Month: July 2020

After Alexander Hamilton, no character has a bigger entrance in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical than Thomas Jefferson. For if Hamilton’s intro begins Act One, then Jefferson opens Act Two. And for those who are discovering Hamilton for the first time on Disney+, it’s a hell of an arrival as Daveed Diggs leaps across the stage with
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The following contains spoilers for the entire season of Netflix’s CURSED as well as the novel of the same name. Read our spoiler-free review of the series here. Netflix’s Cursed puts a feminist spin on the myth of King Arthur, centering this version of the story on one of its least-familiar female characters. The witch
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The play’s the thing—that will be available for some musical fans in London and throughout England come August. Indeed, the UK government announced Friday afternoon that indoor performing arts and concert venues can open their doors at a reduced capacity on Aug. 1. The news was made official on Twitter by Oliver Dowden, Secretary of
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Researches are pushing the boundaries of data speed with a brand new type of organic LEDs. An international research team, involving Newcastle University experts, developed visible light communication (VLC) setup capable of a data rate of 2.2?Mb/s by employing a new type of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). To reach this speed, the scientists created new
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IMAGE: A schematic diagram of Cu2O-Mn3O4-NiO ternary nanocomposites preparation process. Compared with the traditional hydrothermal method, the materials prepared by electrospinning are nanostructure, which improved the electron transport capacity and the… view more  Credit: Author In a paper published in NANO, a group of researchers from Jiangsu University of Technology, China have developed novel Cu2O-Mn3O4-NiO ternary
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In a report published in NANO, a team of researchers from Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China have developed N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) and oxygen evolution reactions (OER) to optimize performance of zinc-air batteries. Three-dimensional porous graphene-like carbon layer encapsulated Fe/Fe3C (Fe@NCG) was prepared by pyrolysis of
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If you were concerned about there being a content drought in August due to the coronavirus pandemic shutting down Hollywood, you were…absolutely right in those concerns. For its new releases in August 2020, Hulu is following Apple, Disney, and even Peacock’s lead in taking things nice and slowly. The vast majority of the notable offerings
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Syfy has been …how to put this delicately… ‘a little more commitment-phobic’ in regards to its own series over the last handful of years, so a first teaser trailer for Child’s Play TV show Chucky gently noting that USA Network remains firmly on board is not only reassuring, but of course tremendously exciting for fans
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IMAGE: New membrane technology could reduce carbon emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. Georgia Tech Associate Professor Ryan Lively shows a module containing the new membrane material, while… view more  Credit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech New membrane technology developed by a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Imperial College London,
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IMAGE: Nano-[2]catenane, nano-[5]catenane and nano-poly[22]catenane view more  Credit: Politecnico di Torino The “nanolimpiad”, as the complex structure of self-assembled links has been named, looks like the five Olympic Rings and may become the source of new polymeric materials with innovative properties. A collaboration of research groups from Japan (Chiba University), Italy (Politecnico di Torino), Switzerland (SUPSI)
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IMAGE: (a) Adsorbed CO2 molecules on graphene sensor (b) van der Waals (vdW) interaction between adsorbed molecules and graphene at zero electric field (c) vdW interaction between adsorbed molecules and graphene… view more  Credit: JAIST Monolayer graphene, an atomic-layer thick sheet of carbon has found immense applications in diverse fields including chemical sensors, detecting single molecule
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IMAGE: A tele-meeting with the results: from left, William J. Munro, Nicolò Lo Piparo, Kae Nemoto, Michael Hanks, and Claude Gravel. view more  Credit: Kae Nemoto, Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science, the National Institute of Informatics in Japan The quantum realm holds the key to the next revolution in communication technology as we know
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IMAGE: The arrows point to titanium dioxide nanocrystals lighting up and blinking (left) and then fading (right). view more  Credit: Tewodros Asefa and Eliska Mikmekova Imagine tiny crystals that “blink” like fireflies and can convert carbon dioxide, a key cause of climate change, into fuels. A Rutgers-led team has created ultra-small titanium dioxide crystals that exhibit
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This THE 100 review contains spoilers The 100 Season 7 Episode 9 This episode backfills Octavia, Diyoza, Hope, and Echo’s experience with the Disciples that led to their dramatic entrance/reveal in the stone room with Clarke in the previous episode. It turns out that the reason Hope was missing is that she didn’t pass the training and
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Australian thriller The Secrets She Keeps, currently airing on BBC One and iPlayer, takes the audience to a very dark place says Laura Carmichael. Her character Agatha, a supermarket worker who befriends a pregnant blogger, ‘does such unbelievable things, the most irresponsible things’ driven ‘by the impulse of motherhood’. Building a crime thriller around that
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IMAGE: A graphic showing how shrinking a material down to thicknesses of just a few nanometers can disrupt its atomic bonds. view more  Credit: Kapteyn/Murnane Group/JILA University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell. The team,
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