Month: May 2020

This is a sharp contrast to Harley, who fell in love with a different mask of Joker’s, but recognizes that mask for what it is: pure nihilism. Punchline hasn’t seen that yet, and her fanaticism and its foundation on Joker’s quicksand personality will lead to some real conflict. “There are actually two big Harley/Punchline beats,”
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Ubisoft has revealed the date and name for their upcoming digital showcase which will seemingly replace their previously planned E3 2020 press conference. The event, officially known as Ubisoft Forward, will take place on July 12 at a currently unknown time. There’s also no word on where it will be streamed, but we suspect that
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Graphene is a diamagnetic material, this is, unable of becoming magnetic. However, a triangular piece of graphene is predicted to be magnetic. This apparent contradiction is a consequence of “magic” shapes in the structure of graphene flakes, which force electrons to “spin” easier in one direction. Triangulene is a triangular graphene flake, which possesses a
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IMAGE: A scanning electron micrograph shows a fishnet structure formed by nanocellulose that has bound 1.15 micrometers of silica particles together. view more  Credit: Bruno Mattos / Aalto University Cohesion, the ability to keep things together, from the scale of nanoparticles to building sites is inherent to these nanofibrils, which can act as mortar to a
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It’s good there’s some character development for the glorzo aliens because there isn’t much for our main characters. I’m being flippant when I say I’d like them to just get back into fun sci-fi adventures because, really, I’d like them to get back to fun sci-fi adventures with some meaningful character development. This is the
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Of course, even with the episode’s events getting dismissed as figments of the characters’ imaginations, some truths about who they are still come through, so that everyone gets an emotional journey. Well, sort of. Jesse and Korvo learn they might dislike a lot about each other, but they’re still family and would certainly rather have
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Discerning television viewers are right to be skeptical about the idea of adapting the sci-fi film Snowpiercer for the small screen, but once they see the depth of emotion and heart-pounding action of the ten episode series that begins on TNT at 9pm ET on May 17th, their cynicism will disappear. This is not just
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Scorn is one seriously disturbing game. Its emphasis on grotesque representations of the human form with a slightly alien twist is not only worthy of its influences — the H.R. Giger inspiration is clear — but showcases a level of body horror we rarely see in video games.  “The team has drawn visual inspiration from Swiss
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This SOLAR OPPOSITES review contains spoilers. Solar Opposites Episode 5 Something that’s always nice is when separate sitcom plots are still tied together thematically. “The Lavatic Reactor” is one such episode, centered around education, as Terry and Korvo enroll in a junior college and Jesse and Yumyulack attend what they believe to be summer school.
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While there’s never a doubt that Queen Ramonda takes the back seat to her children, she’s clearly got a backbone of steel. In the MCU, when Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) wins in ritualistic combat against T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), Angela Bassett’s Queen Ramonda, along with her companions, brave Jabari land to gain allies in taking back
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Star Wars Battlefront II explored a whole new story set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The single-player campaign introduced Iden Versio, the leader of the Empire’s elite special forces unit and later a Rebel and Resistance agent, as well as new Rebel heroes and Imperial villains. It also featured the return
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Why Are Judy’s Paintings So Important? Judy’s arc over the course of Dead to Me season 2 is very delicate and her character goes to many places, including some tough material with her mother and a very endearing romance. Right from the start of the season Judy is eager to locate some paintings of hers
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IMAGE: An international team has proposed a novel method that allows to widely extend this range of working frequencies of phonon polaritons in van der Waals materials. view more  Credit: (Source: University of Oviedo) An international team led by researchers from the University of Oviedo and the Centre for Research in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (CINN-CSIC), together
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IMAGE: This is Maksim Sergeev, ITMO University. view more  Credit: ITMO.News Oxides of different metals often serve as photocatalysts in various systems such as air purification, reactions of water decomposition and even in the production of self-cleaning surfaces for glass and mirrors. The physical-chemical properties of such materials can be improved by adding nanoparticles, which turn
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IMAGE: Electrets — electrons trapped in defects in two-dimensional molybdenum dioxide — give the material piezoelectric properties, according to Rice University researchers. The defects (blue) appear in the material during formation… view more  Credit: Ajayan Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (May 7, 2020) – Rice University researchers have found evidence of piezoelectricity in lab-grown, two-dimensional flakes
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IMAGE: Yinan Hu, a member of Professor Dmitry Budker’s research group at JGU, holding a battery cell, alongside a device which measures the state of charge view more  Credit: photo/©: Arne Wickenbrock Rechargeable batteries are at the heart of many new technologies involving, for example, the increased use of renewable energies. More specifically, they are employed
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IMAGE: Laser sintered samples by using PA12 powder and gold nanoparticles (GNRs), tungsten oxide (WO3) and carbon-black-based sensitizers (CB). view more  Credit: ICFO Selective powder sintering for 3D printing has recently become an increasingly affordable solution for manufacturing made-to-order elements of almost any shape or geometry. This technique involves heating a bed of powder (such as
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Project Blue Book has been sealed away in the proverbial Area 51 of cancelation by cable channel History after two seasons on the air. History’s Project Blue Book cancelation, reported via Deadline, occurs a little over a month after its March 24 airing of the show’s Season 2 finale, which ended things with the renewal-entreating
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IMAGE: This is Dr. Samuli Autti view more  Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University’s Dr Samuli Autti has been awarded a Young Scientist Prize 2020 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. The prestigious prize, awarded only once every three years, was made by the Low Temperature Commission of the IUPAP. He said he was
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