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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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