IMAGE: Quantitative phase images reveal more details than classical microscopy images. The KAUST technique captures both bright-field images (top) and phase images (bottom) in a single measurement. view more Credit: © 2019 KAUST Microscopes have been at the center of many of the most important advances in biology for many centuries. Now, KAUST researchers have shown
An international group of scientists with IKBFU professor Anatoliy Snigirev among them has published an article that proposes a new method for studying the structure of complexly organized materials of both artificial and natural origin. The article was published by the Journal of Applied Crystallography. Prof. Anatoliy Snigirev said: “After the discovery of x-ray radiation,
IMAGE: An optical network including the electro-opto-mechanical switches: Depending on the voltage, the switches either deflect a light beam by 90 degrees (front left) or let it pass through the waveguide… view more Credit: Haffner C, et al 2019 Self-driving cars have become better and more reliable in recent years. Before they might be allowed to
IMAGE: A concentric array of liquid crystal microlenses provides 4D information about objects. Scale bar, 20 μm. view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07104 Most images captured by a camera lens are flat and two dimensional. Increasingly, 3D imaging technologies are providing the crucial context of depth for scientific and medical applications. 4D
This Arrow review contains spoilers. Arrow Season 8 Episode 5 This episode sends Oliver and his family back to Russia for a nostalgia-filled adventure, while Roy and Diggle had a heart to heart and just about everyone else was sidelined off-screen out of necessity. There’s something about seeing Stephen Amell shooting those tennis balls, the iconography from
The culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has arrived with Avengers: Endgame, where the greatest Marvel superheroes tangle with Thanos the Mad Titan, following up on the events of Avengers: Infinity War. Since showing up at the end of the first Avengers movie, it’s been pretty apparent that Thanos would be scouring the cosmos for the
Some fans upset by Pokemon Sword and Shield‘s controversial Pokedex compendium have decided to take matters into their own hands. Let’s take a step back to properly examine this situation. See, most of the previous Pokemon games allowed you to import data from older titles in order to eventually enjoy a complete Pokedex of Pokemon. Developer
IMAGE: Extracting light modulation using the interfacial Pockels effect. view more Credit: Prof Eiji Tokunaga, Tokyo University of Science Light is versatile in nature. In other words, it shows different characteristics when traveling through different types of materials. This property has been explored in various technologies, but the way in which light interacts with materials needs
Martin Scorsese‘s gangster film The Irishman promises to deliver classic cinema to Netflix while the rest of the movie-going public ride marvelous theme park attractions on the big screen. David Chase is doing post-production on The Many Saints of Newark, a film prequel to the series which changed television. The Sopranos premiered on HBO on Jan. 10, 1999, immediately
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a comic that hates the internet quite as much as Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen, and I’m 100% on board. In fact, it’s where a good chunk of the magic of this delightful book comes from. Turning Jimmy into a dickhead Youtube streamer is Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber’s EXTREMELY
At Microsoft’s big X019 event in London, a dark new action game starring former Hellboy actor Ron Perlman was revealed. It’s called West of Dead and it comes to us from UK-based studio Upstream Arcade. The official press release describes the game thusly: “Thrown into the unknown procedurally generated hunting grounds of Purgatory, your skills will
IMAGE: This is a side-by-side look at platinum (left) and glassy carbon (right) thin-film electrodes for deep brain stimulation. view more Credit: SDSU Imagine having an electrode embedded in your brain in a surgical procedure that involves drilling holes in your skull to implant it. Now imagine going through an MRI scan for medical evaluation, when
Ochre, one of Earth’s oldest naturally occurring materials, was often used as a vivid red paint in ancient rock art known as pictographs across the world. Despite its broad use throughout human history and a modern focus on how the artistic symbolism is interpreted, little research exists on the paint itself and how it was
France is one of the main international partners in research projects supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), which has cooperation agreements with 15 French funding agencies, universities, research institutions and companies. More than 120 research projects have been approved under the auspices of these agreements. To celebrate the partnership and stimulate new collaborations
Tracking the lateral position of single cells and particles plays an important role in evaluating the efficiency of microfluidic cell focusing, separation and sorting. Traditionally, the performance of microfluidic cell separation and sorting is evaluated either by analyzing the input and collected output samples requiring extra multiple steps of off-chip analysis or the use of
IMAGE: 1000 single nano-tube transistors on a chip view more Credit: Aalto university Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. Carbon nanotubes are sheets of one atom-thick layer of graphene rolled up seamlessly into different sizes and shapes. To be able to use them in commercial products like
IMAGE: Block diagram of Faraday effect measurement system using dual-comb spectroscopy. The signal comb (red line) passes through the sample and is superposed with the local comb (blue line). The vertical and… view more Credit: ©The University of Electro-Communications, Kaoru Minoshima, and NEOARK Professor Kaoru Minoshima from the University of Electro-Communications and NEOARK Corporation have
IMAGE: This is a representation of the tapered fiber able to detecting simultaneously optical signals from different neurons. view more Credit: Antonio Balena (IIT) Researchers from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and University of Salento, both in Lecce, Italy, and Harvard Medical School in Boston have developed a new light-based method to capture and pinpoint the
At the end of Roman Polanski’s 1974 detective noir classic Chinatown, Jake Gittes played by Jack Nicholson, is told to “forget it.” There is an unspoken understanding based on experience and history. Netflix is getting ready to fill us in on the story. Original Chinatown writer Robert Towne and director David Fincher are collaborating on
This article contains Watchmen spoilers. Since early in its first episode, HBO’s Watchmen has kept the catastrophic tragedy that concludes the book just within view of the audience. The events of Nov. 2, 1985, when New York City was seemingly attacked by an enormous squid from another dimention that emitted a psychic shockwave so powerful
It’s been 12 years since the last Half-Life game was released in 2007, and just when fans of the iconic franchise seemed to have lost all hope that Valve would ever continue the series, the company took to Twitter to announce a new installment. Half-Life: Alyx has been revealed as the studio’s “flagship” virtual reality
IMAGE: UMass Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements, right, after the ceremony in Denmark, where he received the Nils Foss Excellence Prize; with Qian Janice Wang of Aarhus (Denmark) University, who… view more Credit: FOSS University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements was honored Monday in Hillerød, Denmark, with the 2019 Nils Foss Excellence
IMAGE: Aaron Becker, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston, is leading a project to use swarms of tiny robots to break up blood clots. view more Credit: University of Houston Pulmonary embolism causes between 200,000 and 300, 000 deaths in the United States every year, according to the National Institutes
Marvel’s Runaways Season 3 is a go! Hulu has renewed the TV show based on the classic comic book run by Brian Vaughan for a third season. That’s the good news. The bad news? It’s the final season of the show. Hulu revealed the news with the new trailer (which you can find below), making Runaways the latest
This His Dark Materials Episode 3 review contains spoilers. It originally appeared on Den of Geek UK. His Dark Materials Episode 3 In material terms, His Dark Materials Episode 3 didn’t move us very far forward. Like a docked boat, Lyra’s journey stalled in one place while other characters were frustrated in their various searches. By
With a rebel yell, the Hearthstone fanbase has spent much of the game’s lifespan crying “more, more, more.” “More,” might sound like a pretty standard request in the age of constant content and updates, but Hearthstone has long been a special case. There was a time when Hearthstone only saw a few notable updates a
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically-thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and compact electronic devices. By using specially-treated silicon surfaces to tailor the crystals’ size and shape, the researchers have found a potentially faster and less expensive way to produce next-generation semiconductor crystals for
IMAGE: Tunable chemotaxis of enzyme-coated protocells could lead to precision drug deliver. Illustration of protocells, called liposomes, that have enzymes (green) attached to their external surface moving through a microfluidic device…. view more Credit: Ambika Somasundar, Penn State Synthetic protocells can be made to move toward and away from chemical signals, an important step for the
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 18, 2019–A scientific team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University has made the first experimental observation of a material phase that had been predicted but never seen. The newly discovered phase couples with a known phase to enable unique control over material properties–an advance that
Dr Tony Shien-Ping Feng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and his team invented a Direct Thermal Charging Cell (DTCC) which can effectively convert heat to electricity, creating a huge potential to reduce greenhouse effects by capturing exhaust heat and cutting down primary energy wastage. The new invention