Servant marks M. Night Shyamalan’s return to television, a medium in which he last endured the 2016 cancellation of his secretly-post-apocalyptic Fox television series, Wayward Pines, after two seasons. However, Shyamalan didn’t have to wait long for his television hopes to rebound, since he subsequently closed a deal with Apple, which will provide his new
Joshua Williamson’s The Flash is all coming to a head, 80+ issues in, and DC announced another big milestone for the Scarlet Speedster coming up in his run. This one is the celebration of 750 issues of Flash comics, coming in February. The Flash #750 launches a new story arc in Williamson’s run: “The Flash Age.” Williamson pens
Hideo Kojima‘s strange Death Stranding and the creepiness of deepfake videos have come together for a double dose of weirdness: a YouTube channel called iFake has edited the Death Stranding trailer so that the game’s director, Kojima himself, appears to be playing every role. It is, in its own way, a beautiful thing to behold. The
IMAGE: Transparent conductor view more Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Laboratory of Nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials (CPQM) have rationally designed a novel p-type flexible transparent conductor using single-walled carbon nanotubes. This opens new avenues for its applications in next generation opto-electronics and energy
Chemotherapy has been the backbone of cancer treatment for decades, but it is notorious for its toxicity to healthy cells, severe side effects, and poor targeting of the intended tumors. Efforts to improve chemotherapy’s efficacy and tolerability include packaging drugs into nanoparticles, which can protect them from degradation in the body, control their release pattern,
This Castle Rock review contains spoilers. Castle Rock Season 2 Episode 6 Castle Rock season 2 shows no signs of slowing down after last week’s season-defining Annie Wilkes origin story. “The Mother” not only delivers a big payoff after last week’s big cliffhanger, but also digs deeper into whatever the hell is going on at the
This His Dark Materials article contains spoilers through Episode 2. You can check out our His Dark Materials spoiler-free review here. His Dark Materials is a fantasy novel and now TV show set in another world, which gives its setting a slightly out-of-time, or even period, quality. However, as we learn from “The Idea of the North,” the
This article is sponsored by Splitmedialabs. Download XSplit Gamecaster V4 here. What’s better than playing great games? Playing them with friends. But not just the small group of acquaintances you can fit in your living room. We’re talking about experiencing a great game with hundreds of your “friends” online through the magic of live streaming
HOUSTON – (Nov. 13, 2019) – A lightweight material full of holes is nearly as hard as diamond. The mere dents left by speeding bullets prove it. Researchers at Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering and their colleagues are testing polymers based on tubulanes, theoretical structures of crosslinked carbon nanotubes predicted to have extraordinary strength.
IMAGE: Examples from the three-dimensional printed nanoworld show the complexity (a), the achievable structure sizes (b) as well as the path from meshed towards closed 3D surfaces (c). All images are… view more Credit: © Harald Plank, Institute of Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis at TU Graz In the nanometer range, complex, free-standing 3D architectures are very
IMAGE: A new stretchable semiconductor, illustrated here, consists of acid-degradable semiconductor fibers (green) embedded within a rubbery, biodegradable polymer. view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b00850 To seamlessly integrate electronics with the natural world, materials are needed that are both stretchable and degradable — for example, flexible medical devices that conform to
This The Purge review contains spoilers. The Purge Season 2 Episode 5 The concept of Purge tourism has always been an interesting idea, and one that hasn’t nearly been touched on enough in the Purge media universe. There was talk of Purge tourism, but there are nuts-and-bolts concerns that are addressed in this week’s cold
This article contains Watchmen spoilers. HBO’s Watchmen is the best kind of prestige revival – one that doesn’t try to recreate the success of the original property, but which, instead, builds on its legacy in new and interesting ways. In doing so, the series must also confront the failings of that original, of which Watchmen
Today (November 12) Disney makes media and entertainment history by launching Disney+, the company’s long-awaited and highly-anticipated streaming service. The subscription video-on-demand will offer hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of film and TV content from the vast, combined libraries of Disney, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Marvel, 20th Century Fox, complemented by the Disney-owned services of Hulu
This His Dark Materials article contains spoilers through Episode 2. “I feel like Mrs Coulter is a bit of a control freak,” says Ruth Wilson on stage at the London premiere of His Dark Materials. “She needs to be in control, and that’s in her look as much as everything else.” Mrs. Coulter’s look in the
IMAGE: Physicist Dr. Gregor Hlawacek coordinates the experiments at the helium-ion microsope of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR). view more Credit: HZDR / A. Wirsig In collaboration with colleagues from the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW) and the University of Glasgow, physicists from the German research center Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are working
IMAGE: The scheme of the experiment – circular polarization of light (marked in red and blue) transmitted through a cavity filled with liquid crystal depending on the direction of propagation. (Source:… view more Credit: Source: M. Krol, UW Physics An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system – a
IMAGE: This is the crystal structure of Pyrite OsSe2/OsTe2. view more Credit: FLEET A Monash University study revealing new spin textures in pyrite could unlock these materials’ potential in future spintronics devices. The study of pyrite-type materials provides new insights and opportunities for selective spin control in topological spintronics devices. Seeking new spin in topological materials
This His Dark Materials review contains spoilers. His Dark Materials Episode 2 Cruella de Vil, the White Witch, the Wicked Queen, Nurse Ratched, meet your new sister in villainy: Mrs Marisa Coulter. Chic, gleaming and morally reprehensible, she could out-evil the lot of you six ways from Sunday and ladies, She. Has. Arrived. Establishing Mrs Coulter
This article contains spoilers for Watchmen episode 3 and the book. Watchmen episode 3, “She was Killed by Space Junk,” introduces two major characters from the original book in the form of Jean Smart’s FBI Agent Laurie Blake (formerly known as Laurie Juspeczyk, the Silk Spectre) and Jeremy Irons’ Adrian Veidt (formerly known as the
Titans Season 3 is a go! DC Universe and Warner Bros. Television have renewed Titans for a third season, before Season 2 has even finished airing on the subscription streaming service. The original live-action superhero show premiered in 2018, as one of the first original offerings from DC Universe. It follows Dick Grayson, Rachel Roth aka
The most impressive thing about what Joshua Williamson and his creative collaborators have pulled off in The Flash is making one continuous four year run feel like one long story. We’re about to be 82 issues plus several annuals in, and the last few issues have been notable in how they’re pulling together threads from far
In an interview with TGCom, Hideo Kojima offered an…interesting theory regarding why some American critics may have been harsher on Death Stranding. “I must say that the game received rave reviews, especially in Europe and Japan,” Kojima says. “Here in the United States, however, we have had stronger criticisms. Perhaps it is a difficult game
IMAGE: Some of the researchers behind the breakthrough: Peter Andersson Ersman, RISE, Simone Fabiano, LiU, Jan Strandberg and Roman Lassnig, RISE. view more Credit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping University and RISE, Campus Norrköping, have shown for the first time that it is possible to print complete integrated circuits with more than 100 organic electrochemical transistors.
IMAGE: A schematic image of magnetic tunnel junction constructed of ferroelectric material sandwiched by magnetic metal layers. Interface of each electric polarization direction are shown enlarged in right-hand side. The diagram… view more Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan–The ability to control the magnetic properties of a material using electricity is important for the development of computer
The EU-funded research project SPRING (SPin Research IN Graphene) has celebrated its kickoff meeting on Nov. 7-8, 2019 in Donostia/San Sebastián (Spain). The meeting marks the starting point of a 4-year research project that is coordinated by CIC nanoGUNE and integrates IBM Research, Donostia International Physics Center, and University of Santiago de Compostela, Technical University
IMAGE: This unique biosensing platform consists of an array of ultrathin graphene layers and gold nanostructures. The platform, combined with high-tech imaging (Raman spectroscopy), detects genetic material (RNA) and characterizes different… view more Credit: Letao Yang, KiBum Lee, Jin-Ho Lee and Sy-Tsong (Dean) Chueng A Rutgers-led team has created better biosensor technology that may help lead
The following contains spoiler for Rick and Morty season 4 episode 1. Death is simply not that big a deal in Rick and Morty. Young Morty Smith (whose name happens to include the Latin base for “death”) learned to confront his mortality early on when he and Rick jumped into an alternate universe where their
This article contains Watchmen episode 4 spoilers. HBO’s Watchmen did most of its comic book referencing, additional worldbuilding, and character introductions in its first three episodes. So you would think that by the time we got to Watchmen episode 4, they’d be done mining the book for little flourishes of backstory to reference or use
Release Date: Nov. 5, 2019Platforms: SwitchDeveloper: SegaPublisher: SegaGenre: Sports Once again, iconic characters from Nintendo and Sega franchises are coming together to provide us with minigames based on real-life sports. Yep, the time has come to review Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The game, as you’d expect, is stuffed to the