We stopped pretending that we could crown the best TV show of any given year a while ago. The past decade saw an explosion of quality original programming broadcast on so many different channels and streaming services that it’s a masochistic pursuit to even try to keep up. How can you confidently declare a cumulative
Hulu put a steak in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles series adaptation after almost a year of development, according to Variety. But, like Lestat de Lioncourt himself, the project may not be going to ground for too long. What’s an Anne Rice project without controversy? Fans of the series bared fangs when Tom Cruise was cast
Traveller’s Tales has revealed the next LEGO video game in its pipeline: the company has been beavering away on LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which will retell all nine films in the main Star Wars movie series as fresh slices of brick-based interactive entertainment. “LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga marks our return to
IMAGE: (a) Both lumbar MNs and higher motor centers, including the corticospinal (CST), rubrospinal (RST) and descending propriospinal (dPST) tracts, are required to initiate and maintain locomotor function in normal conditions. (b)… view more Credit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS — Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have made several novel discoveries in the field
IMAGE: Paul Davies new book, The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information are Solving the Mystery of Life, has been selected the book of the year for 2019… view more Credit: Arizona State University Paul Davies’ newest book, The Demon in the Machine, takes aim at one of the great outstanding scientific enigmas
IMAGE: Highly sensitive liquid metal-based soft pressure sensor integrated with 3D-printed microbump array. view more Credit: KAIST Soft pressure sensors have received significant research attention in a variety of fields, including soft robotics, electronic skin, and wearable electronics. Wearable soft pressure sensors have great potential for the real-time health monitoring and for the early diagnosis of
IMAGE: The device allows researchers to mimic the environment inside the body to screen for better cancer screening drugs. view more Credit: Kyoto University/Yokokawa Lab Japan — Kyoto University researchers have developed a new ‘tumor-on-a-chip’ device that can better mimic the environment inside the body, paving the way for improved screening of potential cancer fighting drugs.
IMAGE: Artists’ impression of quantum vortices in a liquid. These are the quantum equivalent of vortices in water or a tornado. Their interactions cause dynamics analogous to that of a cyclone. view more Credit: Dr. Christopher Baker University of Queensland researchers have combined quantum liquids and silicon-chip technology to study turbulence for the first time, opening
Even though violence, gore, and sex fill Adult Swim’s airwaves, there are still wholesome rays of positivity that shine through the nihilism. Joe Pera Talks With You is almost anti-comedy in how simple and genuine it is. Spun off from his popular infomercial specials, Joe Pera’s series looks at his various mundane passions as he
This The Witcher review contains no spoilers. It’s inevitable that Netflix’s The Witcher will be compared to Game of Thrones. Both are fantasy series based on popular existing properties, and The Witcher is being released in the wake of Game of Thrones‘…oh…how about “controversial” ending. Yet, that comparison isn’t entirely fair. After watching the first five episodes of The Witcher, it’s apparent
The Star Wars saga will continue long after the final chapter of the Sequel Trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker! The Skywalker Saga may be coming to a close, but there are still plenty of Star Wars movies and TV shows in the works. This is the page where we’ll keep track of all the upcoming Star Wars movie and
The end of the year marks the end of the decade. Even the usual idiots at Mad Magazine know that. They are such experts in the art of idiocy with deep understanding of its complexities they’ve been redubbed the usual gang of geniuses. As smart as that may make them seem, MAD entrusted Den of Geek
Resident Evil 3 producers Peter Fabiano and Masao Kawada spoke to Famitsu (as translated by Siliconera) about some of the changes they’ve made to the upcoming remakes. First off, the pair indicates that there will be notable changes made in the Resident Evil 3 remake. While they didn’t break down everything that will be different in
IMAGE: This is the ear-EEG device. view more Credit: AU Foto Researchers at the Department of Engineering are world leaders in brain measurement via a special device fitted in the ear like a hearing aid. The technology is called ear-EEG, and now the university has received a new grant to ensure further development of this Danish-designed
TROY, N.Y. — As the lithium-ion batteries that power most phones, laptops, and electric vehicles become increasingly fast-charging and high-performing, they also grow increasingly expensive and flammable. In research published recently in Energy Storage Materials, a team of engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrated how they could — by using aqueous electrolytes instead of the
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — There’s an interesting fluid dynamics phenomenon that happens every morning in millions of cereal bowls. When there are just a few bits of cereal left floating on top of the milk, they tend to cluster together in the middle or around the edges of the bowl, rather than dispersing across
Leading a double life as both solids and liquids, liquid crystals occupy center stage for creating smaller, faster and more efficient technologies. Even at the level of single particles, liquid crystals can bend light and react to external forces, like electric fields or physical pushes and pulls. And so, a tiny quantity of liquid crystals
IMAGE: Different views of the 3D-?printed miniature David (1 mm high) made of pure copper. view more Credit: Giorgio Ercolano, Exaddon There he is, standing upon his pedestal: David by Michelangelo. A world-?famous statue that nearly every child can recognise. But this David is just 1 millimeter tall, pedestal included, and is made not of marble
This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 4 “I will stay and defend the dead.” After a less than inspired season opening, Vikings returns to form with an episode that hones in on many of the narrative details that made the series great. Despite a focus on the political intrigue surrounding King Olaf’s
Superman: Red Son is the next iconic DC Comics story to get the animated feature treatment, and it’s coming soon! Indeed, the 2003 comic miniseries from Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, and Killian Plunkett, which might just be the best known Elseworlds tale ever, is set land its animated movie in 2020. The original story imagines
Microsoft (kind of) clarified the meaning of the Xbox Series X name by explaining that Series X is indeed just the name of a single model of Xbox. “The name we’re carrying forward to the next generation is simply Xbox,” said Microsoft via a statement made to Business Insider. “And at The Game Awards you
The following contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 9. Every iteration of Watchmen needs a defining symbol. HBO’s opted for an egg. The best known symbol from the original Watchmen is a yellow smiley face splattered with blood. The image recurred throughout the series and became an iconic visual cue of the book’s depiction of the
Comic book icons and heroes have been appearing on toy shelves since the days of Captain Action and Mego. But sometimes, toys that win the hearts and minds of kids of all ages are given their own comics, allowing toy fans to see their favorite bits of plastic in action by some of the best
Bandai Namco is working on a new Dragon Ball Z Action-RPG title. Originally known as Project Z, we learned at E3 2019 that the game is actually called Dragon Ball Z Kakarot and it will focus on some of Goku’s adventures in the manga and anime. So far, we know the game will cover Goku’s
IMAGE: Ali Abolmaali, view more Credit: The University of Texas at Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington and the city of Waxahachie are collaborating on robotic inspections of several miles of the city’s sewer pipelines. Ali Abolmaali, professor and chair of UTA’s Civil Engineering Department, will lead the pilot project, which will lead to estimates
Imagine swarms of robotic insects moving around us as they perform various tasks. It might sound like science fiction, but it’s actually more plausible than you might think. Researchers at EPFL’s School of Engineering have developed a soft robotic insect, propelled at 3 cm per second by artificial muscles. The team developed two versions of
IMAGE: The TEM image shows the superstructure which is created by doping of Bi2Te3 with manganese: Between the originally 5-atom-layer thick units (QL) new 7-atom-layer units are formed by self-organization in… view more Credit: G. Springholz/Uni Linz New effects in solid-state physics are often first discovered at temperatures near absolute zero (0 Kelvin or -273 °C).
A lot can happen in a year, especially when it comes to science. As 2019 draws to a close, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, is highlighting the year’s biggest stories in chemistry, top research trends and important developments in a special issue. In addition, the magazine makes
Associate Professor Menglin Chen has received a major grant from the Carlsberg Foundation to develop a completely new method of regenerating brain and heart cells. The method uses water-based nanofibers coated with organic photovoltaic nanomaterials to create light controlled neural stimulating scaffolds inside the body. With a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation of DKK 4.2
This The Purge review contains spoilers. The Purge Season 2 Episode 10 Near the end of “7:01 AM,” Marcus dumps an unconscious Ben onto the sidewalk outside of the medical clinic with the comment, “Let the Purge take care of him.” The Purge is the solution to Marcus’s problem; he brought a maniac into a