Month: December 2019

Tsukuba, Japan – When you’re only one of trillions, it can be hard to get ahead. That’s the problem faced by aquatic bacterium Leptothrix cholodnii, which is often found in the slime-like microbial mats common to mineral-rich bodies of water. Therefore, to establish itself in these communities, L. cholodnii forms long, rigid filaments that become
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IMAGE: The Making of a Quantum Dot “Molecule “. view more  Credit: Meirav Oded and Somnath Koley. Are you ready for the future? Back in 1869, Russia’s Dmitri Mendeleev began to classify the elements according to their chemical properties, giving rise to the Periodical Table of Elements. “I saw in a dream a table where all
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This article contains nothing but spoilers for Watchmen, both the book and the HBO series. HBO’s Watchmen timeline is non-linear and occasionally confusing (or “infuriating” as Dr. Manhattan puts it) in its use of time. The book from which it draws inspiration is similarly non-linear and occasionally confusing in its use of time. To make matters
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Starting in January, a new creative team is moving into the Batcave. Detective Comics veteran James Tynion IV and artists Tony S. Daniel, Guillem March, and Jorge Jimenez are taking over Batman from Tom King and Mikel Janin, who are wrapping up their 85-issue run later this month. Batman #86 will be Tynion and Daniel’s
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PUBG creator, and the original PlayerUnknown, Brendan Greene has revealed the first trailer for his next project, Prologue.  The trailer for Prologue honestly doesn’t give us much to work with. It starts with a static look at a forest in the middle of a storm. We soon see the camera move in a manner similar to how players
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Steven Universe: The Movie seemed like it could have easily been the wrap up to the entire series but there’s more to come! We’ve learned that Steven Universe will continue with Steven Universe season 6, titled Steven Universe: Future, and we’ve got the new opening theme below. As you can hear it’s an all new song featuring
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This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 12 “Am I the only one staring at three blank pages?” For such an exposition heavy episode, “Three Pages” still finds plenty of time to move the core Van Helsing tale forward, and at the same time clearly demonstrate the show’s continued willingness to
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Naraka: Bladepoint looked like one of the more interesting titles show at the Game Awards 2019, and everything we’ve learned about the game since its reveal has only raised our interest in this project. While it’s not made entirely clear in the game’s trailer, Naraka is actually a melee multiplayer title. According to developer 24 Entertainment,
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As is typical with The Expanse, the ending moments of season 4 represent a narrative shift to prepare for a new story arc in season 5, following the same natural borders presented by successive novels in the James S. A. Corey series upon which the show is based. With the protomolecule no longer a factor,
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It looks like Elder Scrolls Online will soon be visiting the land of Skyrim. At least that’s the impression we got from a new trailer for the MMO that aired during last night’s Game Awards. The end of that preview showed a familiar figure overlooking what seemed to be Skryim while some memorable music played. We
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IMAGE: Light localized in space inside the topological crystal, entangled by interaction and topology. view more  Credit: ITMO University A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in the transfer speed of data online. Research into topological photonic metamaterials headed
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IMAGE: A new wrap developed by researchers at McMaster University repels everything that comes into contact with it, including viruses and bacteria. view more  Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, Dec. 13, 2019 – A team of researchers at McMaster University has developed a self-cleaning surface that can repel all forms of bacteria, preventing the
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IMAGE: General distribution of stresses in the “endoprosthesis-skeleton ” model of the biomechanical structure when a patient is standing on two legs. The voltage range is from 1 to 100 MPa. view more  Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University A team of scientists from the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Center of the National Technology Initiative (NTI)
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IMAGE: The construction of a synthetic DNA nanopore capable of selectively translocating protein-size macromolecules across lipid bilayers. view more  Credit: Rasmus Peter Thomsen, Aarhus University In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Based on a synthetically engineered transmembrane protein, nanopore sequencing allows long DNA strands to be channelled
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NetherRealm Studios’ Injustice: Gods Among Us was born out of the idea of the Joker dying a gruesome death. What better brand synergy than tossing him into the Mortal Kombat universe? We’ve known for a while that Joker would be part of the first Kombat Pack as the last of Mortal Kombat 11’s initial wave of
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This article is sponsored by 1939 Games. World War II has served as the historical setting for countless video games over the years. Most of these games have been first-person shooters that put you smack-dab in the middle of the battlefield. But 1939 Games’ free-to-play KARDS takes a more unique approach to WWII, infusing classic
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Safe nuclear waste storage, new ways of generating and storing hydrogen, and technologies for capturing and reusing greenhouse gases are all potential spinoffs of a new study by University of Guelph researchers. Published recently in Nature Scientific Reports, the study involved the first-ever use of antimatter to investigate processes connected to potential long-term storage of
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IMAGE: At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action, with NV centers in the… view more  Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab; Ella Marushchenko Since their invention more than 60 years ago, diamond anvil cells have made it possible for scientists
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IMAGE: An illustration shows how motorized nanomachines triggered by light drill into bacteria, making a path for antibiotics. Experiments showed the bacteria became susceptible again to the antibiotic meropenem, to which… view more  Credit: Don Thushara Galbadage/Biola University HOUSTON – (Dec. 12, 2019) – Molecular drills have gained the ability to target and destroy deadly bacteria
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