Month: December 2019

IMAGE: Assistant Professor Eun Ji Chung, USC’s Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early-Career Chair view more  Credit: USC Viterbi School of Engineering Heart disease and stroke are the world’s two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of
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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the possibility of detecting Abrikosov vortices penetrating through a superconductor-ferromagnet interface. The device considered in their study, published in Scientific Reports, is a ferromagnetic nanowire with superconductive
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IMAGE: Around billions of nanodisks deposited onto area of 1 cm2. Each one of them reacts to the incident light and creates plasmons. view more  Credit: Illustration: Conceptualized Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting polymer. The antennas can be switched
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IMAGE: Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons. Carbon Hub’s goal is a zero-emissions future in which hydrocarbons are… view more  Credit: Photo by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON — (Dec. 9, 2019) — Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a major research initiative to
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A research team in the Department of Electrical and EIIRIS at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a donut-shaped kirigami device for EMG recordings. The proposed device reduces device displacement on a large deformable muscle surface. Accurate and robust EMG recordings offer EMG signal-based human-machine interfaces that allow prosthesis control for amputees. The results of
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IMAGE: The use of gold, silver and gold-silver alloy nanoparticles allowed high-speed/high-precision multicolor imaging for the first time. view more  Credit: Ryota Iino, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan. For the first time, researchers can track biological molecules with unprecedented speed and precision thanks to the use of multi-metallic nanoparticles. The researchers
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This article contains Supergirl and Crisis on Infinite Earths spoilers. Well, it’s finally here. Crisis on Infinite Earths kicked off with a tremendous, ridiculously ambitious hour of television. “Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One” is the Supergirl chapter of this year’s Arrowverse crossover, so naturally it put a lot of focus on what was happening
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This Steven Universe Future review contains spoilers. Steven Universe Future Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 Review Steven Universe always finds a way to give you what you never knew you needed. At the end of Steven Universe: The Movie it felt like we had come to a fairly satisfactory ending. Steven realized that all his problems wouldn’t be
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The Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover is about to get certified Spider-fied for its upcoming second issue! The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover by BOOM! Studios (under license by Hasbro, Inc. and in partnership with IDW and Nickelodeon) already has no shortage of variant covers and we’ve got the exclusive reveal of
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This The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel review contains no spoilers. Midge Maisel’s radical pivot has effected everyone in her life. Mostly we hear them grousing – blaming her, lamenting her unwillingness to fall back in line. But, more than the previous two, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3 shows how Midge’s gambit has opened up a world of
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IMAGE: A sample of the novel homogeneous polymer gel. view more  Credit: Image: © 2019 Li et al. Gel-like materials have a wide range of applications, especially in chemistry and medicine. However, their usefulness is sometimes limited by their inherent random and disordered nature. Researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Solid State Physics have
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IMAGE: A photoresponsive chiral catalyst based on an oligotriazole-functionalized unidirectional molecular motor has been developed for stereodivergent anion binding catalysis. The motor function controls the helical chirality of supramolecular assemblies with… view more  Credit: R. Dorel / University of Groningen Many organic molecules are chiral, which means that they are non-superimposable on their mirror image. Those
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Wilmington, DE, Dec. 6, 2019 -Amidst rising hopes for using CRISPR gene editing tools to repair deadly mutations linked to conditions like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, a new study in the Nature journal Communications Biology describes a new innovation that could accelerate this work by rapidly revealing unintended and potentially harmful changes introduced
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The Netflix documentary series The Confession Killer is filled with more twists than a feature film. Convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas actually changed law enforcement procedure. The Texas Rangers and the state’s police both wanted a piece of him. District Attorney Vic Feazell wanted to ride the case to a political career. Dallas homicide detective
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Stephen King’s novel The Outsider is becoming a drama series at HBO, which has given the adaptation a 10-episode order.  The story of The Outsider puts a mind-blowingly monstrous twist on traditional murder fiction. Here, police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) fields an investigation in the fictional Oklahoma town of Flint City that upends the local populace when a
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The internet has revealed a brand new look at a canceled Spider-Man 4 game, which would have tied in with Sam Raimi’s movie sequel of the same name (which also got cancelled, of course). A decent chunk of footage from the binned spinoff game has arrived online thanks to a YouTube channel called Hard4Games. This
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IMAGE: High-resolution 3D pHe mapping of living melanoma cells with feedback-controlled double-barrel SICM-pH nanoprobe. The 3D SICM topographical images (left column) and 3D pHe distributions (right column) of low-buffered living melanoma… view more  Credit: Kanazawa University “It is becoming clear that an acid extracellular pH plays an essential role in cancer cell progression, invasiveness and resistance
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Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at The University of Tokyo introduced a new physical model that predicts the dynamics of glassy materials based solely on their local degree of atomic structural order. Using computer simulations, they showed how this theory greatly improves our understanding of how glassy liquids become more viscous on cooling. This work has
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While much of the comedy world circumnavigates around the perilous waters of microagressions, there is at least one laughter delivery system which sails straight into it. Coming from an irreverent tradition which included an album called That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick, National Lampoon provides gags for an audience who can take a joke. They promise
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A new report by Kotaku suggests that Microsoft is still working on a disc-less version of Xbox Scarlett.  As the report notes, there seems to be a bit of confusion regarding this development. The earliest rumors regarding Microsoft’s next-gen plans suggested that Microsoft was working on a flagship premium next-gen console as well as a
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2019 — Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) Spring 2020 National Meeting & Exposition, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year, at https://bit.ly/33Hd9TD. The meeting will be held March 22-26, 2020, in Philadelphia. Each ACS national meeting and exposition attracts 11,000-16,000 chemists, chemical
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