You see them all over city streets: pedestrians wearing headphones or earbuds – their faces glued to their phones as they stroll along oblivious to their surroundings. Known as “twalking,” the behavior is not without its dangers. Headphone-wearing pedestrians often can’t hear the auditory cues – horns, shouts, or the sound of approaching cars –
Month: December 2019
IMAGE: An illustration shows a battery’s cathode undergoing phase transition from iron phosphate (FP) to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) during charging. Simulations by Rice University scientists showed that adding defects –… view more Credit: Kaiqi Yang/Rice University HOUSTON – (Dec. 9, 2019) – Here’s a case where detours speed up traffic. The result may be better
IMAGE: Upon stimulation, two photons emerge from the quantum dot giving detailed information about the dynamics of the excited charges within the Quantum Dot (QD) view more Credit: ICFO The ability to investigate the dynamics of single particle at the nano-scale and femtosecond level remained an unfathomed dream for years. It was not until the dawn
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have demonstrated the possibility of detecting Abrikosov vortices penetrating through a superconductor-ferromagnet interface. The device considered in their study, published in Scientific Reports, is a ferromagnetic nanowire with superconductive
IMAGE: Assistant Professor Eun Ji Chung, USC’s Dr. Karl Jacob Jr. and Karl Jacob III Early-Career Chair view more Credit: USC Viterbi School of Engineering Heart disease and stroke are the world’s two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of
IMAGE: The use of gold, silver and gold-silver alloy nanoparticles allowed high-speed/high-precision multicolor imaging for the first time. view more Credit: Ryota Iino, Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan. For the first time, researchers can track biological molecules with unprecedented speed and precision thanks to the use of multi-metallic nanoparticles. The researchers
The first chapter of Crisis on Infinite Earths introduced a variety of new parallel Earths to the DC Universe. Most Arrowverse action takes place on Earth-1 (home of Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow), with a significant portion also taking place on Earth-38 (home of Supergirl). Over the years we’ve been introduced to other
I think I’m going to miss these Year of the Villain one-shots. Usually, event tie-in one-offs are forgettable at best, and openly infuriating at worst, but the hit rate on these Year of the Villain books has been really good! The latest success from the line is Year of the Villain: Ocean Master. Orm Marius has
Netflix’s The Witcher is conjuring a live-action manifestation of the popular fantasy novel series of Andrzej Sapkowski, which, of course, spawned the popular video game series. Notably, it also marks a monumental turn for its star, Henry Cavill, who has permanently put away his Superman suit, and shaved that pesky Mission: Impossible – Fallout mustache, for
IMAGE: Around billions of nanodisks deposited onto area of 1 cm2. Each one of them reacts to the incident light and creates plasmons. view more Credit: Illustration: Conceptualized Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting polymer. The antennas can be switched
IMAGE: Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a climate change research initiative to fundamentally change how the world uses hydrocarbons. Carbon Hub’s goal is a zero-emissions future in which hydrocarbons are… view more Credit: Photo by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON — (Dec. 9, 2019) — Rice University has launched Carbon Hub, a major research initiative to
A research team in the Department of Electrical and EIIRIS at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a donut-shaped kirigami device for EMG recordings. The proposed device reduces device displacement on a large deformable muscle surface. Accurate and robust EMG recordings offer EMG signal-based human-machine interfaces that allow prosthesis control for amputees. The results of
This article contains Supergirl and Crisis on Infinite Earths spoilers. Well, it’s finally here. Crisis on Infinite Earths kicked off with a tremendous, ridiculously ambitious hour of television. “Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One” is the Supergirl chapter of this year’s Arrowverse crossover, so naturally it put a lot of focus on what was happening
The Boys unleashed an unapologetically ultraviolent response to the entertainment industry’s seemingly interminable array of live-action superhero fare with a TV series created by Supernatural and Timeless‘s Eric Kripke, adapting the bleak comic book series from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The result was a serial offering that’s said to be one of the most-watched
Violent delights may have violent ends, but Westworld’s enticements are in no danger of being cut off from their source, even after an aborted robo-apocalypse in the park of dreams turned it into a nightmare. Which is happy news for us, cowboy. Westworld Season 3 was confirmed early during the second season’s run. And we’re
The Locke & Key TV series project has had a rough time, but its troubles finally appear to be over, thanks to Netflix. Back in July 2016, THR revealed that Hulu had given the show adaptation of writer Joe Hill’s IDW horror comic book series a pilot order, with Carlton Cuse (Lost) set to serve
This Steven Universe Future review contains spoilers. Steven Universe Future Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 Review Steven Universe always finds a way to give you what you never knew you needed. At the end of Steven Universe: The Movie it felt like we had come to a fairly satisfactory ending. Steven realized that all his problems wouldn’t be
With one magic word, Shazam has become one of the greatest superheroes in history. Billy Batson was imbued with the power of the wizard Shazam when he spoke that one magic word, Shazam! A fierce lightning strike would transform Billy into the World’s Mightiest Mortal. He first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (1939) and was
In what should not come as a surprise to anyone, Sony has indicated they are no longer interested in producing handheld gaming devices. “PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great, but clearly it’s a business that we’re no longer in now,” said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of
This Power Rangers Beast Morphers review contains spoilers. Power Rangers Beast Morphers Episode 21 While last weeks Beast Morphers’ showed off all the season’s strengths, this episode sadly shined a spotlight on all the weaknesses. The biggest issue in Beast Morphers has been its villains. On the surface Blaze and Roxy could have been two of the
Stephen King’s novel The Outsider is becoming a drama series at HBO, which has given the adaptation a 10-episode order. The story of The Outsider puts a mind-blowingly monstrous twist on traditional murder fiction. Here, police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) fields an investigation in the fictional Oklahoma town of Flint City that upends the local populace when a
Developer Red Barrels is working on a new Outlast game called The Outlast Trials. “Whilst not a direct sequel to the other critically acclaimed Outlast titles in the series, The Outlast Trials will be set in the same thrilling universe: more precisely, right in the middle of the Cold War era,” Red Barrels says of
This Van Helsing review contains spoilers. Van Helsing Season 4 Episode 11 “You pathetic old hags.” It’s reasonable to think the revelation of a relatively intact United States government and military might be the most compelling reveal to emerge from the latest episode of Van Helsing. Nope. “All Apologies” throws a little shapeshifting into the
This Batman article contains spoilers. Tom King is all about reflections. He’s the most prominent formalist working in superhero comics today. For him, “how” tells as much of the story as “why” or “what.” So it’s natural that Alfred’s death in his last story arc on Batman proper is a way for King to examine
The PC has been a staple of the video game industry for decades. Consoles come and go, talk of new generations pop-up every handful of years, and companies continue to try to get in on the nostalgic classic console scene, but the one constant that remains is that you’ll never be able to experience the
IMAGE: A sample of the novel homogeneous polymer gel. view more Credit: Image: © 2019 Li et al. Gel-like materials have a wide range of applications, especially in chemistry and medicine. However, their usefulness is sometimes limited by their inherent random and disordered nature. Researchers from the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Solid State Physics have
Bram Stoker’s Dracula was not an instant hit in 1897 when it was first published, despite positive reviews. But the figure of the vampire himself has since become a cultural figure with a status few others have achieved. Consequently, there have been an enormous amount of stage and screen adaptations of the Dracula novel, or featuring
With His Dark Materials currently making waves on HBO, we’re taking the time to look back at what went wrong the last time someone tried to adapt Philip Pullman’s beloved trilogy of fantasy novels to the screen in the 2007 flop The Golden Compass. Pullman’s His Dark Materials was much praised for its rich, imaginative fantasy
The internet has revealed a brand new look at a canceled Spider-Man 4 game, which would have tied in with Sam Raimi’s movie sequel of the same name (which also got cancelled, of course). A decent chunk of footage from the binned spinoff game has arrived online thanks to a YouTube channel called Hard4Games. This
IMAGE: A photoresponsive chiral catalyst based on an oligotriazole-functionalized unidirectional molecular motor has been developed for stereodivergent anion binding catalysis. The motor function controls the helical chirality of supramolecular assemblies with… view more Credit: R. Dorel / University of Groningen Many organic molecules are chiral, which means that they are non-superimposable on their mirror image. Those
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