Month: July 2019

IMAGE: NIST physicist Katie McCormick adjusts a mirror to steer a laser beam used to cool a trapped beryllium ion (electrically charged atom). McCormick and colleagues got the ion to display… view more  Credit: Burrus/NIST Showcasing precise control at the quantum level, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method
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Transporting droplets on solid surfaces at high speed and long distance, even against gravity, without additional force has been a formidable task. But a research team comprising scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and three other universities and research institutes has recently devised a novel mechanism to transport droplets at record-high velocity and
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With Marvel’s MCU Phase 4 rapidly approaching, it’s almost surprising that it has taken this long for the Taskmaster to show his skull-covered face. Taskmaster has been taking on various Marvel heroes since 1980 and has gone on to star in two miniseries while getting the occasional supporting character role. He’s on that border where
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At San Diego Comic Con 2019, the team behind The CW’s DC shows revealed quite a bit about next season’s big crossover, Crisis on Infinite Earths. Among the news: Tom Cavanagh (who plays the various Harrison Wellses of the multiverse) will be playing Pariah from the comics. That’s…a pretty deep cut. They could have gone
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The Batwoman TV series is coming to The CW, bringing Bruce Wayne’s cousin, Kate Kane, to the Arrowverse. Caroline Dries (The Vampire Diaries) will serve as the writer and will executive produce, along with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Geoff Johns. Marcos Siega directed the pilot. He brings a vast CV from director/producer TV runs on Dexter, The Following and The Vampire
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At their San Diego Comic Con screening of the next DC Universe Movie, Batman: Hush, DC announced their animated slate for 2020, and they led with a great one. Superman: Red Son is the first movie on the slate for 2020. It’s based on the 2003 comic from Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Killian Plunkett,
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The world is full of Watchmen purists, people who believe the original comic is sacrosanct and inviolable, and that any attempt to follow it up is doomed to failure because it misses the point of the original. And then there are people like Damon Lindelof, who decided to make a Watchmen TV series for HBO
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While many people like to toss around the term “Netflix for gaming,” the Google Stadia team would prefer if people don’t associate Stadia Pro with that concept.  “To be clear, Stadia Pro is not ‘Netflix for Games’ like some people have mentioned,” writes Google Stadia director of product Andrey Doronichev as part of a Reddit AMA.
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What will likely be the final Hall H panel dedicated to Game of Thrones (at least until a major anniversary down the road) had an unusual duality to it Friday evening. Announced as something of a victory lap for HBO’s once universally beloved fantasy series, tonight’s Game of Thrones San Diego Comic-Con panel doubled as
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No one could have predicted how huge and important Marvel’s mid-’00s content would turn out in the long run. On Earth, Captain America and Iron Man were duking it out in Civil War. On Sakaar, Bruce Banner’s alter-ego was being reinvented and turned into a big deal once again in Planet Hulk. Everywhere else, Annihilus was
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AMC has greenlit a third Walking Dead series that is set to begin production this summer in Virginia. The new, untitled series, which will have a 10-episode first season, will air in 2020.  The series was co-created by Walking Dead chief content officer Scott M. Gimple and longtime TWD writer Matt Negrete, who will also
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Talk about putting the cart before the horse. A week after news leaked of Aya Cash joining the cast of The Boys Season 2, The Boys season 2 now actually exists. Variety confirmed the news prior to The Boys panel at SDCC 2019.  The Boys will unleash an unapologetically ultraviolent response to the entertainment industry’s
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Netflix screened some impressive footage at its The Witcher panel during San Diego Comic Con, showcasing the three main character who will star in this fantasy element adapted from the Polish book series by Andrzej Sapkowski which was previously adapted into a wildly popular video game series. The books and game follow Geralt (Henry Cavill), a
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IMAGE: The initial positions of the atoms in this computer model of a solid-oxide fuel cell were based on observations of the actual atomic configuration using electron microscopy. Simulations using this… view more  Credit: Michihisa Koyama, Kyushu University Simulations from researchers in Japan provide new insights into the reactions occurring in solid-oxide fuel cells by using
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IMAGE: A heated tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is brought close to a cold substrate so that a single molecule can bridge the gap between them. view more  Credit: Jan C. Kloeckner Combining novel theoretical and experimental approaches, researchers from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South Korea), the University of Konstanz (Germany)
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After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has finally succeeded in measuring how heat passes between two gold electrodes through a single molecule. They report their findings in Nature on July 17, 2019. Around 2000, scientists first measured
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Reno Jackson, one of Hearthstone‘s most popular cards/characters ever, return in the game’s upcoming Saviors of Uldum expansion.  As revealed at SDCC 2019, Reno Jackson will be a Mage legendary card that cost six mana, has four attack, six health, and a Battlecry effect that reads “If your deck has no duplicates, deal 10 damage randomly
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It makes sense to chase what has been proven to work before and if The CW has learned anything in the last decade, it’s that Winchesters are forever (or at least 15 years), superheroes pay, and everyone loves Riverdale. It’s that last lesson that feels like a particular motivating factor in one of the network’s
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This year marks 20 years since Batman Beyond first showed up on television, and to celebrate, the cast of the beloved series revealed at SDCC 2019 that the show is getting a Blu-ray remastered re-release. Bruce Timm, Andrea Romano, Best Batman Kevin Conroy, and Best Spider-Man Will Friedle made the announcement during the show’s 20th-anniversary panel
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IMAGE: A micro-bristle-bot is shown next to a US penny for size comparison. view more  Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. Swarms of these “micro-bristle-bots” might work together to sense environmental changes, move
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