The Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover is about to get certified Spider-fied for its upcoming second issue! The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover by BOOM! Studios (under license by Hasbro, Inc. and in partnership with IDW and Nickelodeon) already has no shortage of variant covers and we’ve got the exclusive reveal of
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This The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel review contains no spoilers. Midge Maisel’s radical pivot has effected everyone in her life. Mostly we hear them grousing – blaming her, lamenting her unwillingness to fall back in line. But, more than the previous two, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season 3 shows how Midge’s gambit has opened up a world of
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IMAGE: A sample of the novel homogeneous polymer gel. view more  Credit: Image: © 2019 Li et al. Gel-like materials have a wide range of applications, especially in chemistry and medicine. However, their usefulness is sometimes limited by their inherent random and disordered nature. Researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Solid State Physics have
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IMAGE: A photoresponsive chiral catalyst based on an oligotriazole-functionalized unidirectional molecular motor has been developed for stereodivergent anion binding catalysis. The motor function controls the helical chirality of supramolecular assemblies with… view more  Credit: R. Dorel / University of Groningen Many organic molecules are chiral, which means that they are non-superimposable on their mirror image. Those
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Wilmington, DE, Dec. 6, 2019 -Amidst rising hopes for using CRISPR gene editing tools to repair deadly mutations linked to conditions like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease, a new study in the Nature journal Communications Biology describes a new innovation that could accelerate this work by rapidly revealing unintended and potentially harmful changes introduced
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The Netflix documentary series The Confession Killer is filled with more twists than a feature film. Convicted murderer Henry Lee Lucas actually changed law enforcement procedure. The Texas Rangers and the state’s police both wanted a piece of him. District Attorney Vic Feazell wanted to ride the case to a political career. Dallas homicide detective
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Stephen King’s novel The Outsider is becoming a drama series at HBO, which has given the adaptation a 10-episode order.  The story of The Outsider puts a mind-blowingly monstrous twist on traditional murder fiction. Here, police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) fields an investigation in the fictional Oklahoma town of Flint City that upends the local populace when a
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The internet has revealed a brand new look at a canceled Spider-Man 4 game, which would have tied in with Sam Raimi’s movie sequel of the same name (which also got cancelled, of course). A decent chunk of footage from the binned spinoff game has arrived online thanks to a YouTube channel called Hard4Games. This
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IMAGE: High-resolution 3D pHe mapping of living melanoma cells with feedback-controlled double-barrel SICM-pH nanoprobe. The 3D SICM topographical images (left column) and 3D pHe distributions (right column) of low-buffered living melanoma… view more  Credit: Kanazawa University “It is becoming clear that an acid extracellular pH plays an essential role in cancer cell progression, invasiveness and resistance
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Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at The University of Tokyo introduced a new physical model that predicts the dynamics of glassy materials based solely on their local degree of atomic structural order. Using computer simulations, they showed how this theory greatly improves our understanding of how glassy liquids become more viscous on cooling. This work has
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While much of the comedy world circumnavigates around the perilous waters of microagressions, there is at least one laughter delivery system which sails straight into it. Coming from an irreverent tradition which included an album called That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick, National Lampoon provides gags for an audience who can take a joke. They promise
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A new report by Kotaku suggests that Microsoft is still working on a disc-less version of Xbox Scarlett.  As the report notes, there seems to be a bit of confusion regarding this development. The earliest rumors regarding Microsoft’s next-gen plans suggested that Microsoft was working on a flagship premium next-gen console as well as a
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2019 — Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) Spring 2020 National Meeting & Exposition, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year, at https://bit.ly/33Hd9TD. The meeting will be held March 22-26, 2020, in Philadelphia. Each ACS national meeting and exposition attracts 11,000-16,000 chemists, chemical
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IMAGE:  “We have learned that magnetic nanoparticles can receive magnetic fields and translate them into signals that neurons can understand. ” GABRIELA ROMERO URIBE, UTSA Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering… view more  Credit: Courtesy of UTSA Dec. 5, 2019 — For decades the renowned English physicist Stephen Hawking lived with a motor
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With one magic word, Shazam has become one of the greatest superheroes in history. Billy Batson was imbued with the power of the wizard Shazam when he spoke that one magic word, Shazam! A fierce lightning strike would transform Billy into the World’s Mightiest Mortal. He first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (1939) and was
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In what should not come as a surprise to anyone, Sony has indicated they are no longer interested in producing handheld gaming devices.  “PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great, but clearly it’s a business that we’re no longer in now,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of
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IMAGE: Associate Professor Farshad Moradi from the Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, is heading the project. view more  Credit: Peer Klercke The cost of corrosion runs to 3-4 per cent of the gross world product (GWP) annually, and therefore there is increasing international focus on monitoring infrastructure projects. The Department of Engineering at Aarhus University is
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IMAGE: (a) Scanning electron micrograph of the measured Superconductor(Nb)/Normal metal (Ag)/ Superconductor(Nb) Josephson junction. (b) Color-coded sketch of the normalized energy-phase dependent density of states of a long diffusive SNS junction…. view more  Credit: University of Jyväskylä/Pauli Virtanen Understanding how microwave absorption changes the transport properties of diffusive Josephson junctions is at the forefront of interest
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