Brazilian and European researchers have demonstrated exactly how a nanotechnology-based compound delivers an oral vaccine against hepatitis B to the immune system. When particles containing silica and an antigen combine, even though they are different sizes, they reach the intestine without being destroyed by the acidity of the digestive system. A compound of nanostructured SBA-15
Month: July 2019
As a cucumber plant grows, it sprouts tightly coiled tendrils that seek out supports in order to pull the plant upward. This ensures the plant receives as much sunlight exposure as possible. Now, researchers at MIT have found a way to imitate this coiling-and-pulling mechanism to produce contracting fibers that could be used as artificial
IMAGE: This illustration shows a twisted carbon nanotube yarn (CNT) (left) and a sheath-run artificial muscle (SRAM) made by coating a twisted CNT yarn with a polymer sheath. A scanning electron… view more Credit: The University of Texas at Dallas Over the last 15 years, researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international
PITTSBURGH (July 11, 2019) — Glass for technologies like displays, tablets, laptops, smartphones, and solar cells need to pass light through, but could benefit from a surface that repels water, dirt, oil, and other liquids. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering have created a nanostructure glass that takes inspiration from the
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their compact atomic gyroscope to enable multitasking measurement capabilities and measure its performance, important steps toward practical applications. Described in a new paper, the quantum gyroscope design and evaluation processes were led by three women — a highly unusual situation in physics and
This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Like all the best TV opening titles, Harlots’ comical, brazen credits sequence announces its personality in miniature. A collage-style animation set to modern music, it shows cut-out characters from William Hogarth’s 18th-century painting series A Harlot’s Progress clustered around a giant, luridly colored female nude. They tuck into her crevices, canoodle
This Robotech article contains minor spoilers up to issue 22 of the Robotech Titan Comics’ series. The Robotech comics are finally giving some major love to the franchise’s underdog, The Masters Saga. While the original Robotech anime was made up three different anime programs, the first and third “sagas” of the show have always received way more attention
Microsoft has announced its intention to close down Microsoft Internet Games, a service that launched in 2000 and allowed gamers to play iconic games like backgammon and checkers against online opponents. The service currently spans Windows XP, Windows ME, and Windows 7. As The Windows Gaming Team states on the official Microsoft website, “it is
Lovecraft Country is an intriguing TV project from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, which will team with J.J. Abrams’s Bad Robot and Misha Green, the creator of Underground, to adapt Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name for HBO. The project, which was just ordered to series, is also produced being by Warner Bros TV. The
The deal struck between Netflix and Shonda Rhimes is already beginning to bear fruit. Following the announcement that Rhimes’ first project will be Anna Delvey, Netflix has revealed Shonda Rhimes project number two. Rhimes will produce Bridgerton, an eight episode series based on the popular series of novels from Julia Quinn. Bridgerton is set between
Augmented reality isn’t just a concept or gimmick anymore. Pokemon Go took the technology mainstream in the summer of 2016, and now that game’s developer is back this year with Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But those are just two games out of many in a still growing category. To that end, Den of Geek has
IMAGE: From left to right, A vial of graphite (Gr), like what you would find in an ordinary pencil; a vial of graphene oxide (GO), produced by exfoliating Gr–shedding the layers… view more Credit: Delft University of Technology photo / Benjamin Lehner In order to create new and more efficient computers, medical devices, and other advanced
IMAGE: This is an image of a disordered polythiophene film. view more Credit: Marília Junqueira Caldas Flexible electronics is one of the most important trends in technology today. The market is growing so fast that it is expected to double in value in the next decade. Extremely light and even bendable optoelectronic equipment that supplies, detects
IMAGE: A UMass Amherst team of chemists and electrical engineers outline a new way to advance a more efficient, cheaper, polymer-based harvest of heat energy to produce electricity in a recent… view more Credit: UMass Amherst/Meenakshi Upadhyaya By one official estimate, American manufacturing, transportation, residential and commercial consumers use only about 40 percent of the energy
RICHLAND, Wash. July 10, 2019 – The goal of the research, published July 11 in the journal Nature, was to engineer artificial proteins to self-assemble on a crystal surface by creating an exact match between the pattern of amino acids in the protein and the atoms of the crystal. The ability to program these interactions
IMAGE: A new type of nanomaterial tape, shown here mounted in a conventional tape dispenser, sticks strongly to surfaces over a wide range of temperatures. view more Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01629 In very hot or cold environments, conventional tape can lose its stickiness and leave behind an annoying residue. But while most
IMAGE: University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Mathieu Francoeur has discovered a way to produce more electricity from heat than thought possible by creating a silicon chip, also known as… view more Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering It’s estimated that as much as two-thirds of energy consumed in the U.S. each year
This The 100 review contains spoilers. The 100 Season 6 Episode 9 It seems strange to say that everything’s coming together, considering the overall high quality of this season. Nonetheless, this episode had the uniquely satisfying feeling of disparate threads knitting together. That is, until the emotional gut-punch of Marcus Kane’s death. While Greyston Holt’s time on
The return of DC’s best super-team is going to feature even more of the best heroes when Legion of Super-Heroes: Millenium #1 hits in October. Also Superman and Lois’s son from the present is being shot into the future to join the Legion after being aged to his teen years via time dilation. “Jon Kent
The Turok game franchise, which began as a violent and intense shooter for the N64, is returning in 2019 as an intensely cute isometric action title. Dubbed Turok: Escape From Lost Valley, this upcoming project is about as far from the original Turok games as you can without turning the series into a mobile puzzle game. This
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have discovered a new method that could be used to build quantum sensors with ultra-high precision. When individual atoms emit light, they do so in discrete packets called photons. When this light is measured, this discrete or ‘granular’ nature leads to especially low fluctuations in
Wisely deciding that “Unnamed WarnerMedia Streaming Service” was probably not that punchy of a branding move, WarnerMedia has now officially named its upcoming streaming media service. Warner announced that its new streaming service will be called HBO Max. Here is a helpful video teaser they launched alongside the announcement Video of HBO Max – WarnerMedia’s
The epistolary novel—that is, a story told through letters—dates back all the way to the 1400s in the earliest versions of the form, counting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as famous examples. But what about the first time travel narrative told through correspondence? Could it have begun with
The apparent effort to get Keanu Reeves in everything continues with this new Metal Gear Solid 5 mod which replaces Big Boss with two Keanu Reeves characters. This mod, as spotted by PC Gamer, is a work-in-progress alteration of the PC version of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain which lets you play as
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Move aside, electrons; it’s time to make way for the trion. A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed, characterized, and controlled dark trions in a semiconductor — ultraclean single-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) — a feat that could increase the capacity and alter the form of
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…July 9, 2019 – Dogs can be trained to respond to haptic vibration commands while wearing a modified canine vest developed by an interdisciplinary research team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The paper, “Vibrotactile Vest for Remote Human-Dog Communication,” will be presented at the World Haptics Conference on July 12 in Tokyo,
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have developed the first microchip valve powered by living cells. Earthworm muscle tissue allowed for a high contractile force that could be sustained for minutes, and unlike electrically controlled valves, did not require any external power source such as batteries. For several decades,
IMAGE: Schematic of a nanoscale structure called a ‘photonic crystal waveguide’ that contains quantum dots that can interact with one another when they are tuned to the same wavelength. view more Credit: Chul Soo Kim, US Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON — Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) developed a new technique that could enable
IMAGE: This graphic shows how a common MXene oxidizes, or degrades, under normal conditions, but is protected when exposed to a solution containing sodium L-ascorbate, a compound in the same family… view more Credit: Texas A&M University Engineering In work that could open a floodgate of future applications for a new class of nanomaterials known as
Osaka, Japan — A “vacuum” is generally thought to be nothing but empty space. But in fact, a vacuum is filled with “virtual particle-antiparticle pairs” of electrons and positrons that are continuously created and annihilated in unimaginably short time-scales. The quest for a better understanding of vacuum physics will lead to the elucidation of fundamental
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