest comics to
IMAGE: Left: tracks of rhodopsin diffusion in the disc membrane (each molecule is a different color). Center: dynamic equilibrium model of the three patterns obtained using machine learning based on Bayes… view more Credit: Kobe University Photoreceptor cells in our eyes can adjust to both weak and strong light levels, but we still don’t know exactly
Researchers at the University of Surrey believe their tin based perovskite solar cell could clear the runway for solar panel technology to take off and help the UK reach its 2050 carbon neutral goal. As countries look to get to grips with climate change, solar cell technology is rapidly growing in popularity as an environmentally
The Just Dance series has been a surprise staple for the Nintendo Wii over the last several years, but Ubisoft has confirmed that Just Dance 2020 will not only be the last Just Dance title for the Wii but possibly the last Nintendo Wii title ever made. “I think we are the last soldier standing!”
This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers. Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 4 There’s a lot to like about “Skidmark,” which is ostensibly a typical day in the life of Rubén Blades’s Daniel Salazar—or at least a typical day for someone navigating the vagaries of life in the post-apocalypse. There’s the usual foraging for
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