Month: December 2019

IMAGE:  “We have learned that magnetic nanoparticles can receive magnetic fields and translate them into signals that neurons can understand. ” GABRIELA ROMERO URIBE, UTSA Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering… view more  Credit: Courtesy of UTSA Dec. 5, 2019 — For decades the renowned English physicist Stephen Hawking lived with a motor
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With one magic word, Shazam has become one of the greatest superheroes in history. Billy Batson was imbued with the power of the wizard Shazam when he spoke that one magic word, Shazam! A fierce lightning strike would transform Billy into the World’s Mightiest Mortal. He first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (1939) and was
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In what should not come as a surprise to anyone, Sony has indicated they are no longer interested in producing handheld gaming devices.  “PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great, but clearly it’s a business that we’re no longer in now,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of
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IMAGE: Associate Professor Farshad Moradi from the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, is heading the project. view more  Credit: Peer Klercke The cost of corrosion runs to 3-4 per cent of the gross world product (GWP) annually, and therefore there is increasing international focus on monitoring infrastructure projects. The Department of Engineering at Aarhus University is
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IMAGE: (a) Scanning electron micrograph of the measured Superconductor(Nb)/Normal metal (Ag)/ Superconductor(Nb) Josephson junction. (b) Color-coded sketch of the normalized energy-phase dependent density of states of a long diffusive SNS junction…. view more  Credit: University of Jyväskylä/Pauli Virtanen Understanding how microwave absorption changes the transport properties of diffusive Josephson junctions is at the forefront of interest
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IMAGE: Peptoid nanosheets are a single layer of crystals made from the spontaneous stacking of peptoid chains into parallel rows. Individual nanosheets floating in water were rapidly frozen and imaged by… view more  Credit: Berkeley Lab Protein-like molecules called “polypeptoids” (or “peptoids,” for short) have great promise as precision building blocks for creating a variety of
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IMAGE: A single-layer of tungsten disulfide, a two-dimensional material, was put on a silicon dioxide, a hydrophilic substrate and it showed tungsten disulfide interacting with water and oxygen molecules in the… view more  Credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside for long and
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IMAGE: CaZrSe3 in the distorted orthorhombic perovskite phase depicted from the (a) side view and (b) top view. view more  Credit: Ganesh Balasubramanian, Eric Osei-Agyemang and Challen Enninful Adu For solar cells to be widely used in the coming decades researchers must resolve two major challenges: increasing efficiency and lowering toxicity. Solar energy works through a
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Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne series may be coming to our TV screens. According to THR, the science fiction novels are in development at AMC Studios for a possible TV series from the speculative fiction writer who also brought us Annihilation. The Borne novels are set in the future in a city that has been destroyed by
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IMAGE: This is a zoomed-in SEM image of nanopillars of the metalens. view more  Credit: (Image courtesy of Joon-Suh Park/Harvard SEAS) Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras, sensors, and displays. But so far, most of the lenses have been about the size
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New York University Professor David Grier, who has pioneered technologies for organizing and probing matter with computational holography, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced today. “The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that
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IMAGE: The graphene nanoribbon (center) consists of a single layer of honeycomb carbon atoms. The ribbon is only a few carbon atoms wide and has different electrical properties depending on its… view more  Credit: Copyright: Jan-Philip Joost, AG Bonitz New materials are needed to further reduce the size of electronic components and thus make devices such
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IMAGE: Organic transistors based on single crystals of rubrene, a hydrocarbon, can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them when a crystal is slightly bent (strained). This useful behavior… view more  Credit: Vitaly Podzorov/Rutgers University-New Brunswick p>Slightly bending semiconductors made of organic materials can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them and
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Even before they had the movie rights to Cain Marko, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been an unstoppable juggernaut. The movies have been making all the money in the world, but Marvel is so rich in characters and concepts that they’ve begun to encompass the TV and streaming worlds, as well. We’re at a point
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IMAGE: Artistic representation of the strategy adopted in the work. Antibodies, by binding to antigen-conjugated DNA tiles, induce the assembly of tubular nanoscale structures. view more  Credit: Ella Marushchenko What if we could use antibodies as functional tools for nanotechnology applications? A group of researchers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata started from this simple
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HBO will not be foisting Larry David on any other network. Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 10 if officially happening. The announcement came in a surprisingly painless fashion and much quicker than Curb Your Enthusiasm is accustomed to (though it was nearly two years ago, December 2017, at this point). Larry David tends to like to make the
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Here is a brief list of things that happen JUST in this exclusive preview of Justice League #37 that are categorically, clinically bananapants. – The Legion of Doom headquarters faces off with the Hall of Justice. Not metaphorically or anything. They actually fly and stare each other down. Please note, this is the first damn panel of
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