Month: July 2019

Biomedical engineer Ashish Kulkarni, assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been awarded a four-year, $792,000 grant from the American Cancer Society to advance his interdisciplinary lab’s promising cancer immunotherapy research. Building on the groundbreaking discoveries from an earlier study involving melanoma and breast cancer in animal models, the new
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The Bureau of Reclamation announced that 30 projects will receive $5.1 million from the Desalination and Water Purification Research Program to develop improved and inexpensive ways to desalinate and treat impaired water. “We are awarding grants to a diverse group of projects to reduce the cost, energy consumption and environmental impacts of treating impaired or
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IMAGE: Illustration of the ion trap that forms the heart of NIST’s quantum logic clock. The trap is the gold structure with the cross-shaped cutout. The inset shows the aluminum ion… view more  Credit: S. Burrows/JILA The quantum logic clock–perhaps best known for showing you age faster if you stand on a stool–has climbed back to
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IMAGE: These are schematics of and artificial neural network that can design structural parameters and material simultaneously. When desired optical properties (electric/magnetic dipole spectrum) is inputted, each thickness and types of… view more  Credit: POSTECH Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties not found in naturally occurring materials and they are best known as materials
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Doug Lawrence, known professionally as Mr. Lawrence, is an integral part of SpongeBob SquarePants’ DNA. As a writer, story editor, and general co-conspirator to creator Stephen Hillenburg, as well as the voice of Plankton and several others of Bikini Bottom’s finest (MY LEEEEG!!!), Mr. Lawrence is hugely responsible for SpongeBob being the beloved animated institution
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Happy Comic-Con Eve, all! I had a whole “‘Twas the night before Comic Con” bit lined up, but APPARENTLY it’s considered a faux pas to reveal the location of the annual SDCC post-Eisners key party on the internet, so you’ll have to just hang out here for a while as we pick over the list
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Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games next title is a horror series called The Dark Pictures Anthology. The first installment is called Man of Medan, which will treat players to plenty of scares aboard a haunted ship.  Much like Until Dawn, the games in the Dark Pictures Anthology will keep track of the player’s choices and present different versions of
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We’ve got a rule ’round the old Den. It’s a simple one, easy to remember: If Denys Cowan is drawing something, buy it. If Bill Sienkiewicz is inking him, buy an extra copy. It doesn’t matter if it’s Deathstroke. Or a crossover that is ridiculous on its face, like Hong Kong Phooey/Black Lightning. Or even a
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All Elite Wrestling continues its mission to get eyes on the product before its weekly TV show starts airing on TNT. We already had their big PPV debut Double or Nothing and their follow-up Fyter Fest. Now we’re going with another cheap-to-free show with AEW Fight for the Fallen. This one’s a charity show with
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To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Microsoft has announced a Pokemon Go-like mobile game called Minecraft Earth.  “We have covered the entire planet in Minecraft,” says Minecraft Earth director Torfi Olafsson in an interview with The Verge. “Every lake is a place you can fish, every park is a place you can chop down trees. We’ve
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This iZombie review contains spoilers. iZombie Season 5, Episode 10 It’s pretty interesting to watch a film noir-inspired episode of iZombie when Rob Thomas’ other film noir-inspired show, Veronia Mars, is about to come back for a fourth season. Unlike Veronica Mars, or even the earlier, more noir-ish Season 1 episodes of iZombie, “Night and The Zombie
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Call it a match made in hell: legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter is co-writing a new Joker one-shot with his Big Trouble in Little China comic book collaborator Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2). The 40-page book is titled The Joker: Year of the Villain #1, a tie-in to the big, baddie-centric DC crossover event coming out
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The Deuce isn’t stopping at two. HBO has officially ordered The Deuce Season 3 and, in the process, also confirmed that the third season will be the show’s final. The Deuce is just the latest in a long line of collaborations between David Simon and HBO. Former Baltimore Sun reporter Simon and his writing partner George Pelecanos were the driving forces behind GOAT
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The Boys will unleash an unapologetically ultraviolent response to the entertainment industry’s seemingly interminable array of live-action superhero fare with a TV series created by Supernatural and Timeless‘s Eric Kripke, adapting the bleak comic book series from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Yet, with news arriving of an addition to the cast of the series,
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HOUSTON – (July 12, 2019) – The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels – and anything else that loses energy through heat – far more efficient. Rice University scientists are designing arrays of aligned single-wall carbon nanotubes to channel mid-infrared radiation (aka heat) and greatly raise the efficiency of
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President Trump has named two George Washington University professors winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE): Chunlei Liang, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Volker J. Sorger, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “It’s overwhelming and a true honor, and it
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For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a quantum phenomenon best? A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Harvard University in the United States has now successfully deployed artificial neural networks for image analysis of quantum systems. Is that a dog
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Zack Snyder, the director of big DC projects like Justice League and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, now wants to head to Asgard – but not Marvel’s version of Asgard. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zack Snyder is teaming with his Justic League producing partner Jay Oliva to bring an anime based on Norse mythology to Netflix.
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Earlier this year, prolific comic book writer Brian K. Vaughan struck a deal with Legendary Entertainment to adapt some of his comic IP. Now the first project from that deal has been announced. According to Deadline, Brian K. Vaughan, Legendary, and Plan B (the studio behind Moonlight) have struck a deal with Amazon Studios to adapt
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