Month: October 2020

In recognition of his “innovative leadership in creating, developing, and commercializing revolutionary polymer-based therapeutics and personal-care products through multiple successful start-up companies,” Craig Hawker, professor of materials, chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara, has received the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 2021 Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success. “This is huge. I personally put
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IMAGE: a) Trajectory of an enzyme-powered nanomotor prepared with lipase in a closed conformation and without controlled orientation during immobilization on the silicon nanoparticle surface. b) Trajectory of an enzyme-powered nanomotor… view more  Credit: CNIC/ IBEC A study by scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), the Universidad Complutense (UCM), Universidad de Girona (UdG),
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IMAGE: Professor Sungwon Lee (left) holds up a hand with the tiny micro-supercapacitor stuck on the skin near his wrist. The device was developed together with Dr. Koteeswara Nandanapalli (right) and… view more  Credit: DGIST Materials scientists Sungwon Lee and Koteeswara Reddy Nandanapalli at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST) developed the fabrication
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IMAGE: Red light is transformed into blue light by frequency doubling inside tiny spheres made of nanocrystals. view more  Credit: ETH Zurich / Jolanda Mueller From microscopes to data transfer via optical fibres all the way to modern quantum technologies, light plays an important role in science and industry. Particularly methods for changing the colour –
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IMAGE: Pressure-induced polymerization of 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne toward crystalline graphitic nanoribbons. view more  Credit: Peijie Zhang New work from a team of scientists led by Drs. Kuo Li and Haiyan Zheng from the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR) collaborated with Dr. Jing Ju from Peking University found pressure-induced polymerization of 1,4-diphenylbutadiyne produces crystalline
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IMAGE: The spin can be seen as an elementary “needle of a compass “, typically depicted as an arrow showing the direction from North to South poles view more  Credit: Lancaster University Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate magnets with laser light pulses shorter than a trillionth of a second. The international team of
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Video games have been trying to scare us since the early ’80s. While the seminal Haunted House Atari game, one of the earliest survival horror games, presented its scares through a mix of heavily-pixelated ghosts and spiders that weren’t so frightening at all, it was indicative of where the genre would one day go. With another push,
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IMAGE: DBScan analysis being performed a mature neuron in a typical vLUME workspace. view more  Credit: Alexandre Kitching Virtual reality software which allows researchers to ‘walk’ inside and analyse individual cells could be used to understand fundamental problems in biology and develop new treatments for disease. The software, called vLUME, was created by scientists at the
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IMAGE: A research team led by the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo finds that hybrid surface waves called surface phonon-polaritons can conduct heat away from nanoscale material structures… view more  Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan — The continuing progress in miniaturization of silicon microelectronic and photonic devices
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IMAGE: Computing consumes 8% of global electricity, largely in massive, factory-sized data centres. This already-unsustainable energy load that is doubling every decade. view more  Credit: Pixabay: Akela999 Electronic data is being produced at a breath-taking rate. The total amount of data stored in data centres around the globe is of the order of ten zettabytes (a
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IMAGE: New deposition approach: synthesising and exfoliating (transferring onto a silicon substrate for example) 2D semiconducting MoS2 view more  Credit: FLEET Moore’s law is an empirical suggestion describing that the number of transistors doubles every few years in integrated circuits (ICs). However, Moore’s law has started to fail as transistors are now so small that the
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Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment take Batman fans on a journey into the iconic past with the full-length animated Batman feature film – Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders. The film features the vocal performances of TV legends Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin and Julie Newmar as Catwoman. Batman: Return of
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This Fargo review contains spoilers. Fargo Season 4 Episode 4 Up until this point, Fargo has been moving at a breakneck pace. It was inevitable that a slower episode would come, and “The Pretend War” feels less like a war, and more like a slow preamble to one. That’s the danger of dumping so much
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This article contains spoilers for Supernatural season 15 episode 14 “Last Holiday.” If you’re a fan of fantasy, you’ve probably heard of a wood nymph, or Dryad, before. Many of us will have first met them in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, where they appear as the female spirits of the trees, but their history
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Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman 1984 has yet to reach theaters, but the director-star team has already found their next project: a modern Hollywood epic about the life and times of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII Philopator, the final pharaoh of the Ptolemy line and in ancient Egyptian history. As broken by Deadline, Gadot
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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor. The Haunting of Bly Manor’s dream-hopping conceit allows the dead and the possessed-living to jump from memory to memory, reliving key moments of their lives. Some memories, like Peter Quint’s encounter with his mother, are traumatic, but others, like Hannah’s first meeting
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