Ilan Eshkeri is something of a musical adventurer. He’s an award-winning composer who has scored a wide variety of films including Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, Shaun the Sheep Movie, has composed a modern ballet based on Echo & Narcissus, has conducted an orchestra at the Louvre, and has even worked with the European Space Agency
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Fans of Rick and Morty have gotten used to being neglected. Whenever a season wraps up, we assume we won’t be getting more sci-fi rigamarole adventures for at least a year. Well, color me surprised, because it’s been less than two months since the season four finale and Adult Swim has already blessed us with
IMAGE: Inspired by the work of Japanese snowflake researcher Ukichiro Nakaya, materials scientists from Rice University the University of Pennsylvania created a Nakaya-like diagram of 2D crystal shapes of molybdenum disulfide… view more Credit: MSNE/Rice University HOUSTON – (July 27, 2020) – Materials scientists at Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania are calling for a
SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have been awarded millions of pounds for a five-year research project that will accelerate a new industrial revolution by developing techniques for ultra-accurate measurement on a nanoscale. An ensemble of miniaturised sensors will enable automated production lines to detect and correct errors in situ, without parts having to be
The simplicity and elegance of origami, an ancient Japanese art form, has motivated researchers to explore its application in the world of materials. New research from an interdisciplinary team, including Northwestern Engineering’s Horacio Espinosa and Sridhar Krishnaswamy and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Glaucio Paulino, aims to advance the creation and understanding of such folded
IMAGE: Ling Li view more Credit: Virginia Tech Ling Li, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development CAREER award to support research to study the structural designs and formation mechanisms of biomineralized architected materials. The $520,000 five-year award will support Li’s research
Thanks to optical tweezers, a new study reveals unexpected properties of the neurons responsible for the transduction of light signals. The research has been published in PLOS Biology. “We thought we knew almost everything about photoreceptors, but we have proved that is not the case.” With these words, Vincent Torre, Professor of neurobiology of SISSA
Absurdly fun comedy show Taskmaster, in which comedians are set and awarded points for completing a series of brilliantly nonsensical challenges, is a tonic for heart-heaviness. It is joyful nonsense and precisely the cleanse required for those occasions when the real world gets a bit much. Watched the news? Dismayed by Twitter? Let Noel Fielding
Netflix has announced a new limited series based on The Witcher universe called The Witcher: Blood Origin. According to Netflix, Blood Origin is a “six-part, live-action limited series” that will serve as a prequel to Netflix’s The Witcher series. Set in “an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher,” this series will
A leaked Doritos promotion appears to offer even more evidence that Call of Duty 2020 will be called Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. The promotion was seemingly spotted by TheGamingRevolution and shared via various outlets. It showcases an upcoming Doritos promotion campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which allows players
IMAGE: Using a metamaterial, the group traps nanoparticles. view more Credit: OIST Nanoparticles are tiny. At just 1/1000th of a millimeter, they’re impossible to see with the naked eye. But, despite being small, they’re extremely important in many ways. If scientists want to take a close look at DNA, proteins, or viruses, then being able to
Therapy-loaded nanoparticles may be directed to the brain by functionalization with ligands targeting BBB-associated proteins. However, such targeting strategies have inherent brain-specificity limitations, as the target proteins are also significantly expressed in peripheral organs, thereby limiting the clinical application of such strategies. We have developed a counterintuitive targeting strategy which exploits the high impermeability of
This Wynonna Earp review contains spoilers. Wynonna Earp Season 4, Episode 1 Hold onto your flasks, Earpers. For the next six weeks, new episodes of Wynonna Earp will be gracing our hearts and eyeballs. It’s almost too good to believe that, after almost two years, a time in which funding snafus and then COVID-19 temporary
This NOS4A2 review contains spoilers. NOS4A2 Season 2 Episode 6 One of the smarter choices in “The Hourglass” is to lean on Maggie (Jahkara Smith), who has been underutilized this season. She was such a crucial part of the first season of NOS4A2, being Vic’s inroad to the world of the supernatural, and this season
This THE ALIENIST review contains spoilers. The Alienist Season 2 Episode 4 After two weeks, we’re already at the halfway point with The Alienist: Angel of Darkness. It’s still a mystery as to why TNT is blowing through original programing when every content provider is about to be facing a drought in the months ahead.
Once upon a time Kevin Smith had a dream to make a Krampus movie—an anthropological horror film based around the anti-Santa Claus monster of Germanic folklore. But then Michael Dougherty went and made Krampus in 2015, so Smith had to improvise. Luckily this is the guy who made Clerks for $28,000—being creative with resources is
During a most excellent panel discussion of Bill & Ted Face the Music on Saturday (July 25) at Comic-Con@Home, it came to light that actors Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving, who play the daughters of the title dudes, had never seen the first two movies in the series before. While Lundy-Paine did not delve too
The 2020 Eisner Awards were presented by Phil Lamarr as part of Comic-Con At Home, the digital remote replacement for this year’s pandemic-canceled San Diego Comic-Con. The big winners on the night were women creators, winning outright or a share of almost two thirds of the awards. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by
Antlers will mark filmmaker Scott Cooper’s first foray into the horror genre. That’s a benefit as far as producer Guillermo del Toro is concerned. Having gotten into producing films in order to “learn from [other] filmmakers,” del Toro wanted to see what Cooper’s idea of a monster movie might look like. And considering it ended
The long-awaited adaptations of Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi classic Foundation and Neil Gaiman’s legendary comic book The Sandman are aiming to resume production this fall after being shut down earlier this year by the coronavirus pandemic. That news comes from David S. Goyer, who’s an executive producer on both projects and was asked about their status
When Man of Steel came out in 2013, the Zack Snyder-directed reboot of Superman’s origins became immediately controversial with fans due to two sequences. In the first, a young Clark Kent (Henry Cavill) watches as his adoptive father Jonathan Kent (Kevin Costner) is killed by a tornado, with Jonathan covertly discouraging Clark from attempting to
The beloved, long-running Nickelodeon show PAW Patrol has not been shut down as part of a wave of recent cancellations of TV series featuring police officers. White House press mouthpiece and professional prevaricator Kayleigh McEnany — who never met a lie she didn’t want to escape her lips — claimed that PAW Patrol was canceled
Amazon Prime’s animated adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s comic Invincible was already shaping up to be a very Walking Dead-friendly place. Both Steven Yeun (Glenn on TWD) and Khary Payton (King Ezekiel) had signed up in prominent roles. But with this latest casting news, Invincible may as well be part of The Walking Dead universe. Kirkman
It’s hardly a surprise that the reveal of Avowed, Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming first-person RPG based on the Pillars of Eternity universe, quickly got everyone talking about The Elder Scrolls. Not only is The Elder Scrolls the definitive name in first-person RPGs for many console gamers, but Avowed comes just as we’re all patiently waiting for
There’s never a bad time for a trip to the Outer Banks. Thankfully Netflix agrees. The streamer announced today that it has renewed its teen-oriented drama Outer Banks for season 2. The announcement came along with a nifty new poster. “OBX” is, of course, a popular tourist nickname for Outer Banks, North Carolina. “2” is,
The Pentagon can be quite the tease, especially when it comes to UFOs. They’ve claimed the phenomenon doesn’t exist, that they looked into it and lost interest, and they disbanded the unit they had investigating it. Now The New York Times is reporting the top military office never stopped looking at the skies. They just
Fans of History’s Nordic drama Vikings are used to waiting patiently for the series to return for its next installment, but with Covid-19 raging globally, any news of a return for the final ten episodes is certainly welcome. And while creator, writer, and showrunner Michael Hirst didn’t reveal anything concrete about the conclusion of season
IMAGE: Indiana University School of Medicine is leading an NIH-funded national study into diabetic foot ulcers, with the ultimate goal of decreasing amputation rates. view more Credit: IU School of Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine is leading the first study of the national Diabetic Foot Consortium sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National
IMAGE: (A) Atom maps reconstructed using 3D-APT show the distribution of each element. Iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), and boron (B) are enriched (darker in colour) at the nanolayer, whereas nickel (Ni),… view more Credit: Photo source: DOI number: 10.1126/science.abb6830 Intermetallic alloys potentially have high strength in a high-temperature environment. But they generally suffer poor ductility at
Xbox Game Studios and 343 Industries finally lifted the curtain on Halo Infinite, the next chapter in the beloved first-person shooter series, during a digital games showcase in July. While the gameplay footage that was revealed certainly created some excitement for the Xbox Series X’s flagship title, it’s left some fans underwhelmed. The major point