Month: August 2020

Get your first look at Ultron trying to tear apart Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and the rest of the world in the first official teaser trailer for Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” in theaters May 1, 2015! Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Keep up with Marvel on: TWITTER: https://twitter.com/marvel FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/Marvel TUMBLR: http://marvelentertainment.tumblr.com/ INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/marvel
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If you could move through any solid object, what would you do? “The Black Hole” by Phil & Olly Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About The Black Hole: An office drone (Napoleon Ryan) finds a mysterious piece of paper that allows him to pass through solid objects, so he takes
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Blizzard has released the patch notes for Hearthstone‘s upcoming 18.0.2 update, and they include some major changes to some of the most notable cards in Hearthstone‘s Constructed and Battlegrounds modes. Let’s start with constructed where the dominant Kael’thas Sunstrider will soon suffer the biggest nerf. Previously, Sunstrider made every third spell you played in a
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In a year ravaged by a pandemic, economic disaster, earthquakes, power outages, and murder hornets, humanity was desperately in need of a respite, something to reintroduce a little happiness into our lives. Enter Fall Guys, the new party game from developer Mediatonic and publisher Devolver Digital. “Fall Guys seems purposefully built to forever dominate Twitch streams, YouTube Let’s
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Four years ago, the overused and increasingly predictable zombie genre got a shot in the arm with Train to Busan, a South Korean film from director Yeon Sang-ho about a young father desperately attempting to get his little daughter to her mother via train as a zombie pandemic breaks out all around them. Even if
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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Season 1, Episode 1 We’re introduced to Atticus “Tic” Freeman (Jonathan Majors) in a dream sequence. What begins as a straightforward black and white scene of Tic in the trenches morphs into a colorful panorama of the fantastical, a smorgasbord of sci-fi hors d’oeuvres. Overhead, flying saucers
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“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it, anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.” These were the words spoken by Richard Harris at his most regal in Gladiator, adding some blockbuster poeticism to the democratic ideals of the Roman republic—a dream lost long before Gladiator begins. But
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IMAGE: Jeff Moran, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at George Mason University’s Volgenau School of Engineering, is researching the effect on heat transfer with the addition of self-propelled microparticles to… view more  Credit: George Mason University Your computer, car battery, or cell phone may one day be cooled down by swimming nanoparticles. Jeff Moran, an
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IMAGE: Mechanism of cancer cell death triggered by photo-thermal property of CNH and temperature sensitive TRPV2-mediated Ca2+ overdosing. view more  Credit: JAIST The development of chemotherapeutic agents with selective anti-cancer activities is increasingly unattractive due to the emergence of resistance, poor targeting of cancer tissues, and subsequent metastasis. Among tumor characteristic cell types, cancer stem cells
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IMAGE: Schematic of the experimental setup. view more  Credit: University of Southampton New research from the University of Southampton has successful discovered a way to bind two negatively charged electron-like particles which could create opportunities to form novel materials for use in new technological developments. Positive and negative electric charges attract each other, forming atoms, molecules,
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IMAGE: Arranged around it are a selection of 2-D materials that have been investigated. view more  Credit: Mathieu Luisier/ETH Zurich With the increasing miniaturization of electronic components, researchers are struggling with undesirable side effects: In the case of nanometer-scale transistors made of conventional materials such as silicon, quantum effects occur that impair their functionality. One of
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Metallic alloys at nanometer scale (nanoalloys) have great potentials in electrocatalysis. The interaction among different components in nanoalloys may modify the electronic configurations of active metals and generate synergistic effects, boosting their performance in terms of activity, durability and selectivity in electrocatalytic reactions. Alloying with cheap transition metals is an effective way to reduce the
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IMAGE: High-speed atomic force microscopy enables visualizing the fusogenic transition of HA in acidic environment, attachment to exosome membrane and subsequent exosome rupture. view more  Credit: Nano Letters Unlike living organisms, to avoid extinction, viruses need to hijack living host machineries to generate new viruses. The devastating respiratory virus, influenza A virus, utilize its hemagglutinin (HA)
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2020 — Global economic growth comes with increasing demand for energy, but stepping up energy production can be challenging. Recently, scientists have achieved record efficiency for solar-to-fuel conversion, and now they want to incorporate the machinery of photosynthesis to push it further. The researchers will present their results today at the American
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IMAGE: The rotating refrigerator at Aalto University view more  Credit: Aalto University/Mikko Raskinen For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the interaction of a new phase of matter known as “time crystals”. The discovery, published in Nature Materials, may lead to applications in quantum information processing because time crystals automatically remain intact – coherent –
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Time moves differently during lockdown. But for once that’s actually worked to the advantage of director Rob Savage who has managed to create an incredibly timely, sincerely scary and wonderfully shot horror movie in 12 weeks. That’s 12 weeks from conception to its appearance on streaming service Shudder. The result is Host, a horror set
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The following contains spoilers for The Umbrella Academy season 2. One of the most exciting parts of any new superhero story is finding out the characters’ respective powers and how they affect their lives and personalities.  Such was the case in The Umbrella Academy season 1. And strangely enough, such is the case in The
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This article is presented by: “It was possibly the most frustrating thing I’ve ever been through in my career,” Paul Feig says. “To make something I’m so proud of that was exactly what I wanted it to be that had this amazing cast, and the writing was so good. And then to be so happy
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Black is King is the visual album for the soundtrack The Lion King: The Gift, based on the 2019 live action Lion King, adapted from the 1994 animated film of the same name. It takes the story of the Lion King and reconceptualizes it around a Black boy, Simba in human form. Like the album,
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There are some franchises that stand the test of time. Superheroes like Batman, Spider-Man, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, get rebooted and recreated over and over again. Looney Tunes and Mickey Mouse’s crew are technically the same characters over time, but the art styles and personalities shift by the generation and evolve, for better
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