Apex Legends Season 4 is on the way, and it’s bringing a new playable Legend with it. The new character, named Forge, is described as a former MMA champion whose place in the in-game competition is oddly sponsored by Hammond Robotics. While Hammond Robotics has made a couple of cameos in Apex Legends, the company plays
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IMAGE: A simple, modular chemical approach could produce over 65,000 different types of complex nanorods. Electron microscope images are shown for 32 of these nanorods, which form with various combinations of… view more Credit: Schaak Laboratory, Penn State Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that could produce over
IMAGE: Researchers in ORNL’s Quantum Information Science group summarized their significant contributions to quantum networking and quantum computing in a special issue of Optics & Photonics News. view more Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has conducted a series of experiments to
How would you go about returning books to the correct shelves in a large library with the least amount of walking? How would you determine the shortest route for a truck that has to deliver many packages to multiple cities? These are some examples of the “traveling salesman problem”, a type of “combinatorial optimization” problem,
Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2020 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, which is presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to a scientist or public servant who has contributed significantly to the advancement of science in the United States. “Uniquely, Chad
Sepsis claims one life every four seconds. It is the primary cause of death in hospitals, and one of the ten leading causes of death worldwide. Sepsis is associated with the body’s inflammatory response to a bacterial infection and progresses extremely rapidly: every hour that goes by before it is properly diagnosed and treated increases
IMAGE: Comparison of Wannier functions resulting from different minimization schemes in gallium arsenide (larger pink spheres are Ga cation atoms and yellow spheres are As anions). view more Credit: Valerio Vitale @Imperial College London Wannier functions were first introduced by Gregory Wannier in 1937 as an alternative way of describing the electronic ground state of periodic
This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 8 “You aren’t fit to be called a son of Ragnar.” With the death of Lagertha, attention now turns toward Bjorn Ironside, and Vikings appears ready to step up the pace of Ivar’s story in Rus and finally return to Floki’s settlement in Iceland. “Valhalla Can
In a recent Reddit AMA the Half-Life: Alyx team answered some questions regarding the much anticipated upcoming VR title. The conversation soon turned to whether or not Alyx will utilize VR horror elements. According to one playtests, Alyx not only features horror aspects but they may prove to be pretty intense for some. “I admit
Rosario Dawson cemented her exit from Netflix’s street-level Marvel shows last year; a move that proved prescient with the subsequent cancellation of Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Having moved on, Dawson will star on USA Network crime anthology series Briarpatch, which adapts the 1984 Ross Thomas novel of the same
DMZ, the cynically-prophesizing DC Comics-published Vertigo title depicting a United States left literally divided after a second Civil War, is the next comic book-inspired small screen project embraced by HBO. Indeed, the premium cable channel has brought in a prominent name in Ava DuVernay – who happens to have her hands full with DC film
During the same Reddit AMA that confirmed Half-Life: Alyx will feature some horror elements, at least one fan couldn’t help but point out that it all seemed a bit strange that Valve is not only making a new Half-Life game but actually talking to the community about it. Surprisingly, Valve addressed that comment. “Half-Life isn’t
Human skin is a fascinating and multifunctional organ with unique properties originating from its flexible and compliant nature. It allows for interfacing with external physical environment through numerous receptors interconnected with the nervous system. Scientists have been trying to transfer these features to artificial skin for a long time, aiming at robotic applications. Operation of
IMAGE: Uniformly parking kinesin proteins allows researchers to observe how they work together to transport microtubules. view more Credit: Science Graphics Japan — Any kind of body movement both big and small, from the muscles in your arms to the neurons transporting those signals to your brain, rely on a massive collection of proteins we call
Fifty years ago, scientists hit upon what they thought could be the next rocket fuel. Carboranes — molecules composed of boron, carbon and hydrogen atoms clustered together in three-dimensional shapes — were seen as the possible basis for next-generation propellants due to their ability to release massive amounts of energy when burned. It was technology
Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over a wide temperature range using deep-sea osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). This finding could open a new dimension in the application of artificial machines fabricated from biomolecular motors and other proteins. Biomolecular motors are the smallest natural machines that keep living organisms dynamic. They can generate
IMAGE: Conversion (doubling) of light frequency using a nanoresonator view more Credit: Credit: (left) Anastasia Shalaeva; (right) Koshelev et al. Science An international team of researchers from ITMO University, the Australian National University, and Korea University have experimentally trapped an electromagnetic wave in a gallium arsenide nanoresonator a few hundred nanometers in size for a record-breaking
This Arrow review contains spoilers. Arrow Season 8 Episode 9 “Green Arrow & the Canaries” pulls off something pretty impressive in just an hour, managing to answer many questions about how the Crisis on Infinite Earths affected Arrow’s corner of the Arrowverse while the backdoor pilot gave the audience a sense of what the new show’s vibe
This Legends of Tomorrow episode review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow Season 5 Episode 2 Well that was incredible. I stopped being defensive about how much I love Legends of Tomorrow sometime towards the end of the second season. A little before the show stopped being defensive about how much fun it was, now that
Maxime Beland, the creative director of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Splinter Cell: Blacklist, has returned to Ubisoft. Reports indicate that Beland has returned to Ubisoft as a member of a creative team within the studio that will seemingly preside over the creative process of all upcoming games. It’s not clear at this time what the
Rapid progress in the field of metallic nanotechnology is sparking a science revolution that is likely to impact all areas of society, according to professor of physics Ventsislav Valev and his team at the University of Bath in the UK. Metallic nanotechnology is an area that allows microscopic particles of metals, such as gold and
The kid who lived in the “creepy house on the corner” grew up to keep an eye on all the creepy corners. Paranormal Investigator and documentary filmmaker Steve Shippy, who is also an independent rapper known as Prozak, keeps things chill in the new Travel Channel series, Haunting in the Heartland. “Why do so many communities
The Hunger Games is readying a return to the pop culture panorama in the form of a prequel novel, which will see author Suzanne Collins revisit the dystopian society of Panem, except at a time well before Katniss Everdeen even existed, much less ignited the titular contest as “The Girl on Fire.” Indeed, Collins’s franchise
New information suggests that Valve could release free versions of the Half-Life franchise ahead of the release of Half-Life: Alyx. As PC Gamer notes, some Steam users recently received a notification related to Half-Life Alyx that noted that the Half-Life Collection will be free leading up to the launch of the upcoming VR title. Users
IMAGE: Rice University postdoctoral fellow Anulekha Haridas holds a full-cell lithium-ion battery built to test the effect of an alumina coating on the cathode. The nanoscale coating protects cathodes from degrading…. view more Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON – (Jan. 21, 2020) – The process of developing better rechargeable batteries may be cloudy, but there’s an
QLED screens have been on the market for a few years now. They are known for their bright, intense colours, which are produced using what is known as quantum dot technology: QLED stands for quantum dot light emitting diode. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a technology that increases the energy efficiency of QLEDs.
IMAGE: Figure showing streamlines of flow in the lubricant during sliding of a rigid indenter on a soft substrate visualized by tracking of fluorescent particles in the fluid, as discussed in… view more Credit: Lehigh University Anand Jagota, professor and founding chair of Lehigh University’s bioengineering department, has arrived at a milestone in his 15 years
Viruses are probably the most peculiar “life forms” known to us, with each species having unique characteristics. One thing common to all viruses is that they attack a “host” cell and hijack its machinery, using it for its own replication. A type of large virus, called “giant virus,” has interesting ways of attacking its host
IMAGE: Schematic explanation for the developed TADF-active macrocyclic material view more Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan – A team including researchers from Osaka University has produced a new molecular emitter for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Using rational chemical design with U-shaped synthetic building blocks, the scientists were able to arrange the electron donors and acceptors into
Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been around for over forty years. The most widely used form is based on thiols, bound to a metal surface. However, although the thiol SAMs are very versatile, they are also chemically unstable. Exposure of these monolayers to air will lead to oxidation and breakdown within a single day. University