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.
Month: November 2019
This Doctor Who article originally appeared on Den of Geek UK. Doctor Who contradicts itself. It contains multitudes. Thus, not everyone likes it for the same reasons, and one of the best examples of this is “The Moonbase.” Broadcast in February – March 1967, this is the fourth story to feature Patrick Troughton in the
With The Mandalorian exploring a lawless corner of the galaxy far, far away, bounty hunters — the scum of the galaxy — are now at the forefront of the Star Wars universe. Certainly, it’s been a long time for fans of the most famous bounty hunter of all, Boba Fett. But, as the famous scene
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: 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
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
A galaxy far, far away is about to become a lot closer. One of the chief benefits of Disney launching their own streaming service in Disney+, is that a lot of their premier franchises will all soon share the same home. The Star Wars and Lucasfilm collection is one of the series that will benefit
It’s been five issues since the biggest death in Batman comics history — bigger even than when fans voted to kill off Jason Todd — but we’re only just now getting around to the comics universe processing what happened. And in February, Batman gets to process it too. This coming February, Pennyworth R.I.P. celebrates the
In what is hardly a surprise, it was confirmed some time ago that Homeland Season 8 will be the final year of espionage with Carrie, Saul, and the whole CIA gang. Showtime president David Nevins confirmed it again at TCA, saying this was executive producer Alex Gansa and Claire Danes’ call, who said they definitely wanted season
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
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
In an interview with director Jon Favreau, a question about George Lucas’ pioneering special effects turned into a description of The Mandalorian’s ethos. According to Favreau, the first live-action Star Wars television show will look like “not just the first film but the first act of the first film.” Going back to the source had been
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
God of War director Cory Barlog has seemingly been using his Twitter account to tease some kind of sci-fi project. This is all a bit strange, but a quick look at Barlog’s Twitter account reveals that he has changed his photo to a picture of the Voyager 1 space satellite, has sent out a strange tweet
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
It’s not surprising that many people are thinking about adding Disney+ to their list of streaming services they’ll be subscribing to; after all, the new outlet has everything Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars related both new and old. But when making budget considerations, there are certain deals consumers should be aware of before they sign
The Expanse has been one of the most popular topics over the years on our long-running genre television podcast, Sci Fi Fidelity. Going back to our first discussion of the show in season 1 as well as our interviews with showrunner Naren Shankar and lead actor Dominique Tipper, we’ve always been fans of the show
It looks like Hideo Kojima convinced quite a few former Konami employees to help him work on Death Stranding. Death Stranding‘s credits confirm that about 67 of roughly 120 members of the main Death Stranding team previously worked on the Metal Gear Solid series. Of those 67, it seems that 62 worked on Metal Gear
Everyone loves at least one Christmas movies. Even the Grinches and Scrooges among us can’t deny that there is at least one flick out there that can inspire the spirit of the season within them. further reading: Christmas Movies: A Complete Holiday Streaming Guide In order to find it, however, you’re going to have to
This interview with Ferrett Steinmetz was part of my research for “Are You Afraid of the Darkness: A Guide to Hopepunk,” a feature written for Den of Geek’s New York Comic Con print magazine that delved into the hopepunk term. I recommend beginning with that article before diving into this full interview transcript. Den of Geek: When
That’s No Moon Although ultimately viewed as a financial low-point for Nintendo, the GameCube era gave us some of the best games ever made: Luigi’s Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. One of its best, a launch title that wasn’t an in-house Nintendo
It all started with a simple joke. In Rick and Morty season 3 premiere, “The Rickshank Redemption,” Rick Sanchez used his time traveling privileges to travel back to an era that was very important to him and to Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland. That, of course, was the time that McDonalds had a special
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