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
Month: December 2019
This article comes from Den of Geek UK. Warning: contains Crisis on Infinite Earths comic book spoilers. The Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover is all set to be an epic TV event. It will span episodes of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and Batwoman. This TV event is an adaption of a 12-issue DC
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
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
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
Legends of Tomorrow, arguably the best superhero show on The CW (yep, I said it), has been renewed for another season. Yes, friends, Legends of Tomorrow Season 5 will be in your eyeballs during the early 2020 TV season. The news was announced at the Winter Television Critics Association Tour, along with the renewal of nine
The Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have crossed over before but this time it’s going to be even bigger. The original team-up between the two titans of kids TV rocked the world in the 90’s but it was with the Power Rangers in Space team and the turtles of the Next Mutation live-action series. Still
Developer Red Barrels is working on a new Outlast game called The Outlast Trials. “Whilst not a direct sequel to the other critically acclaimed Outlast titles in the series, The Outlast Trials will be set in the same thrilling universe: more precisely, right in the middle of the Cold War era,” Red Barrels says of
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
IMAGE: Jose Cortez of NASA Ames (left) and Joel Contreras of UPAEP (right), conduct final integration of AzTechSat-1 into the Nanoracks CubeSat Deployer (NRCSD) in preparation for launch to the International… view more Credit: NASA The first satellite built by students in Mexico for launch from the International Space Station is smaller than a shoebox but
Conditioning is a method made famous by Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. Pavlov trained a dog by ringing a bell every time the dog was fed. The dog learned to associate the bell with food, and then drooled when it heard the bell ring, even if it didn’t see anything to eat. In an earlier
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
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
Lucifer Season 5 is definitely happening! Sadly, though, the fifth season of Lucifer will be the last we see of the show. BUT it’s so much more than we ever thought possible, so give yourselves a pat on the back if you joined in with the #SaveLucifer campaign – you have earned it! Here’s everything
This article consists of nothing but Shazam! spoilers. We have a spoiler free review of the film here. Shazam! marks the first time the character has come to the big screen as a big budget movie (1941’s The Adventures of Captain Marvel was a serial, not a feature film). The movie is based heavily on one
Revealed by Microsoft during its E3 2018 media briefing, Halo 6 is actually called Halo Infinite. The game was announced with a cryptic two-minute trailer that doesn’t really tell us what the game is. In fact, all we really know based on the first trailer is that the story could feature a Halo ring. Master Chief
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
Elseworlds was the best, and most explicitly comic book-y Arrowverse crossover yet. It was more than just a way to get all the heroes together, it was an exploration of what makes each of them so special. And after all the reality altering, multiverse hopping superhero action, they still managed to end it with one big
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
If you’re one of the many who just can’t wait for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, then you might want to keep an eye on a newly announced Vampire: The Masquerade spin-off title that offers a slightly refined take on the franchise’s narrative experience. “Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York is a unique, atmospheric,
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
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
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
The properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides are attracting a great deal of interest, and one of the reasons is their catalytic activity. In particular, better catalysts are needed to exploit the potential of water electrolysis – splitting water into its component elements – to provide sustainable energy storage. “MoS2 is one of the most
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
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
This gift guide is sponsored by Walmart. Den of Geek may receive a small commission if a product is purchased. Leaving the comfort of your own home on Cyber Monday? Who needs that? You should be exerting all your effort for the day by reheating leftover turkey, and gentling placing the dry, but still flavorful
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
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
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