IMAGE: Peptoid nanosheets are a single layer of crystals made from the spontaneous stacking of peptoid chains into parallel rows. Individual nanosheets floating in water were rapidly frozen and imaged by… view more Credit: Berkeley Lab Protein-like molecules called “polypeptoids” (or “peptoids,” for short) have great promise as precision building blocks for creating a variety of
IMAGE: A single-layer of tungsten disulfide, a two-dimensional material, was put on a silicon dioxide, a hydrophilic substrate and it showed tungsten disulfide interacting with water and oxygen molecules in the… view more Credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside for long and
Lucifer Season 5 is definitely happening! Sadly, though, the fifth season of Lucifer will be the last we see of the show. BUT it’s so much more than we ever thought possible, so give yourselves a pat on the back if you joined in with the #SaveLucifer campaign – you have earned it! Here’s everything
This article consists of nothing but Shazam! spoilers. We have a spoiler free review of the film here. Shazam! marks the first time the character has come to the big screen as a big budget movie (1941’s The Adventures of Captain Marvel was a serial, not a feature film). The movie is based heavily on one
Revealed by Microsoft during its E3 2018 media briefing, Halo 6 is actually called Halo Infinite. The game was announced with a cryptic two-minute trailer that doesn’t really tell us what the game is. In fact, all we really know based on the first trailer is that the story could feature a Halo ring. Master Chief
IMAGE: CaZrSe3 in the distorted orthorhombic perovskite phase depicted from the (a) side view and (b) top view. view more Credit: Ganesh Balasubramanian, Eric Osei-Agyemang and Challen Enninful Adu For solar cells to be widely used in the coming decades researchers must resolve two major challenges: increasing efficiency and lowering toxicity. Solar energy works through a
Elseworlds was the best, and most explicitly comic book-y Arrowverse crossover yet. It was more than just a way to get all the heroes together, it was an exploration of what makes each of them so special. And after all the reality altering, multiverse hopping superhero action, they still managed to end it with one big
Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne series may be coming to our TV screens. According to THR, the science fiction novels are in development at AMC Studios for a possible TV series from the speculative fiction writer who also brought us Annihilation. The Borne novels are set in the future in a city that has been destroyed by
If you’re one of the many who just can’t wait for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, then you might want to keep an eye on a newly announced Vampire: The Masquerade spin-off title that offers a slightly refined take on the franchise’s narrative experience. “Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York is a unique, atmospheric,
IMAGE: This is a zoomed-in SEM image of nanopillars of the metalens. view more Credit: (Image courtesy of Joon-Suh Park/Harvard SEAS) Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras, sensors, and displays. But so far, most of the lenses have been about the size
New York University Professor David Grier, who has pioneered technologies for organizing and probing matter with computational holography, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced today. “The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that
IMAGE: The graphene nanoribbon (center) consists of a single layer of honeycomb carbon atoms. The ribbon is only a few carbon atoms wide and has different electrical properties depending on its… view more Credit: Copyright: Jan-Philip Joost, AG Bonitz New materials are needed to further reduce the size of electronic components and thus make devices such
The properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides are attracting a great deal of interest, and one of the reasons is their catalytic activity. In particular, better catalysts are needed to exploit the potential of water electrolysis – splitting water into its component elements – to provide sustainable energy storage. “MoS2 is one of the most
IMAGE: Organic transistors based on single crystals of rubrene, a hydrocarbon, can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them when a crystal is slightly bent (strained). This useful behavior… view more Credit: Vitaly Podzorov/Rutgers University-New Brunswick p>Slightly bending semiconductors made of organic materials can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them and
Even before they had the movie rights to Cain Marko, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been an unstoppable juggernaut. The movies have been making all the money in the world, but Marvel is so rich in characters and concepts that they’ve begun to encompass the TV and streaming worlds, as well. We’re at a point
This gift guide is sponsored by Walmart. Den of Geek may receive a small commission if a product is purchased. Leaving the comfort of your own home on Cyber Monday? Who needs that? You should be exerting all your effort for the day by reheating leftover turkey, and gentling placing the dry, but still flavorful
IMAGE: Artistic representation of the strategy adopted in the work. Antibodies, by binding to antigen-conjugated DNA tiles, induce the assembly of tubular nanoscale structures. view more Credit: Ella Marushchenko What if we could use antibodies as functional tools for nanotechnology applications? A group of researchers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata started from this simple
HBO will not be foisting Larry David on any other network. Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 10 if officially happening. The announcement came in a surprisingly painless fashion and much quicker than Curb Your Enthusiasm is accustomed to (though it was nearly two years ago, December 2017, at this point). Larry David tends to like to make the
Here is a brief list of things that happen JUST in this exclusive preview of Justice League #37 that are categorically, clinically bananapants. – The Legion of Doom headquarters faces off with the Hall of Justice. Not metaphorically or anything. They actually fly and stare each other down. Please note, this is the first damn panel of
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is out now, and word on the street says the game is doing well: its early sales on PC have surpassed the launch numbers of both Star Wars Battlefront games that EA has released, which can only be a good sign. There’s been no official announcement of a sequel, but
IMAGE: Hans Zappe, Harry Levinson to lead SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS view more Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and Cardiff, UK — Two new co-editors-in-chief will take the helm of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3) starting 1 January, 2020. Harry Levinson, a consultant at HJL Lithography, and Hans Zappe, the
IMAGE: The book consists of 20 chapters including the four written by Professor Kim and covers the history, development, synthesis, and physiochemical properties of cucurbiturils, as well as their applications in… view more Credit: Kimoon Kim (POSTECH) By invitation from the Royal Society of Chemistry, POSTECH professor Kimoon Kim (Director, IBS Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity)
IMAGE: Understanding roughness at such microscopic levels allowed researchers to understand the mechanics of how soft surfaces adhere to them. view more Credit: University of Akron College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering PITTSBURGH (Dec. 2, 2019) — Tires gripping the road. Nonslip shoes preventing falls. A hand picking up a pen. A gecko climbing a
IMAGE: A green lower-energy laser light goes through silicon quantum dots, which the silicon quantum dots re-emit, or upconvert, into a higher-energy blue light. view more Credit: Lorenzo Mangolini & Ming Lee Tang/UC Riverside Materials scientists at the University of California, Riverside and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that it is possible to
IMAGE: Desorption of water isotopomers (H2O, HDO and D2O) from surfaces of isotope-mixed ice with various H/D compositions. view more Credit: NINS/IMS The physicochemical and biological properties of hydrogen-bonded systems are significantly affected by nuclear quantum effects including zero-point energies of vibrational modes, proton delocalization, and tunneling effect. These originate from the extremely low nuclear mass
IMAGE: Silicon nanocrystals are formed by a silane gas in a plasma process. view more Credit: Lorenzo Mangolini/UC Riverside A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized phenomenon–the transfer of energy between silicon and organic, carbon-based molecules–in a breakthrough
IMAGE: Future magnon torque based devices such as this could allow for faster electronic gadgets that require less power and do not overheat. view more Credit: National University of Singapore Modern computer memory encodes information by switching magnetic bits within devices. Now, a ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
IMAGE: This is an illustration of aligned metallic carbon nanotubes in the team’s thermoelectric device. A temperature gradient causes an electrical current to flow. view more Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used aligned “metallic” carbon nanotubes to create a device which converts heat to electrical energy (a thermoelectric
This Batwoman review contains spoilers. Batwoman Episode 8 In Batwoman’s (pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths) mid-season finale things get deadly as Mouse continue to impersonate Jake, Alice makes Catherine confess her sins to the world, and Sophie has some real talk with her husband. Sophie and Tyler were sidelined in this episode so they could deal with their
This article contains Watchmen spoilers. Watchmen episode 7, “An Almost Religious Awe,” is the hour where the remaining big questions finally start getting answered. And in the case of its last scene, it may even answer a question that you might not even realize had been asked in the first place. But from its first