Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and ‘tornadoes’ thousands of times thinner than a human hair. The team, from the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow in the UK and ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, used their technique to observe how the
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IMAGE: By combining laser and microwave excitation the researchers were able to change the spin states, for example “up ” to “down “, of atom-like impurities hosted in the material and show the… view more Credit: Dr M. Kianinia A team of international scientists investigating how to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D materials
A new simple blood test for brain tumours that could be used by GPs in primary care is being developed thanks to funding of nearly £500,000 by Cancer Research UK. Around 60,000 patients in the UK are living with a brain tumour but only 20 per cent of patients are still alive five years after
IMAGE: Optical micrograph of the inside of a luminescent substrate showing the red fluorescent emission from the quantum dot layer on top of the micro-patterned bottom reflector. view more Credit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google search for dark-field images, and you’ll discover a beautifully detailed world of microscopic organisms set in bright contrast to their
The Better Call Saul fiesta continues! Better Call Saul season 5 premiered its stellar first episode, “Magic Man,” last night. The experience was so fun that AMC decided to just go ahead and air another one tonight. In keeping with it usual release tradition, Better Call Saul season 5 will now settle into its usual Monday
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Team Ninja’s superhero brawler game that launched exclusively on Nintendo Switch last year, is getting its third major DLC package – and this one promises to be fantastic. It will center on the Fantastic Four going into battle with Doctor Doom. Set to launch on March 26, the new DLC
This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Episode 13 Did a mandate go out that only great things could happen in this episode? Because from Luke’s little light-up tie to the Bat in the bellfry callback, it felt like every inch of this episode Batwoman was dialed up to eleven. There were several smart surprises, and I don’t mean
Mortal Kombat 11’s first Kombat Pack of DLC characters is almost at an end. So far we’ve seen the familiar with Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, and Sindel. We’ve had special guest stars in the Terminator and the Joker. That leaves the sixth entry, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. McFarlane’s been wanting his creation to show up in a
Although vampires have been using powers of seduction to wile their way into their victims’ hearts for more than a century in literature, it’s only been a few decades since the creatures of the night became the beautiful, brooding immortals in television and film that fought against their bloodthirsty urges to seek human companionship. Despite
The latest Nintendo Direct focused on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and revealed quite a few new details about the upcoming title. There’s a lot to cover here, but the gist of what we larned is that New Horizons is going to be a bit different from some of the series’ most notable titles of the
Today in New York at Toy Fair, Hasbro announced the twenty-eighth season of Power Rangers. Right now we don’t know the full title of the season but we do know that it’ll be taking footage from Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. There had been a lot of speculation about which Sentai season would be adapted for the series,
Katy Rose Pool’s There Will Come a Darkness was one of the most critically-acclaimed young adult fantasies of 2019. The epic story of a prince, a killer, a leader, a gambler, and a dying girl in a world prophesied to die drew comparisons to Throne of Glass, Children of Blood and Bone, and An Ember
Fortnite is once again crossing paths with Marvel, with the famously mouthy comic-book mercenary Deadpool appearing in the iconic battle royale game as an unlockable skin in the latest Battle Pass. There have been a few crossovers between Marvel and Fortnite in the past, including last year’s Stan Lee-homaging Avengers: Endgame event, but this one
With The Clone Wars animated series back on TV after six years, Star Wars fans have a new chance to fill in the blanks left by never-before-seen Prequel era stories like the Siege of Mandalore. In season seven, Star Wars returns to the time just before the fall of the Jedi and the Old Republic turned
Garbage Pail Kids may be best known as a purposefully-puke-inducing trading card parody of a specific moment of mid-1980s ennui in the aftermath of the Cabbage Patch Kids toy phenomenon (notably the 1983 holiday retail riots it caused), but the franchise is still kicking in 2020. Moreover, this ‘80s icon is about to handled by
Sonic, X-Men, Transformers, and The Little Mermaid will headline a new series of retro Tiger handheld LCD gaming devices that are set to release later this year. Now, we’re temporarily going to assume that you, valued reader, may not have any idea what we’re talking about when we talk about LCD gaming devices. If that’s the
You’ve never seen a TV series quite like Hunters. Created by David Weil, who serves as co-showrunner with Nikki Toscano, and produced by Amazon and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, the 10-episode series is set in 1977 and follows a ragtag, diverse group of clandestine spies, researchers and assassins who are out to find and stop
Marvel never really needs an excuse to release another Spider-Man title. He’s their bread and butter. A lot of the time they can just do a regular Spider-Man series and just tack on a new adjective. Sometimes there will be a gimmick to it, like having him team up with other heroes, emphasis on his
Netflix has confirmed the names of returning and new members of The Witcher‘s cast ahead of the show’s anticipated 2021 season 2 release date. Every major member of the show’s original cast will return for season 2 (including Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, and Anya Chalotra), so it’s the new cast members that have really caught everyone’s attention.
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded new grants totaling $1.8 million to two University of Texas at Dallas scientists for their research related to lung and kidney cancers. The Individual Investigator Awards are among 55 new grants totaling more than $78 million that the institute announced Feb. 19. To date,
This spoiler-free review is based on the first three episodes of Altered Carbon season 2 but contains spoilers for season 1. Altered Carbon pulled out all the stops in season one, introducing viewers to a cyberpunk world ruled by wealthy nigh-immortals and others who, for a price, can digitally transfer their consciousness into new bodies.
This article is sponsored by Tor Books. Fantasy maps, which have been a staple of fiction for decades, can tell the reader a lot about the book’s world, story, and even characters. Perhaps the most famous comes from The Hobbit, with its Dwarvish rune ciphers explained by the language-loving author in a brief translation guide
Eli Roth (Hostel, Death Wish) is officially set to direct an upcoming film adaptation of the popular Borderlands video game franchise. “I’m so excited to dive into the world of Borderlands and I could not be doing it with a better script, producing team, and studio,” said Roth in a press release. “I have a
IMAGE: Figure. A: Optical image and band diagram of the heterojunction formed by the thickness variation of black phosphorus 2D material. B: Schematic of the tunnel field-effect transistor and the thickness-dependent… view more Credit: KAIST Researchers have reported a black phosphorus transistor that can be used as an alternative ultra-low power switch. A research team led
This Brooklyn Nine-Nine review contains spoilers. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 7 Episode 4 It’s been a while since we last Jimmy Jabbed, but clearly these games should have made a comeback a lot sooner. “The Jimmy Jab Games II” is the first standout episode of Season 7, reveling in the high-stakes world of having fun with your friends.
It’s awe inspiring to me that I can know from the moment a comic is announced that it is extremely For Me, and yet still be surprised at how good every issue is. It’s even more impressive that I’m getting it from two creators who are relatively new to the medium. But that’s the beauty
Our friends at ModMyMods, who helped us build our official Den of Geek PC last year, have released a new product called ModWater, a coolant that is specifically designed to help fuel the liquid cooling system in your PC. DIYers will likely be familiar with the water cooling systems that have become more common in today’s
IMAGE: Professor Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. view more Credit: Lehigh University Xiaoji Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University, has been named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow. This prestigious award, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, places Xu
IMAGE: Prof. Job Boekhoven and Caren Wanzke at the Technical University of Munich discovered a new material system that can release drugs with a constant release rate over a tunable period… view more Credit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active agents can be not only precisely dosed, but
IMAGE: Tulane National Primate Research Center Director Jay Rappaport (right) and Skip Bohm, associate director and chief veterinary medical officer, are part of a team establishing a COVID-19 research program at… view more Credit: Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano. From working to develop one of the first nonhuman primate models for the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)