Our day-to-day lives can be seen as a series of complex motor sequences: morning routines, work or school tasks, actions we take around mealtimes, the rituals and habits woven through our evenings and weekends. They seem almost automatic, with little conscious thought behind them. In reality, however, they are the result of the myriad decisions
Month: March 2020
HOUSTON – (March 5, 2020) – Molecule-sized drills do the damage they are designed to do. That’s bad news for disease. Scientists at Rice University, Biola University and the Texas A&M Health Science Center have further validation that their molecular motors, light-activated rotors that spin up to 3 million times per second, can target diseased
Indeed, said slate is the result of a partnership between Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company, which will see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory eventually joined by titles such as Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Boy – Tales of Childhood, Going Solo, The Enormous Crocodile,
One of my favorite things about Grant Morrison’s run on Batman was his insistence that everything counts. Hairy-chested Neal Adams ‘70s Batman was obviously the cornerstone of the run, but it all mattered, from “Knightfall” and “No Man’s Land” to the Black Casebook files or the Batman of Zurr-En-Arrh. It added a lot of fun
The game is set during the Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274. In it, you play as a samurai named Jin Sakai who embarks upon a mission of revenge and liberation. As suspected, this is an open-world title that lets you freely explore a large area. In fact, the incredible footage we saw at E3
Perhaps it could be argued that Plum’s story along with the appearance of Christopher Plover and the reveal of the Dark King’s true identity as Rupert Chatwin acts as the common thread that ties the episode together. However, Seb’s story is more wrapped up in the dark side of mourning a lost love, making us
Check out the teaser for the project… The Sandman follows the story of Dream (also known as Morpheus). One of the seven Endless (you’ve also got Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction), Morpheus rules over the world of dreams (as you do). In The Sandman, an occultist captures Morpheus when he is actually trying
A leak first reported by IGN suggests that a new Star Wars game codenamed “Project Maverick” might be on the way from Electronic Arts. The source of the leak is a listing on the backend of the European PlayStation Network that teases the unannounced game with an image of a squadron of X-wings zooming towards
IMAGE: An image of two colorful parrots was created by mixing red, blue and green structural colors. view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07523 By blending paints in their palette, artists can create a broad spectrum of colors with subtly different hues. However, scientists who wish to create a similar range of structural
IMAGE: Researchers in Taiwan, China and at Rice University made wafer-sized, two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal boron nitride, as reported in Nature. The material may be removed from its copper substrate and… view more Credit: TSMC/Rice University HOUSTON – (March 4, 2020) – Step by step, scientists are figuring out new ways to extend Moore’s Law. The
IMAGE: An optical image of the graphene device on a silicon dioxide/silicon chip. Shining metal wires are connected to gold electrodes for electrical measurement. view more Credit: Guorui Chen/Berkeley Lab Ever since graphene’s discovery in 2004, scientists have looked for ways to put this talented, atomically thin 2D material to work. Thinner than a single strand
IMAGE: People enjoy using smartphones and touch screens to send messages, and high resolution screen displays to view images and watch videos but they might forget this technology comes from years… view more Credit: Luco Bravo Unsplash Modern society is working closer to the nanoscale than it realises. Breakthroughs and advances in developing and manipulating nanostructures
IMAGE: For the first time, a micromotor (shown above) was powered by “engines ” that respond to three different stimuli: catalytic (bubbles), light and magnetic. Scale bar, 10 μm. view more Credit: Adapted from Chemistry of Materials 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04873 Someday, microscopic robots could perform useful functions, such as diagnostic testing in lab-on-a-chip sensors, micropatterning surfaces
I’m so thrilled to announce: Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri will be back for more adventures… in Season Two. I could not be more proud of what the amazing cast and crew of The Witcher have accomplished, and can’t wait for the world to dig in and enjoy these stories with us. ❤️⚔️🐺 pic.twitter.com/evWoHvUl1e — Lauren
From a strictly craft perspective, Billionaire Island is incredibly exciting. It reunites Russell with his Flintstones collaborator, Steve Pugh. “Steve’s a big star now, so I have to be careful not to anger him,” says Russell. “I think we established a really good shorthand for understanding each other while working on The Flintstones, so thankfully,
Despite concerns about the first confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S., the Electronic Software Association (ESA) has reassured attendees that the organization is still moving ahead with E3 2020 in Los Angeles in June. “Everyone is watching the situation very closely,” the ESA told IGN in a statement. “We will continue to be vigilant
DNA in a cell can normally be compared to spaghetti on one’s plate: a large tangle of strands. To be able to divide DNA neatly between the two daughter cells during cell division, the cell organises this tangle into tightly packed chromosomes. A protein complex called condensin has been known to play a key role
IMAGE: a. Scanning electron microscopic image of a tilted sample. b. Rabi oscillations between non-neighbouring coupled mechanical resonators. c. Ramsey interferences between non-neighbouring coupled mechanical resonators. view more Credit: Prof. GUO Guo-Ping, SONG Xiang-Xiang, DENG Guang-Wei,TIAN Lin The CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information makes a significant progress in nanomechanical resonators. A group led by Prof.
IMAGE: Researchers at the University of Bristol have come up with a new type of nanoelectromechanical relay to enable reliable high-temperature, non-volatile memory. view more Credit: Dr Dinesh Pamunuwa Researchers at the University of Bristol have come up with a new type of nanoelectromechanical relay to enable reliable high-temperature, non-volatile memory. The work, which is reported
IMAGE: Scientists are using supercomputers to help understand the relatively rare event of salts in water (blue) passing through atomically-thin nanoporous membranes. A traversing chloride ion (peach) induces charge anisotropy at… view more Credit: Malmir et al. For a long time, nothing. Then all of a sudden, something. Wonderful things in nature can burst on the
air date: 11/26/19 read our review of “The Last Temptation of Barry Allen Part One” here. The Flash Season 6 Episode 8: The Last Temptation of Barry Allen Part Two “With The Flash (Grant Gustin) battling Bloodwork (guest star Sendhil Ramamurthy), Iris (Candice Patton), and Cisco (Carlos Valdes) fight to help Barry take control before he’s lost to
As for our beloved adventurers, the third season finds them in an uncharacteristically happy place. Trevor and Sypha have solidified their bond after defeating Dracula and it seems like they’ve gone on many more adventures by the time we’re reunited with them in a fun fight scene in the first episode. The duo brings a
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a new, sustainable permanent magnet. Most permanent magnets are made from alloys of rare earth metals – but the mining and processing of these materials produces toxic by-products, leading to ecological challenges around rare-earth mines and refineries. At the same time, demand for permanent magnets is
IMAGE: ixteen strands of DNA, stacked four-by-four, form the beam-shaped chassis of the DNA motor (in gray). Bits of DNA (in green) protrude from the chassis like little feet. The motor… view more Credit: Stephanie Jones, bio-illustrations.com Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte
IMAGE: Ivan Lyatun and Polina Medvedskaya view more Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University After the synchrotrons of the fourth generation were invented (these are particle accelerators, which are, in fact, giant research facilities), there was an urgent need for a fundamentally new optics that could withstand high temperatures and radiation loads created by a powerful
IMAGE: Digging deeper into the intricacies of these networks in an effort to develop more efficient Quantum Algorithms view more Credit: Tokyo University of Science Our world has no dearth of complex networks–from cellular networks in biology to intricate web networks in technology. These networks also form the basis of various applications in virtually all fields
Thankfully, Hank and Gomie’s entrance at this point in the series at least makes a lot of narrative sense. With Gus and Lalo’s crews looking to disrupt each other’s cash flows, it checks out that their shenanigans would cause them to register on the DEA’s radar. Lalo enlists Jimmy McGill to represent Krazy-8 and instruct
EA has canceled another Star Wars game, we learned this week, with a proposed spinoff of the Star Wars: Battlefront franchise apparently being binned last year. We’re finding out about it now thanks to a detailed report from Kotaku, who spoke to six different people in the know in order to bring this news to light. You may already know
Marvel is about to get even more larger than life. In the continuing quest to expand Ultraman into the west, franchise owner Tsuburaya Productions has teamed up with Marvel Comics to release all-new stories based on the classic Ultraman series. Marvel’s Ultraman comic will be titled The Rise of Ultraman and the first issue will
IMAGE: A schematic representation of the presented nanocomposite: Mn12-stearate single-molecule magnets separated onto the surface of spherical silica (Source: IFJ PAN) view more Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Following the latest research in the field of obtaining single-molecule magnets (SMMs), scientists have taken another step on the way toward obtaining super-dense magnetic memories and molecular neural networks,