Month: May 2020

[embedded content] Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was a revelation for the psychological thriller genre, its take on mental illness giving a unique spin to action-adventure gameplay. Now, Celtic warrior Senua returns in Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II for a new dive into the darkness that’s sure to be even more breathtaking than the
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To achieve his ultimate form centuries before the Clone Wars, Durge voluntarily underwent a cybernetic surgery to permanently merge his “body” with his armor, turning him into a more efficient and powerful killing machine. To use another X-Men analogy, this makes Durge sort of a reverse Wolverine, but this time, the adamantium is on the
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Discerning television viewers are right to be skeptical about the idea of adapting the sci-fi film Snowpiercer for the small screen, but once they see the depth of emotion and heart-pounding action of the ten episode series that begins on TNT at 9pm ET on May 17th, their cynicism will disappear. This is not just
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While there’s never a doubt that Queen Ramonda takes the back seat to her children, she’s clearly got a backbone of steel. In the MCU, when Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) wins in ritualistic combat against T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), Angela Bassett’s Queen Ramonda, along with her companions, brave Jabari land to gain allies in taking back
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Star Wars Battlefront II explored a whole new story set between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The single-player campaign introduced Iden Versio, the leader of the Empire’s elite special forces unit and later a Rebel and Resistance agent, as well as new Rebel heroes and Imperial villains. It also featured the return
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This SOLAR OPPOSITES review contains spoilers. Solar Opposites Episode 3 I have a lot of respect for how Solar Opposites is shooting for the stars with its stupid plotlines this early in its existence. It’s so charmingly goofy and weird that this is a series about aliens crash-landing on earth and, instead of obvious sci-fi
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IMAGE: This is Maksim Sergeev, ITMO University. view more  Credit: ITMO.News Oxides of different metals often serve as photocatalysts in various systems such as air purification, reactions of water decomposition and even in the production of self-cleaning surfaces for glass and mirrors. The physical-chemical properties of such materials can be improved by adding nanoparticles, which turn
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IMAGE: An international team has proposed a novel method that allows to widely extend this range of working frequencies of phonon polaritons in van der Waals materials. view more  Credit: (Source: University of Oviedo) An international team led by researchers from the University of Oviedo and the Centre for Research in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (CINN-CSIC), together
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Scorn is one seriously disturbing game. Its emphasis on grotesque representations of the human form with a slightly alien twist is not only worthy of its influences — the H.R. Giger inspiration is clear — but showcases a level of body horror we rarely see in video games.  “The team has drawn visual inspiration from Swiss
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Looks like that Viacom-CBS merger is continuing to pay off for both companies…  and also for consumers who aren’t afraid of a little corporate consolidation.  Deadline reports that ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish told analysts and investors on a Thursday conference call that the company’s most prominent streaming service, CBS All Access, will be getting a
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IMAGE: Electrets — electrons trapped in defects in two-dimensional molybdenum dioxide — give the material piezoelectric properties, according to Rice University researchers. The defects (blue) appear in the material during formation… view more  Credit: Ajayan Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (May 7, 2020) – Rice University researchers have found evidence of piezoelectricity in lab-grown, two-dimensional flakes
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IMAGE: Yinan Hu, a member of Professor Dmitry Budker’s research group at JGU, holding a battery cell, alongside a device which measures the state of charge view more  Credit: photo/©: Arne Wickenbrock Rechargeable batteries are at the heart of many new technologies involving, for example, the increased use of renewable energies. More specifically, they are employed
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IMAGE: Laser sintered samples by using PA12 powder and gold nanoparticles (GNRs), tungsten oxide (WO3) and carbon-black-based sensitizers (CB). view more  Credit: ICFO Selective powder sintering for 3D printing has recently become an increasingly affordable solution for manufacturing made-to-order elements of almost any shape or geometry. This technique involves heating a bed of powder (such as
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IMAGE: This is Dr. Samuli Autti view more  Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University’s Dr Samuli Autti has been awarded a Young Scientist Prize 2020 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. The prestigious prize, awarded only once every three years, was made by the Low Temperature Commission of the IUPAP. He said he was
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IMAGE: a. Electron microscope image of a hematite mesocrystal (assembled from tiny nano-particles of approx. 5nm). b. Gas production from the anode. c. Graph to show the current density and applied voltage. The… view more  Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Associate Professor TACHIKAWA Takashi of Kobe University’s Molecular Photoscience Research Center has succeeded
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IMAGE: Assistant Professor Gary Moore from Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Applied Structural Discovery. view more  Credit: Mary Zhu Gary Moore, assistant professor in ASU’s School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Applied Structural Discovery has just been named one of 14 young faculty nationwide
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