IMAGE: University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Mathieu Francoeur has discovered a way to produce more electricity from heat than thought possible by creating a silicon chip, also known as… view more Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering It’s estimated that as much as two-thirds of energy consumed in the U.S. each year
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This The 100 review contains spoilers. The 100 Season 6 Episode 9 It seems strange to say that everything’s coming together, considering the overall high quality of this season. Nonetheless, this episode had the uniquely satisfying feeling of disparate threads knitting together. That is, until the emotional gut-punch of Marcus Kane’s death. While Greyston Holt’s time on
The return of DC’s best super-team is going to feature even more of the best heroes when Legion of Super-Heroes: Millenium #1 hits in October. Also Superman and Lois’s son from the present is being shot into the future to join the Legion after being aged to his teen years via time dilation. “Jon Kent
The Turok game franchise, which began as a violent and intense shooter for the N64, is returning in 2019 as an intensely cute isometric action title. Dubbed Turok: Escape From Lost Valley, this upcoming project is about as far from the original Turok games as you can without turning the series into a mobile puzzle game. This
A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, have discovered a new method that could be used to build quantum sensors with ultra-high precision. When individual atoms emit light, they do so in discrete packets called photons. When this light is measured, this discrete or ‘granular’ nature leads to especially low fluctuations in
Wisely deciding that “Unnamed WarnerMedia Streaming Service” was probably not that punchy of a branding move, WarnerMedia has now officially named its upcoming streaming media service. Warner announced that its new streaming service will be called HBO Max. Here is a helpful video teaser they launched alongside the announcement Video of HBO Max – WarnerMedia’s
The epistolary novel—that is, a story told through letters—dates back all the way to the 1400s in the earliest versions of the form, counting Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as famous examples. But what about the first time travel narrative told through correspondence? Could it have begun with
The apparent effort to get Keanu Reeves in everything continues with this new Metal Gear Solid 5 mod which replaces Big Boss with two Keanu Reeves characters. This mod, as spotted by PC Gamer, is a work-in-progress alteration of the PC version of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain which lets you play as
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Move aside, electrons; it’s time to make way for the trion. A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed, characterized, and controlled dark trions in a semiconductor — ultraclean single-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) — a feat that could increase the capacity and alter the form of
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…July 9, 2019 – Dogs can be trained to respond to haptic vibration commands while wearing a modified canine vest developed by an interdisciplinary research team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). The paper, “Vibrotactile Vest for Remote Human-Dog Communication,” will be presented at the World Haptics Conference on July 12 in Tokyo,
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have developed the first microchip valve powered by living cells. Earthworm muscle tissue allowed for a high contractile force that could be sustained for minutes, and unlike electrically controlled valves, did not require any external power source such as batteries. For several decades,
IMAGE: Schematic of a nanoscale structure called a ‘photonic crystal waveguide’ that contains quantum dots that can interact with one another when they are tuned to the same wavelength. view more Credit: Chul Soo Kim, US Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON — Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) developed a new technique that could enable
IMAGE: This graphic shows how a common MXene oxidizes, or degrades, under normal conditions, but is protected when exposed to a solution containing sodium L-ascorbate, a compound in the same family… view more Credit: Texas A&M University Engineering In work that could open a floodgate of future applications for a new class of nanomaterials known as
Osaka, Japan — A “vacuum” is generally thought to be nothing but empty space. But in fact, a vacuum is filled with “virtual particle-antiparticle pairs” of electrons and positrons that are continuously created and annihilated in unimaginably short time-scales. The quest for a better understanding of vacuum physics will lead to the elucidation of fundamental
A research team of fusion scientists has succeeded in developing “the nano-scale sculpture technique” to fabricate an ultra-thin film by sharpening a tungsten sample with a focused ion beam. This enables the nano-scale observation of a cross-section very near the top surface of the tungsten sample using the transmission electron microscope. The sculpture technique developed
IMAGE: Results of cathodoluminescence analysis applied to Mg ion-implanted GaN (left) and three-dimensional distribution of Mg atoms introduced into GaN as visualized by atom probe tomography (right). view more Credit: NIMS In Gallium Nitride (GaN) implanted with a small amount of magnesium (Mg), NIMS succeeded for the first time in visualizing the distribution and optical behavior
This Legion review contains spoilers. Legion Season 3 Episode 3 We were never supposed to get Charles Xavier on Legion. When the show was developed, FX and Fox made it quite clear that though a passing reference may be made to David’s famous mutant father, the character was unlikely to appear on screen. In Fox’s eyes, having
I know we’ve talked about it before, but the best part of the Unity Saga, Brian Michael Bendis and team’s first big Superman story (that really started back in Man of Steel but who’s nitpicking), is how it’s knitting together DC’s big, weird, crazy space stuff. Something I’ve found really surprising since DC Universe hugely
In an interview with Game Informer (as spotted by PC Gamer), developer Respawn spoke about Jedi: Fallen Order‘s protagonist and why they ultimately decided to make him a human. “Ultimately we didn’t go with an alien race because we felt like—no pun intended—that would alienate a lot of people,” said Jedi: Fallen Order director Stig Asmussen. ”We
Yuri On Ice Season 2 is hotly-anticipated by much of the international TV community after the first season of the Japanese anime set in the world of international male figure skating took the internet by storm after it first aired what feels like forever ago in 2016. The sports anime revolves around anxious Japanese figure skater
Imagine for a moment that the money to be made from superhero movies and the associated merchandising went not only to the big studios but also to the heroes themselves. Not to actors playing the powered individuals but the actual caped crusaders and costumed crimefighters who lived in real life. Would their vigilante justice take
People looking for their next helping of gruesome Nazi-demolishing action will surely find it in Wolfenstein: Youngblood, the next installment in MachineGames’ alt-history shooter series, but there’s also exceptional character work underneath all the blood and guts. New leads Jess and Soph Blazkowicz, daughters of the franchise’s infamous killing machine, B.J., star as a new
IMAGE: (Background) A false-colored scanning electron microscope image of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires coated with titanium dioxide, or titania (TiO2). On average, the nanowires are 10 times longer than they are… view more Credit: Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 3457?3463 UPTON, NY–Solar energy harvested by semiconductors–materials whose electrical resistance is in between that of regular metals and
IMAGE: There is an optimal periodic structure, which minimizes the thermal conduction to a record low level, with a period of about 10 micrometers. view more Credit: University of Jyvaskyla/Ilari Maasilta The group of professor Ilari Maasilta at the Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä specializes on studying how different nanostructures can be used to enhance or
UK researchers have developed world-leading Compound Semiconductor (CS) technology that can drive future high-speed data communications. A team from Cardiff University’s Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) worked with collaborators to innovate an ultrafast and highly sensitive ‘avalanche photodiode’ (APD) that creates less electronic ‘noise’ than its silicon rivals. APDs are highly sensitive semiconductor devices that
Tsukuba, Japan – A team at the University of Tsukuba introduced a new procedure of harvesting energy and organic molecules from algae using nanoporous graphene and porous graphene foams. By developing a reusable system that can evaporate water at high rate without the need for centrifugation or squeezing. This research has a great potential for
Scientists from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) with their colleagues developed multifunctional metal alloys that emit and absorb heat at the same time and change their size and volume under the influence of a magnetic field. This effect is caused by changes in the structure of the substance. The alloys may be used
Theranostics is an emerging field of medicine whose name is a combination of “therapeutics” and “diagnostics”. The idea behind theranostics is to combine drugs and/or techniques to simultaneously – or sequentially – diagnose and treat medical conditions, and also monitor the response of the patient. This saves time and money, but can also bypass some
A window film with a specially designed molecule could be capable of taking the edge off the worst midday heat and instead distributing it evenly from morning to evening. The molecule has the unique ability to capture energy from the sun’s rays and release it later as heat. This is shown by researchers at Chalmers
IMAGE: The tubes consist of several walls that are perfectly uniform and just a few atoms thick. They display optical properties that make them perfect for use as fluorophores or photocatalysts. view more Credit: EPFL If scientists could find a way to control the process for making semiconductor components on a nanometric scale, they could give