This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 12 “Am I the only one staring at three blank pages?” For such an exposition heavy episode, “Three Pages” still finds plenty of time to move the core Van Helsing tale forward, and at the same time clearly demonstrate the show’s continued willingness to
Naraka: Bladepoint looked like one of the more interesting titles show at the Game Awards 2019, and everything we’ve learned about the game since its reveal has only raised our interest in this project. While it’s not made entirely clear in the game’s trailer, Naraka is actually a melee multiplayer title. According to developer 24 Entertainment,
As is typical with The Expanse, the ending moments of season 4 represent a narrative shift to prepare for a new story arc in season 5, following the same natural borders presented by successive novels in the James S. A. Corey series upon which the show is based. With the protomolecule no longer a factor,
Every Tom King comic is about something more than what it says on the cover. Heroes in Crisis is about processing trauma, even when you’re a superhero. The Vision was about how difficult it is to build and maintain a family. And whenever he teams up with Mitch Gerads, it’s a pretty safe bet that something special is coming.
It looks like Elder Scrolls Online will soon be visiting the land of Skyrim. At least that’s the impression we got from a new trailer for the MMO that aired during last night’s Game Awards. The end of that preview showed a familiar figure overlooking what seemed to be Skryim while some memorable music played. We
IMAGE: Tin oxide SNCs finely prepared by a dendrimer template method are loaded on the thin silica shell layers of plasmonic amplifiers, such that the Raman signals of the SNCs are… view more Credit: Science Advances Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) developed a new methodology that allows researchers to assess the chemical composition
IMAGE: Light localized in space inside the topological crystal, entangled by interaction and topology. view more Credit: ITMO University A new approach to trapping light in artificial photonic materials by a City College of New York-led team could lead to a tremendous boost in the transfer speed of data online. Research into topological photonic metamaterials headed
IMAGE: A new wrap developed by researchers at McMaster University repels everything that comes into contact with it, including viruses and bacteria. view more Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, Dec. 13, 2019 – A team of researchers at McMaster University has developed a self-cleaning surface that can repel all forms of bacteria, preventing the
IMAGE: General distribution of stresses in the “endoprosthesis-skeleton ” model of the biomechanical structure when a patient is standing on two legs. The voltage range is from 1 to 100 MPa. view more Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University A team of scientists from the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Center of the National Technology Initiative (NTI)
IMAGE: The construction of a synthetic DNA nanopore capable of selectively translocating protein-size macromolecules across lipid bilayers. view more Credit: Rasmus Peter Thomsen, Aarhus University In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Based on a synthetically engineered transmembrane protein, nanopore sequencing allows long DNA strands to be channelled
This Supernatural review contains spoilers. “What is it with you people? Can’t anything you do be easy?” Donatello asked the Winchesters this episode. It would seem not, as they had to visit Hell, find Adam and Michael, and continue their drastic last-ditch efforts to spurn a vengeful Chuck in his world ending plans. The Winchesters’
No matter what they’re into – be it horror, sci-fi and Bond or Marvel, cartoons and comic books – geeks of the world are united by their unquenchable thirst to know absolutely everything about the objects of their affection – and then prove it! Vintage Geek by longtime Den of Geek friend Marshall Julius is
NetherRealm Studios’ Injustice: Gods Among Us was born out of the idea of the Joker dying a gruesome death. What better brand synergy than tossing him into the Mortal Kombat universe? We’ve known for a while that Joker would be part of the first Kombat Pack as the last of Mortal Kombat 11’s initial wave of
This article contains spoilers through “Part Three” of Crisis On Infinite Earths. If you’ve been watching Crisis on Infinite Earths, and are caught up with the most recent episode, you’ve met Jefferson Pierce. If you do not watch Black Lightning, it may have been for the first time… Black Lightning has always been an entity
Much of what happened at Luke Skywalker’s Jedi academy the night Ben Solo turned to the dark side remains a mystery. Star Wars: The Last Jedi fleshed out a bit of that story, showing us the moment that drove Ben to turn against the Jedi, but how the young Solo was corrupted and how he took
This article is sponsored by 1939 Games. World War II has served as the historical setting for countless video games over the years. Most of these games have been first-person shooters that put you smack-dab in the middle of the battlefield. But 1939 Games’ free-to-play KARDS takes a more unique approach to WWII, infusing classic
Safe nuclear waste storage, new ways of generating and storing hydrogen, and technologies for capturing and reusing greenhouse gases are all potential spinoffs of a new study by University of Guelph researchers. Published recently in Nature Scientific Reports, the study involved the first-ever use of antimatter to investigate processes connected to potential long-term storage of
IMAGE: At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action, with NV centers in the… view more Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab; Ella Marushchenko Since their invention more than 60 years ago, diamond anvil cells have made it possible for scientists
IMAGE: An illustration shows how motorized nanomachines triggered by light drill into bacteria, making a path for antibiotics. Experiments showed the bacteria became susceptible again to the antibiotic meropenem, to which… view more Credit: Don Thushara Galbadage/Biola University HOUSTON – (Dec. 12, 2019) – Molecular drills have gained the ability to target and destroy deadly bacteria
This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 3 “Together we will make Kattegat one of the greatest cities in the world.” “Ghosts, Gods, and Running Dogs” features at least four active plot threads as Vikings looks to ramp up its sixth and final season. Unfortunately, few garner much interest, and the follow up
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two cousins who create a comic book superhero during World War II, is coming to Showtime! According to Variety, the series commitment is part of a larger, multi-year deal Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman, have signed with CBS TV. Chabon is
The Game Awards is the video game industry’s biggest celebration of the year, honoring the latest and greatest in gaming. The 2019 ceremony is almost here and the nominees are some of the best games we’ve played this year. The 2019 Game of the Year nominees are Control, Death Stranding, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Resident Evil 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die
IMAGE: Fold your own nanocube! Although the nanocubes used in the research project build themselves, you can fold your own using this model. Each yellow X represents locations where researchers at… view more Credit: Image by Shuichi Hiraoka, CC-BY-ND The process of building a tiny cube has revealed some of the fundamental mysteries of how molecules
South Park’s 23rd season–one that featured its historic 300th episode–comes to a close with a little holiday cheer. Regardless of what happens to Santa in the season finale, South Park season 24 is already confirmed. In fact, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker agreed to a deal earlier this year that will keep the show
When it comes to Ghostbusters lore, if you were to ask about their biggest villains, the list would begin with the likes of Stay Puft/Gozer, Slimer, and Vigo the Carpathian. Then maybe some of the more memorable monsters from the cartoon or someone might bring up that incel guy from the reboot. But then there’s
The Game Awards 2019 will kick off a special event known as The Game Festival that allows gamers across the globe to play some sneak peeks at upcoming titles. “The Game Festival is a first-of-its-kind digital consumer event that brings the magic of hands-on gameplay demos to fans around the world,” reads a press release confirming
A pioneering cloud and global gateway for nanotechnology research and education has received a National Science Foundation grant renewal, completing its 20-year mission while looking to the future to create new technologies. The cloud, known as nanoHUB, was developed through the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) as a virtual society that shares simulation software, data,
Berkeley — If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it’s a good insulator because heat energy has a hard time moving through empty space. Vibrations of atoms or molecules, which carry thermal energy, simply can’t travel if there are no atoms or molecules around. But a new
CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could be a key to mitigating global climate change. Published today in Nature, the findings are important because atmospheric CO2 has increased 40 percent since the dawn of
IMAGE: This is an artistic illustration of nonclassical effects in nanoscale electromagnetism. When the confinement of electromagnetic fields in nanostructures becomes comparable to the electronic length scales in materials, the associated… view more Credit: Marin Soljači Research Group More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk Maxwell’s “A Dynamical