COLUMBUS, Ohio – Researchers have developed a way to prop up a struggling immune system to enable its fight against sepsis, a deadly condition resulting from the body’s extreme reaction to infection. The scientists used nanotechnology to transform donated healthy immune cells into a drug with enhanced power to kill bacteria. In experiments treating mice
Month: January 2020
AMES, Iowa – Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures. As the researchers reported in the journal Science, that matters because, “Pressure alters the physical, chemical and electronic properties of matter.” Understanding those changes could lead to new materials or new
This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 31 Episode 11 The Simpsons, season 31, episode 11, “Hail to the Teeth,” turns Lisa’s frown upside down, Arty Ziff’s bride inside out and teaches a valuable lesson. We should smile, whether our teeth are aching or our ideals are breaking, because when the world smiles with you, it also
Doctor Strange and Pink Floyd both got their start during the 1960s, a decade known for mind-expansion, psychedelic experimentation, and the pushing of cultural and artistic boundaries. Neither were exactly in step with the rest of their genre. Doctor Strange, unlike his spandex clad and heavily muscled contemporaries, used occult practices like black magic and
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Institute for High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have used computer modeling to refine the melting curve of graphite that has been studied for over 100 years, with inconsistent findings. They also found that graphene “melting” is in fact sublimation. The
HBO will not be foisting Larry David on any other network. Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 10 if officially happening. The announcement came in a surprisingly painless fashion and much quicker than Curb Your Enthusiasm is accustomed to (though it was nearly two years ago, December 2017, at this point). Larry David tends to like to make the
This Dracula review contains spoilers. It originally appeared on Den of Geek UK. Dracula Episode 1 With a personal brand that stretches across all of culture, the who, what, when and where of Count Dracula are well known. He’s a centuries-old nobleman in a Transylvanian castle who vants to suck your blooood. The novel question
This Dracula review contains spoilers. It originally appeared on Den of Geek UK. Dracula Episode 3 If Dracula hadn’t ended his own life, I might have done it for him. Anything to get off this finale’s spinning carousel of orphaned plot threads, hand-wavy explanations and charmless characters. After a supremely entertaining start and a boldly reinvented middle, Dracula screamed
Hunters, an upcoming thriller series from Amazon, already has two undeniably good things going for it: An executive producer in Jordan Peele and a star in Al Pacino. Get Out and Us director Peele executive-produces Hunters, which is described as a “vengeance-driven Nazi hunting series,” set to arrive on Amazon Prime Video with a 10-episode
Dracula is creeping his shadow onto the peak television scene once again. The new miniseries comes from former Doctor Who mastermind, Steven Moffat, and his co-creator on Sherlock, Mark Gatiss, for a new TV version of Bram Stoker’s iconic tome, Dracula, are about to come to fruition. The Girl in the Spider’s Web‘s Claes Bang
Monash University researchers have developed the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur battery, capable of powering a smartphone for five continuous days. Prototype cells have been developed in Germany. Further testing in cars and solar grids to take place in Australia in 2020. Researchers have a filed patent on the manufacturing process, and will capture a large
Blindspot, NBC’s inventive crime drama, appeared to be on the verge of solving its last tattoo case. – At least, that’s what the network’s move of pulling the show from its schedule signalled. However, in a surprising development, NBC has ordered a fifth season of Blindspot, which will serve as its last. NBC’s renewal for Blindspot season
WWE 2K20 isn’t having a very good new year as fans have discovered a bizarre glitch in the game that apparently causes it to crash because of an incompatibility with the year 2020. This honestly hilarious story begins at the start of the new year when wrestling fans tried to load WWE 2K20 and couldn’t
If it takes a village to raise a child then what kind of super city does it take to raise a super powered child? Suppose we’ll find out soon as Netflix has ordered Raising Dion season 2. Raising Dion season 2 does not have a release date yet but production will begin some time this
“A fairy tale has a way of getting into your head,” promises the new Gretel & Hansel trailer. “Even before you hear it.” Directed by Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House), the upcoming adaptation of the classic cautionary story from the Brothers Grimm looks like it
Uncharted, the acclaimed, top-selling adventure video game franchise, has been sitting on the movie adaptation backlog of Sony Pictures for several years. Previously circled by a wide and diverse array of would-be stars and directors, the project is seemingly taking shape with Tom Holland set to star. The Uncharted movie will be based off a
Researchers at Columbia University and University of California, San Diego, have introduced a novel “multi-messenger” approach to quantum physics that signifies a technological leap in how scientists can explore quantum materials. The findings appear in a recent article published in Nature Materials, led by A. S. McLeod, postdoctoral researcher, Columbia Nano Initiative, with co-authors Dmitri
(New York – January 2, 2020) The Department of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received more than $10 million in federal funding for several projects focusing on brain tumor research. The newest grant focuses on the use of magnetic hyperthermia therapy (MHT), a powerful nanotechnology-based treatment that may enhance
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, and N.G. Chernyshevsky Saratov State University have demonstrated that the coupling elements in magnonic logic circuits are so crucial that a poorly selected waveguide can lead to signal loss. The physicists developed a parametric model for predicting the waveguide
This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 5 Vikings turns even more introspective as surreptitious political machinations in both Rus and Norway gather steam, increasing the likelihood of an explosive series of events that promises to radically alter the Scandanavian and Asiatic ruling landscapes. And while Hvitserk continues to psychologically spiral out of
This Doctor Who review contains spoilers and comes from Den of Geek UK. Doctor Who Season 12 Episode 1 It’s been a year to the day since Charlotte Ritchie and a Dalek stole a police car, but for the team in charge of the world’s most recognizable blue box, it must have felt like no
The Twilight Zone is as timeless as infinity. In this dimension, 2019 was a special year for the iconic sci-fi anthlogy as it marked the series’ 60th anniversary. We may be entering a new decade, but Rod Serling will be there to greet us once more with the annual New Year’s Twilight Zone marathon on SYFY. The marathon begins
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