Month: November 2019

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HOUSTON – (Nov. 13, 2019) – A lightweight material full of holes is nearly as hard as diamond. The mere dents left by speeding bullets prove it. Researchers at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering and their colleagues are testing polymers based on tubulanes, theoretical structures of crosslinked carbon nanotubes predicted to have extraordinary strength.
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IMAGE: Examples from the three-dimensional printed nanoworld show the complexity (a), the achievable structure sizes (b) as well as the path from meshed towards closed 3D surfaces (c). All images are… view more  Credit: © Harald Plank, Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis at TU Graz In the nanometer range, complex, free-standing 3D architectures are very
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IMAGE: A new stretchable semiconductor, illustrated here, consists of acid-degradable semiconductor fibers (green) embedded within a rubbery, biodegradable polymer. view more  Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00850 To seamlessly integrate electronics with the natural world, materials are needed that are both stretchable and degradable — for example, flexible medical devices that conform to
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This The Purge review contains spoilers. The Purge Season 2 Episode 5 The concept of Purge tourism has always been an interesting idea, and one that hasn’t nearly been touched on enough in the Purge media universe. There was talk of Purge tourism, but there are nuts-and-bolts concerns that are addressed in this week’s cold
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Today (November 12) Disney makes media and entertainment history by launching Disney+, the company’s long-awaited and highly-anticipated streaming service. The subscription video-on-demand will offer hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of film and TV content from the vast, combined libraries of Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel, 20th Century Fox, complemented by the Disney-owned services of Hulu
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This His Dark Materials article contains spoilers through Episode 2. “I feel like Mrs Coulter is a bit of a control freak,” says Ruth Wilson on stage at the London premiere of His Dark Materials. “She needs to be in control, and that’s in her look as much as everything else.” Mrs. Coulter’s look in the
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IMAGE: Physicist Dr. Gregor Hlawacek coordinates the experiments at the helium-ion microsope of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). view more  Credit: HZDR / A. Wirsig In collaboration with colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) and the University of Glasgow, physicists from the German research center Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are working
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IMAGE: The scheme of the experiment – circular polarization of light (marked in red and blue) transmitted through a cavity filled with liquid crystal depending on the direction of propagation. (Source:… view more  Credit: Source: M. Krol, UW Physics An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system – a
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IMAGE: This is the crystal structure of Pyrite OsSe2/OsTe2. view more  Credit: FLEET A Monash University study revealing new spin textures in pyrite could unlock these materials’ potential in future spintronics devices. The study of pyrite-type materials provides new insights and opportunities for selective spin control in topological spintronics devices. Seeking new spin in topological materials
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This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. His Dark Materials Episode 2 Cruella de Vil, the White Witch, the Wicked Queen, Nurse Ratched, meet your new sister in villainy: Mrs Marisa Coulter. Chic, gleaming and morally reprehensible, she could out-evil the lot of you six ways from Sunday and ladies, She. Has. Arrived.  Establishing Mrs Coulter
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This article contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 3 and the book. Watchmen episode 3, “She was Killed by Space Junk,” introduces two major characters from the original book in the form of Jean Smart’s FBI Agent Laurie Blake (formerly known as Laurie Juspeczyk, the Silk Spectre) and Jeremy Irons’ Adrian Veidt (formerly known as the
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Titans Season 3 is a go! DC Universe and Warner Bros. Television have renewed Titans for a third season, before Season 2 has even finished airing on the subscription streaming service. The original live-action superhero show premiered in 2018, as one of the first original offerings from DC Universe. It follows Dick Grayson, Rachel Roth aka
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The most impressive thing about what Joshua Williamson and his creative collaborators have pulled off in The Flash is making one continuous four year run feel like one long story. We’re about to be 82 issues plus several annuals in, and the last few issues have been notable in how they’re pulling together threads from far
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In an interview with TGCom, Hideo Kojima offered an…interesting theory regarding why some American critics may have been harsher on Death Stranding.  “I must say that the game received rave reviews, especially in Europe and Japan,” Kojima says. “Here in the United States, however, we have had stronger criticisms. Perhaps it is a difficult game
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IMAGE: Some of the researchers behind the breakthrough: Peter Andersson Ersman, RISE, Simone Fabiano, LiU, Jan Strandberg and Roman Lassnig, RISE. view more  Credit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping University and RISE, Campus Norrköping, have shown for the first time that it is possible to print complete integrated circuits with more than 100 organic electrochemical transistors.
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IMAGE: A schematic image of magnetic tunnel junction constructed of ferroelectric material sandwiched by magnetic metal layers. Interface of each electric polarization direction are shown enlarged in right-hand side. The diagram… view more  Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan–The ability to control the magnetic properties of a material using electricity is important for the development of computer
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The EU-funded research project SPRING (SPin Research IN Graphene) has celebrated its kickoff meeting on Nov. 7-8, 2019 in Donostia/San Sebastián (Spain). The meeting marks the starting point of a 4-year research project that is coordinated by CIC nanoGUNE and integrates IBM Research, Donostia International Physics Center, and University of Santiago de Compostela, Technical University
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IMAGE: This unique biosensing platform consists of an array of ultrathin graphene layers and gold nanostructures. The platform, combined with high-tech imaging (Raman spectroscopy), detects genetic material (RNA) and characterizes different… view more  Credit: Letao Yang, KiBum Lee, Jin-Ho Lee and Sy-Tsong (Dean) Chueng A Rutgers-led team has created better biosensor technology that may help lead
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This article contains Watchmen episode 4 spoilers. HBO’s Watchmen did most of its comic book referencing, additional worldbuilding, and character introductions in its first three episodes. So you would think that by the time we got to Watchmen episode 4, they’d be done mining the book for little flourishes of backstory to reference or use
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God of War director Cory Barlog has seemingly been using his Twitter account to tease some kind of sci-fi project.  This is all a bit strange, but a quick look at Barlog’s Twitter account reveals that he has changed his photo to a picture of the Voyager 1 space satellite, has sent out a strange tweet
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Everyone loves at least one Christmas movies. Even the Grinches and Scrooges among us can’t deny that there is at least one flick out there that can inspire the spirit of the season within them. further reading: Christmas Movies: A Complete Holiday Streaming Guide In order to find it, however, you’re going to have to
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This interview with Annalee Newitz was part of my research for “Are You Afraid of the Darkness: A Guide to Hopepunk,” a feature written for Den of Geek’s New York Comic Con print magazine that delved into the hopepunk term. I recommend beginning with that article before diving into this full interview transcript. To hear more of Newitz’s
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This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 4 Episode 4 “Haste makes waste.” The biggest piece of advice that Izuku Midoriya is given within “Fighting Fate” is that cooler heads prevail and that there’s nothing to gain from rushing into battle. Right from the start of My Hero Academia, Midoriya has been
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