Month: December 2020

Join us for the Stephen Hour where Mutants are the problem, and Humans are the good ones! Just kidding, we’re talking episode 11 “meMento” in which more of the Strucker past is revealed; The Morlocks make their return, Marcos and Lorna are officially back together?! (Maybe) as well as a surprise ending leaving us all
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Cyberpunk 2077‘s early reviews suggest that the most anticipated game of 2020 is quite good. Yet, there is a worrying takeaway from those initial impressions, too. The game appears to be very buggy. While we anticipated that Cyberpunk 2077 would ship with plenty of bugs, which honestly wasn’t all that difficult to predict given the
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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. The Mandalorian’s Star Wars lore elements are firmly cemented in pop culture now, so the mind-blowing impact of one of its earliest teases, the title character’s devastating, disintegration-dealing Amban phase-pulse blaster, might already be forgotten. However, the signature forked firearm of Din Djarin, is now set to
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Necessity is the mother of invention, and nowhere does that aphorism apply more than in the realm of humans and their physical needs. That need has inspired Paul Hansma, a UC Santa Barbara biophysicist, to devote decades of his career to developing instruments that can advance medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of some of
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IMAGE: Elsa Reichmanis, Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a highly prestigious… view more  Credit: Courtesy of Lehigh University Elsa Reichmanis, Professor and Carl Robert Anderson Chair in Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, has been elected as
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IMAGE: Crystals of the silver doped complex showed bright red photoluminescence under UV light, whereas crystals of the undoped structure did not emit any light. This pointed to the role of… view more  Credit: Takane Imaoka, Kimihisa Yamamoto of Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered that a silver-doped platinum thiolate
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Marvel and Capcom team up once again for the highly anticipated return of the celebrated action-fighting franchise! Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite hits in 2017. ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Follow Marvel on Twitter: ‪https://twitter.com/marvel‬‬ Like Marvel on FaceBook: ‪http://www.facebook.com/Marvel‬‬ For even more news, stay tuned to: Tumblr: ‪http://marvelentertainment.tumblr.com/‬‬ Instagram: ‪http://instagram.com/marvel‬‬ Google+: ‪https://plus.google.com/+marvel/‬‬ Pinterest: ‪http://pinterest.com/marvelofficial/‬‬
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Cyberpunk 2077 is arguably the most highly-anticipated game of 2020, and after several delays and other controversies, it’s finally here. Fans will be able to get their hands on CD Projekt Red’s new RPG on Dec. 10 (unless you pre-ordered from Best Buy). Ahead of the global launch, here’s what critics are saying about the
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This article contains spoilers for The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. It’s been three decades since the story of crime lord Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) came to a bitter and lonely end in The Godfather Part III, with an aged Michael collapsing and dying alone in the courtyard of a Sicilian villa, his
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Hear Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the newest additions to the team, discuss what it’s like to join the star-studded Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron cast as the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. Plus, Jeremy Renner stops by to describe the scene inside the make-up trailer before filming. Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Keep up with
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Security officials are tasked with preventing criminals from smuggling dangerous materials into a country, and detecting nuclear substances has been difficult and costly. Now Northwestern University researchers have developed new devices based on a low-cost material to aid in the detection and identification of radioactive isotopes. Using cesium lead bromide in the form of perovskite
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IMAGE: Novel type of quantum interference enables single-molecule switch with high on/off ratio. view more  Credit: Julia Greenwald and Suman Gunasekaran/Columbia Engineering New York, NY–December 7, 2020–Researchers, led by Columbia Engineering Professor Latha Venkataraman, report today that they have discovered a new chemical design principle for exploiting destructive quantum interference. They used their approach to create
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A research team led by Tao Sun, associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia, has made two discoveries that can expand additive manufacturing in aerospace and other industries that rely on strong metal parts. Additive manufacturing has contributed to aircraft production for years, as reported by the Association for Manufacturing
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This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. As The Mandalorian approaches the season 2 finale, it seems that the show’s latest episode, “The Tragedy,” has lived up to its title—specifically for collectors of expensive toys. Just this past September, the official Star Wars figures producers of Hasbro Toys—via its HasLab crowdfund project—unveiled and successfully
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IMAGE: The batteries successfully powered a flexible display system equipped with a microcontroller and Bluetooth modules. Here too the battery performed better than commercially available Li coin cells. view more  Credit: University of California San Diego A team of researchers has developed a flexible, rechargeable silver oxide-zinc battery with a five to 10 times greater areal
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IMAGE: COVID-19 electrochemical sensing platform view more  Credit: University of Illinois As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, testing remains a key strategy for tracking and containing the virus. Bioengineering graduate student, Maha Alafeef, has co-developed a rapid, ultrasensitive test using a paper-based electrochemical sensor that can detect the presence of the virus
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LOWELL, Mass. – UMass Lowell faculty and students pursuing climate education or sustainability research that seeks to improve the environment have received funding to support their work through a university initiative dedicated to these issues. The funding for the projects was presented by UMass Lowell’s Rist Institute for Sustainability and Energy (RISE), a collaboration between
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IMAGE: Artistic representation of two antibodies triggering two chemical reactions. view more  Credit: Illustration by Oscar Melendre Hoyos Antibodies are remarkable biomarkers: they are the cues that provide us with indications about many diseases and how our immune system counter them. Now a group of scientists from the University of Rome, Tor Vergata (Italy) has found
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has elected Benton H. Calhoun as a fellow for original and fundamental contributions in integrated circuit design. Calhoun, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, specializes in energy-efficient, sub-threshold circuit design and applications that enable self-powered wireless sensing systems. These wireless sensing nodes are
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Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gnTIbD Kaya Torres is circling a black hole in a pod, with no one coming, no one to help. She’s Alone. ALONE by William Hellmuth Follow the Filmmakers: https://alonetheshortfilm.com/ https://www.instagram.com/williamhellmuth_dp https://www.instagram.com/jeweljoy101/ https://www.instagram.com/jdotinla/ https://www.instagram.com/jfkparenteau/ Subscribe to DUST on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh #DUST #scifi #shortfilm About DUST: DUST presents thought-provoking science fiction content,
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This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 32 Episode 9 The Simpsons season 32, episode 9, “Sorry Not Sorry,” teaches a valuable lesson for a hack comedy cartoon: when apologies don’t work, enforce bribery. This isn’t to belittle extortion, intimidation or other forms of larceny, but this is the twist which Simpsonizes the
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It was 30 years ago that TriStar Pictures released Total Recall, a sci-fi action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ronny Cox, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, and Rachel Ticotin. Based loosely on a story by Philip K. Dick called “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale,” the movie starred Schwarzenegger as Douglas
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