Month: May 2020

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HBO Max has officially entered the streaming wars and while it brings with it an impressive library of content—both old and new—it’s also realized how important a decent anime selection is to users. Warner Brothers has ties with companies like Studio Ghibli and anime specialty services like Crunchyroll, which they’re able to pull from for
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IMAGE: A University of Texas at Arlington bioengineering researcher will use nanotechnology to detect defective iron-carrying proteins in a patient’s blood, which could help explain why these patients have anemia…. view more  Credit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington bioengineering researcher will use nanotechnology to detect defective iron-carrying proteins in a patient’s blood, which
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IMAGE: Humidity sensor combining variable filter and solar cells. view more  Credit: Junsuk Rho (POSTECH) Smart windows that automatically change colors depending on the intensity of sunlight are gaining attention as they can reduce energy bills by blocking off sun’s visible rays during summer. But what about windows that change colors depending on the humidity outside
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When you’ve had a big hit, it’s often all anybody wants from you. To artists, that level of success can feel like a trap. Fearful that the breadth of their creative genius may go unacknowledged, a singer might spend years trying to shake off a number one single, turning their back on requests for the
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IMAGE: University of Cincinnati engineering professor Vesselin Shanov displays carbon nanotubes he created in his lab. view more  Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative + Brand Engineers at the University of Cincinnati are using a National Science Foundation grant to develop a face mask that can be sterilized with heat for re-use. “Currently, there is a significant
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EVANSTON, Ill. — A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to inexpensively and efficiently clean up oil spills without harming marine life. After squeezing the oil
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UC Santa Barbara condensed matter physicist Andrea Young conducts his work at the boundary of theory and actuality, as he builds instrumentation to probe for signature quantum properties in advanced materials. Using his expertise in the realm of graphene systems, he and his research group also work to coax as-yet hypothetical behaviors from the two-dimensional
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IMAGE: These act as advanced catalysts to speed up the hydrolysis of amide bonds. view more  Credit: © 2020 Fujita et al. In proteins, amino acids are held together by amide bonds. These bonds are long-lived and are robust against changes in temperature, acidity or alkalinity. Certain medicines make use of reactions involving amide bonds, but
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Welcome to the HBO Max era! WarnerMedia’s streaming giant arrived on May 27 and is absolutely bursting with Warner movies, TV shows, and other titles. But time waits for no man or streaming service and each new month HBO Max will be expected to bring new content to the table. Things get started in June
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From the moment Mortal Kombat hit arcades, it was seen as more than just a simple Street Fighter II clone. The controls were different, the atmosphere was different, and it had an extremely different look, thanks to the digitized actors that replaced the traditional pixel art of the era. That more realistic look went hand-in-hand
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Dr Sumsun Naher and Professor Aziz Rahman have received a Marie Curie Fellowship to develop a hybrid sensor for the detection of diabetes from exhaled breath. Diabetes is a chronic disease which causes its sufferers to have high blood sugar levels. The disease causes limb loss, strokes, heart attacks, kidney damage and death if diabetes
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IMAGE: Alamgir Karim, Dow Chair Professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston, says the project could lead to more environmentally friendly plastics and other polymers. view more  Credit: University of Houston Shrimp, lobsters and mushrooms may not seem like great tools for the battlefield, but three engineers from the University of Houston
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May 27, 2020 (Oslo, Norway) — The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters today announced the 2020 Kavli Prize Laureates in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. This year’s Kavli Prize honours scientists whose research has transformed our understanding of the very big, the very small and the very complex. The laureates in each
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Greetings, and welcome to our monthly rundown of goodies that are set for Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service here in the UK this June! Highlights on Prime this month? Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider book series gets the TV treatment, This Is Us returns for season 4 after Channel 4 abandoned the UK broadcast rights to
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A report by Sports Business Daily suggests that the NFL will soon extend their deal with EA in order to ensure that the publisher retains the exclusive right to develop NFL simulation video games through 2025. The report indicates that the deal isn’t quite official (it will seemingly be voted on this week), but that
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