Month: January 2020

Researchers have developed an ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material that could be printed and rolled out like newspaper, for the touchscreens of the future. The touch-responsive technology is 100 times thinner than existing touchscreen materials and so pliable it can be rolled up like a tube. To create the new conductive sheet, an RMIT University-led
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Den of Geek is hosting this giveaway in partnership with Tor Books. V.E. Schwab is one of our favorite authors here at Den of Geek. From the Shades of Magic series to spooky middle grade read City of Ghosts to her “In Search of Doors” speech delivered at the J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, we’re really just big Schwab fans. We’re particularly excited
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IMAGE: Researchers in ORNL’s Quantum Information Science group summarized their significant contributions to quantum networking and quantum computing in a special issue of Optics & Photonics News. view more  Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has conducted a series of experiments to
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IMAGE: A simple, modular chemical approach could produce over 65,000 different types of complex nanorods. Electron microscope images are shown for 32 of these nanorods, which form with various combinations of… view more  Credit: Schaak Laboratory, Penn State Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that could produce over
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Sepsis claims one life every four seconds. It is the primary cause of death in hospitals, and one of the ten leading causes of death worldwide. Sepsis is associated with the body’s inflammatory response to a bacterial infection and progresses extremely rapidly: every hour that goes by before it is properly diagnosed and treated increases
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Chad Mirkin, director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2020 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, which is presented by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to a scientist or public servant who has contributed significantly to the advancement of science in the United States. “Uniquely, Chad
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IMAGE: Comparison of Wannier functions resulting from different minimization schemes in gallium arsenide (larger pink spheres are Ga cation atoms and yellow spheres are As anions). view more  Credit: Valerio Vitale @Imperial College London Wannier functions were first introduced by Gregory Wannier in 1937 as an alternative way of describing the electronic ground state of periodic
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This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 8 “You aren’t fit to be called a son of Ragnar.” With the death of Lagertha, attention now turns toward Bjorn Ironside, and Vikings appears ready to step up the pace of Ivar’s story in Rus and finally return to Floki’s settlement in Iceland. “Valhalla Can
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During the same Reddit AMA that confirmed Half-Life: Alyx will feature some horror elements, at least one fan couldn’t help but point out that it all seemed a bit strange that Valve is not only making a new Half-Life game but actually talking to the community about it. Surprisingly, Valve addressed that comment. “Half-Life isn’t
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Human skin is a fascinating and multifunctional organ with unique properties originating from its flexible and compliant nature. It allows for interfacing with external physical environment through numerous receptors interconnected with the nervous system. Scientists have been trying to transfer these features to artificial skin for a long time, aiming at robotic applications. Operation of
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IMAGE: Uniformly parking kinesin proteins allows researchers to observe how they work together to transport microtubules. view more  Credit: Science Graphics Japan — Any kind of body movement both big and small, from the muscles in your arms to the neurons transporting those signals to your brain, rely on a massive collection of proteins we call
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Fifty years ago, scientists hit upon what they thought could be the next rocket fuel. Carboranes — molecules composed of boron, carbon and hydrogen atoms clustered together in three-dimensional shapes — were seen as the possible basis for next-generation propellants due to their ability to release massive amounts of energy when burned. It was technology
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Screenwriter, director, and author Terry Jones, a founding member of Monty Python, died at the age of 77, according to Variety. He had been suffering from frontotemporal dementia, which his son Bill revealed publicly in September 2016. The disease left the comedian unable to speak. “Over the past few days his wife, children, extended family
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DMZ, the cynically-prophesizing DC Comics-published Vertigo title depicting a United States left literally divided after a second Civil War, is the next comic book-inspired small screen project embraced by HBO. Indeed, the premium cable channel has brought in a prominent name in Ava DuVernay – who happens to have her hands full with DC film
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Researchers have discovered a method to control biomolecular machines over a wide temperature range using deep-sea osmolyte trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). This finding could open a new dimension in the application of artificial machines fabricated from biomolecular motors and other proteins. Biomolecular motors are the smallest natural machines that keep living organisms dynamic. They can generate
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IMAGE: Conversion (doubling) of light frequency using a nanoresonator view more  Credit: Credit: (left) Anastasia Shalaeva; (right) Koshelev et al. Science An international team of researchers from ITMO University, the Australian National University, and Korea University have experimentally trapped an electromagnetic wave in a gallium arsenide nanoresonator a few hundred nanometers in size for a record-breaking
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This Arrow review contains spoilers.  Arrow Season 8 Episode 9 “Green Arrow & the Canaries” pulls off something pretty impressive in just an hour, managing to answer many questions about how the Crisis on Infinite Earths affected Arrow’s corner of the Arrowverse while the backdoor pilot gave the audience a sense of what the new show’s vibe
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Maxime Beland, the creative director of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Splinter Cell: Blacklist, has returned to Ubisoft.  Reports indicate that Beland has returned to Ubisoft as a member of a creative team within the studio that will seemingly preside over the creative process of all upcoming games. It’s not clear at this time what the
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Rapid progress in the field of metallic nanotechnology is sparking a science revolution that is likely to impact all areas of society, according to professor of physics Ventsislav Valev and his team at the University of Bath in the UK. Metallic nanotechnology is an area that allows microscopic particles of metals, such as gold and
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QLED screens have been on the market for a few years now. They are known for their bright, intense colours, which are produced using what is known as quantum dot technology: QLED stands for quantum dot light emitting diode. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a technology that increases the energy efficiency of QLEDs.
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IMAGE: Rice University postdoctoral fellow Anulekha Haridas holds a full-cell lithium-ion battery built to test the effect of an alumina coating on the cathode. The nanoscale coating protects cathodes from degrading…. view more  Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON – (Jan. 21, 2020) – The process of developing better rechargeable batteries may be cloudy, but there’s an
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IMAGE: Figure showing streamlines of flow in the lubricant during sliding of a rigid indenter on a soft substrate visualized by tracking of fluorescent particles in the fluid, as discussed in… view more  Credit: Lehigh University Anand Jagota, professor and founding chair of Lehigh University’s bioengineering department, has arrived at a milestone in his 15 years
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