Month: December 2019

Microsoft (kind of) clarified the meaning of the Xbox Series X name by explaining that Series X is indeed just the name of a single model of Xbox.  “The name we’re carrying forward to the next generation is simply Xbox,” said Microsoft via a statement made to Business Insider. “And at The Game Awards you
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The following contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 9. Every iteration of Watchmen needs a defining symbol. HBO’s opted for an egg. The best known symbol from the original Watchmen is a yellow smiley face splattered with blood. The image recurred throughout the series and became an iconic visual cue of the book’s depiction of the
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IMAGE: Ali Abolmaali, view more  Credit: The University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington and the city of Waxahachie are collaborating on robotic inspections of several miles of the city’s sewer pipelines. Ali Abolmaali, professor and chair of UTA’s Civil Engineering Department, will lead the pilot project, which will lead to estimates
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IMAGE: The TEM image shows the superstructure which is created by doping of Bi2Te3 with manganese: Between the originally 5-atom-layer thick units (QL) new 7-atom-layer units are formed by self-organization in… view more  Credit: G. Springholz/Uni Linz New effects in solid-state physics are often first discovered at temperatures near absolute zero (0 Kelvin or -273 °C).
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A lot can happen in a year, especially when it comes to science. As 2019 draws to a close, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, is highlighting the year’s biggest stories in chemistry, top research trends and important developments in a special issue. In addition, the magazine makes
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Associate Professor Menglin Chen has received a major grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop a completely new method of regenerating brain and heart cells. The method uses water-based nanofibers coated with organic photovoltaic nanomaterials to create light controlled neural stimulating scaffolds inside the body. With a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation of DKK 4.2
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This The Purge review contains spoilers. The Purge Season 2 Episode 10 Near the end of “7:01 AM,” Marcus dumps an unconscious Ben onto the sidewalk outside of the medical clinic with the comment, “Let the Purge take care of him.” The Purge is the solution to Marcus’s problem; he brought a maniac into a
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This Batman article contains spoilers.  Tom King did the impossible. In a comics industry founded on the bedrock principle that only the appearance of growth should ever be shown, he’s told a massive, three-year, 85-issue story that has Bruce Wayne actually develop as a character. With Alfred’s death earlier in the final story arc, “City
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PlayStation Now is Sony’s cloud gaming subscription service, which is designed for fans of the PlayStation family’s huge gaming catalog. Not to be confused with the PlayStation Plus membership club (which has its own separate library of playable titles), PlayStation Now allows users to stream and/or download a vast number of PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3,
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This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. His Dark Materials Episode 7 “We thought book one could not be adapted in fewer than eight episodes,” said His Dark Materials producer Jane Tranter at October’s launch event, “and I didn’t want to push my luck asking for more than eight.” Absolutely, quite right. No complaints here.   Except, if Tranter
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IMAGE: Qijun Zhang, a PhD student in the UTIA Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, has placed first in an international student poster competition hosted by the Society of Wood Science… view more  Credit: Photo by K. Keel-Blackmon, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Qijun Zhang, a graduate student studying at the University of Tennessee Center for Renewable
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IMAGE: Woman receiving a diagnostic medical scan for head and neck cancer. view more  Credit: Mark_Kostich Shutterstock Although less often the focus of cancer research, recent studies have hinted at the possible importance of a type of protein known as nuclear transport receptors. Now researchers at Kanazawa University and collaborating institutions in Japan and the US
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IMAGE: A sheathless acoustic fluorescence activated cell sorting (aFACS) system for isolating fragile biological cells with high cell purity and viability view more  Credit: SUTD Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) is a modern cell analysis technique for quantitative detection of physiological, biochemical, immunological, and molecular biological traits of cells – it can further separate a specific
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The Game Awards is the video game industry’s biggest celebration of the year, honoring the latest and greatest in gaming. But it’s also the place where the biggest announcements of upcoming games and surprise reveals happen. The 2019 ceremony didn’t disappoint, bringing us quite a few bombshells no one saw coming. On top of a
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This article contains Watchmen spoilers. Well, it took them long enough, but it looks like the mystery of Lube Man has finally been solved. Yes, the show that gave us an enormous high tech Dr. Manhattan dildo also introduced us to a mysterious costumed figure that was promptly dubbed “Lube Man” because of his penchant
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have developed a new gene-therapy technique by transforming human cells into mass producers of tiny nano-sized particles full of genetic material that has the potential to reverse disease processes. Though the research was intended as a proof of concept, the experimental therapy slowed tumor growth and prolonged survival in mice with
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Polymers are used to develop various materials, such as plastics, nylons, and rubbers. In their most basic form, they are made up of many of identical molecules joined together over and over, like a chain. If you engineer molecules to join together in specific ways, you can control the characteristics of the resulting polymer. Using
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Artificial Intelligence may be just the thing to accelerate spray-on solar cell technology, which could revolutionize how consumers use energy. A research team at the University of Central Florida used Machine Learning, aka Artificial Intelligence to optimize the materials used to make perovskite solar cells (PSC). The Organic-Inorganic halide perovskites material used in PSC converts
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IMAGE: Artificial water channels enable fast and selective water permeation through water-wire networks view more  Credit: Erik Zumalt, Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin A multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists has discovered a new method for water filtration that could have implications for a variety of technologies, such as desalination plants,
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From dyes to construction materials, and from cosmetic products to electronics and medicine, nanomaterials are found in many different applications. But what are these materials? “Nanomaterials are defined purely by their size,” explains Dr Kristin Schubert from the Department of Molecular Systems Biology at UFZ. “Materials between one and 100 nanometres in size are referred
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