No matter what they’re into – be it horror, sci-fi and Bond or Marvel, cartoons and comic books – geeks of the world are united by their unquenchable thirst to know absolutely everything about the objects of their affection – and then prove it! Vintage Geek by longtime Den of Geek friend Marshall Julius is
Month: December 2019
This article is sponsored by 1939 Games. World War II has served as the historical setting for countless video games over the years. Most of these games have been first-person shooters that put you smack-dab in the middle of the battlefield. But 1939 Games’ free-to-play KARDS takes a more unique approach to WWII, infusing classic
Safe nuclear waste storage, new ways of generating and storing hydrogen, and technologies for capturing and reusing greenhouse gases are all potential spinoffs of a new study by University of Guelph researchers. Published recently in Nature Scientific Reports, the study involved the first-ever use of antimatter to investigate processes connected to potential long-term storage of
IMAGE: At left, natural diamonds glow under ultraviolet light owing to their various nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. At right, a schematic depicting the diamond anvils in action, with NV centers in the… view more Credit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab; Ella Marushchenko Since their invention more than 60 years ago, diamond anvil cells have made it possible for scientists
IMAGE: An illustration shows how motorized nanomachines triggered by light drill into bacteria, making a path for antibiotics. Experiments showed the bacteria became susceptible again to the antibiotic meropenem, to which… view more Credit: Don Thushara Galbadage/Biola University HOUSTON – (Dec. 12, 2019) – Molecular drills have gained the ability to target and destroy deadly bacteria
IMAGE: Fold your own nanocube! Although the nanocubes used in the research project build themselves, you can fold your own using this model. Each yellow X represents locations where researchers at… view more Credit: Image by Shuichi Hiraoka, CC-BY-ND The process of building a tiny cube has revealed some of the fundamental mysteries of how molecules
This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 3 “Together we will make Kattegat one of the greatest cities in the world.” “Ghosts, Gods, and Running Dogs” features at least four active plot threads as Vikings looks to ramp up its sixth and final season. Unfortunately, few garner much interest, and the follow up
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two cousins who create a comic book superhero during World War II, is coming to Showtime! According to Variety, the series commitment is part of a larger, multi-year deal Chabon and his producing partner Ayelet Waldman, have signed with CBS TV. Chabon is
One of the Switch’s most amusing games, Golf Story, is getting a well-deserved sequel called Sports Story. Sports Story will utilize the same basic gameplay formula used in Golf Story. In case you’re not familiar with that game, that means it will see you create a character who must work their way through a sports
Berkeley — If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it’s a good insulator because heat energy has a hard time moving through empty space. Vibrations of atoms or molecules, which carry thermal energy, simply can’t travel if there are no atoms or molecules around. But a new
All good things… must come to an end. Such is the case with Michael Chabon’s role as the showrunner of Star Trek: Picard. But for a good reason! Following the first season of Star Trek: Picard, Chabon will transition out of the showrunner role on that show to showrun a different TV series for CBS
When it comes to Ghostbusters lore, if you were to ask about their biggest villains, the list would begin with the likes of Stay Puft/Gozer, Slimer, and Vigo the Carpathian. Then maybe some of the more memorable monsters from the cartoon or someone might bring up that incel guy from the reboot. But then there’s
The Game Awards 2019 will kick off a special event known as The Game Festival that allows gamers across the globe to play some sneak peeks at upcoming titles. “The Game Festival is a first-of-its-kind digital consumer event that brings the magic of hands-on gameplay demos to fans around the world,” reads a press release confirming
CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better way to scrub carbon dioxide from smokestack emissions, which could be a key to mitigating global climate change. Published today in Nature, the findings are important because atmospheric CO2 has increased 40 percent since the dawn of
IMAGE: This is an artistic illustration of nonclassical effects in nanoscale electromagnetism. When the confinement of electromagnetic fields in nanostructures becomes comparable to the electronic length scales in materials, the associated… view more Credit: Marin Soljači Research Group More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk Maxwell’s “A Dynamical
A pioneering cloud and global gateway for nanotechnology research and education has received a National Science Foundation grant renewal, completing its 20-year mission while looking to the future to create new technologies. The cloud, known as nanoHUB, was developed through the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) as a virtual society that shares simulation software, data,
IMAGE: The Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society, has selected 58 computing innovators as ACM Fellows. view more Credit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 58 members ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, combating cybercrime, quantum computing and wireless networking. The accomplishments
IMAGE: Sussex researcher holding a self-adhering medical patch made from scalably printed graphene layer on rubber. view more Credit: Daniel O’Driscoll Newborn babies, elderly people, sick hospital patients and sports enthusiasts all stand to gain from a breakthrough in the development of wearable technology using nanomaterials from the University of Sussex. Physicist Dr Conor Boland at
This The Flash review contains spoilers. The Flash Season 6 Episode 9 Well. Here we are. “Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three” is the big one. It’s THE episode we’ve been waiting for since the very first episode of The Flash. The one we knew that Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and friends always wanted to
One of the subtle joys of Legends of Tomorrow (a show famous for its subtlety) is how when watching the actors inhabit their characters, it seems like everyone is good friends and enjoying everyone else’s company. The same is true for the rest of the Arrowverse – these casts have been working together for years.
The Game Awards is the video game industry’s biggest celebration of the year, honoring the latest and greatest in gaming. The 2019 ceremony is only a few days away and the nominees for this year’s many awards have been announced. The 2019 Game of the Year nominees are Control, Death Stranding, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Resident Evil
There are a lot of mysteries to unravel in NBC’s hit drama, Manifest. From those who wonder about the five-year time jump of Flight 828 the flight that experienced moments of turbulence while the world fast forwarded, to those who speculate about the nature of the so-called “callings” that suddenly allow those same passengers to
This article contains Crisis on Infinite Earths spoilers. “Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Two” introduced us to the Superman of Earth-96, played by Brandon Routh. This Clark Kent is a little older and wiser, having suffered an unimaginable loss. He’s now the Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Planet, displaying the same fondness for brown suits that
The PC gaming scene has long been known as the home of some of the most innovative and original gaming experiences in the world. The best PC games of 2019 justified that reputation. Due to a relative lack of high-profile releases, many of the best PC games of 2019 came from indie developers and other
IMAGE: Ultrafast pulses of extreme ultraviolet light are created in a gas jet of white plasma, and are visible as blue dots on a phosphor screen as well as yellow beams… view more Credit: Research to Reality For the first time, researchers have been able to record, frame-by-frame, how an electron interacts with certain atomic vibrations
IMAGE: Comparison of the drag coefficient between the experimental measurement and computational analysis. Variation in the deflection angle of the bristled wing with the airflow velocities of 0.7, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1… view more Credit: Yonggang Jiang/Beihang University WASHINGTON, D.C., December 10, 2019 – Thrips are tiny insects 2 millimeters long, about as long as four human
Depending on the shape and orientation of their edges, graphene nanostructures (also known as nanographenes) can have very different properties – for example, they may ex-hibit conducting, semiconducting or insulating behavior. However, one property has so far been elusive: magnetism. Together with colleagues from the Technical University in Dresden, Aalto University in Finland, Max Planck
This article contains Batwoman and Crisis on Infinite Earths spoilers. Crisis on Infinite Earths has been more than just a crossover for the assorted superhero series currently running on The CW; it has been a crossover event for many of the DC screen adaptations that have come before. In “Part Two,” we get to catch up with Smallville‘s Clark Kent
The Expanded Universe has been a part of Star Wars for almost as long as the movies have, starting with Alan Dean Foster’s novel Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, which was published in 1978 and was originally conceived as a low-budget continuation of A New Hope had the movie flopped. But Foster’s Luke and Leia
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 to do your Christmas or holiday shopping? Who needs that? Tired of leftovers (and hangovers) from your office holiday parties? Ease your pain with some retail therapy! The
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