Month: November 2020

This SUPERNATURAL review contains spoilers. Supernatural Season 15, Episode 19 There’s only one. Episode. Left. Nervous? Images of an empty world begin the episode, reinforcing that the Winchesters and Jack are basically all that’s left. An entire world emptied to prove Chuck right is a pretty harsh punishment, something he relishes when the boys call
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IMAGE: Photograph of the Polytechnique Montréal crest taken using visible and infrared illumination. view more  Credit: Pr Sébastien Kéna-Cohen You can’t see it with the naked eye, but a new fluorescent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) could shed light on the development of innovative applications in devices such as smartphone and television displays using near-infrared light. Created
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IMAGE: SEM image of spent lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode before regneration (left) and after (right). view more  Credit: Panpan Xu A new process for restoring spent cathodes to mint condition could make it more economical to recycle lithium-ion batteries. The process, developed by nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego, is more environmentally friendly
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IMAGE: STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) image of a one-dimensional array of F4TCNQ molecules (yellow-orange) on a gate-tunable graphene device. view more  Credit: Berkeley Lab Small electronic circuits power our everyday lives, from the tiny cameras in our phones to the microprocessors in our computers. To make those devices even smaller, scientists and engineers are designing
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IMAGE: We conjugated DAVBNH to an aliphatic ketone-functionalized PEG-PAA block copolymer that spontaneously self assembles in water to form a micelle. view more  Credit: 2020 Innovation Center of NanoMedicine Summary: Using practical nano-DDS technology, a polymeric nanomicelle that effectively delivers the potent mitotic inhibitor desacetyl vinblastine hydrazide (DAVBNH) to glioblastoma (GBM) was developed. GBM, which grows
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To close the substantial gaps in our knowledge, scientists at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) are investigating which particles are released into the environment and what their properties are. Different substances are released into the air depending on the material used for printing. For example, BfR experts were able to detect particles
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A Sheriff is awakened by his daughter, alerting him of a prowler on their ranch. As father and daughter head out into the woods to track something that isn’t human. EXILE by Mark Freiburger Follow the Filmmaker: https://www.markfreiburger.com/ https://www.the7thmatrix.com/blog/2020/6/29/sci-fi-short-film-exile http://thefantasy.news/2020/05/27/mark-freiburgers-exile/ Subscribe to DUST on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gnTIbD #DUST #scifi #shortfilm
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Liquids aren’t as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about. This behavior has made fuel quantity in satellites difficult to pin down, but a new prototype fuel gauge engineered at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could offer an
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Sunlight could be used to convert hazardous medical waste into clean hydrogen fuel, using a new technique being developed by a joint Wales/India team led by Swansea University researchers. The project has just been awarded £47,000 of funding by the Welsh Government. The NHS already spends £700 million a year disposing of medical waste. The
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IMAGE: A first-generation compact hyperspectral camera designed by VTT and the Fabry-Perot interferometer used in it. view more  Credit: Leevi Annala The Academy of Finland has granted €1.2 million in funding for Finnish space research focused on developing hyperspectral imaging solutions to be used in space. Composition of celestial bodies revealed by their spectrum The space
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This Star Trek: Discovery review contains spoilers. Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 5 Since the Discovery first landed in the 32nd century, the ship and its crew has been searching for the missing Federation. This makes sense. Starfleet is a hierarchal structure, and its ships are part of a larger organization with a larger
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Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gnTIbD Two AI assistants chat in an abandoned space base. While You Were Sleeping by Charlie Stewart Follow the Director on Social: scrambledstudio.com instagram.com/instachazzzz Subscribe to DUST on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh #DUST #scifi #shortfilm About DUST: DUST presents thought-provoking science fiction content, exploring the future of humanity through the lens of
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Hugh Grant has confirmed that he caught coronavirus at the start of 2020, describing his various symptoms as both embarrassing and panic-inducing as they developed. The actor, who is currently doing the rounds promoting his new psychological thriller miniseries The Undoing, where he stars opposite Nicole Kidman, didn’t paint a particularly fun picture of his
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IMAGE: Moritz Graule, a graduate student at SEAS, demonstrates a fabric arm sleeve with embedded sensors. The sensors detect the small changes in the Graule’s forearm muscle through the fabric. Such… view more  Credit: (Image courtesy of Oluwaseun Araromi/Harvard SEAS) Think about your favorite t-shirt, the one you’ve worn a hundred times, and all the abuse
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IMAGE: A robotic hand made from soft materials grips an apple. view more  Credit: Courtesy of Changyong Cao. Smarter. Better. Faster. Softer. That’s what Michigan State’s Zhaojian Li has in mind for the next generation of robots that he and his team are building with the support of a new $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant.
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Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales comes exclusively to PlayStation, on PS5 and PS4. Available November 12th, 2020 ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Follow Marvel on Twitter: ‪https://twitter.com/marvel Like Marvel on Facebook: ‪https://www.facebook.com/marvel Watch Marvel on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/marvel Reward your Marvel fandom by joining Marvel Insider! Earn points, then redeem for awesome rewards. Terms and conditions apply.
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IMAGE: L-R: Professor Janet Scott, Professor Davide Mattia and Dr Giovanna Laudisio, Co-Founders of Naturbeads. view more  Credit: University of Bath University of Bath spin-out company Naturbeads has been awarded funding to develop their biodegradable alternative to plastic microbeads that could cut the use of microplastics in a range of industries including pharmaceutical, chemical and cosmetics.
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IMAGE: Structure around a Si atom which has 5 covalent bonds with oxygen atoms view more  Credit: Nagoya University The Japanese research team elucidated the microscopic mechanism in which amorphous silica(1) becomes negatively charged as a vibrational energy harvester(2), which is anticipated to achieve self-power generation without charging, as it is needed for IoT that is
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Parks and Recreation is undeniably one of the most beloved comedies of the 21st century, and a lot of that can be attributed to the show’s sunny disposition. While comedies like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, South Park, and Parks’ direct inspiration The Office were often fueled by nastiness, cynicism, and boorishness, Parks and Rec
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IMAGE: Single virus particle detections using a solid-state nanopore view more  Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan – The ongoing global pandemic has created an urgent need for rapid tests that can diagnose the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, and distinguish it from other respiratory viruses. Now, researchers from Japan have demonstrated
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IMAGE: The copper probe can manipulate matter at the atomic scale. view more  Credit: © 2020 Shiotari et al. Nanographene is a material that is anticipated to radically improve solar cells, fuel cells, LEDs and more. Typically the synthesis of this material has been imprecise and difficult to control. For the first time, researchers have discovered
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