Month: January 2021

This article contains spoilers for Search Party season 4. At this point, Search Party has done just about everything a dark comedy can be asked to do. Through four seasons, the show has: captured a Nancy Drew-style mystery through a millennial aesthetic, maneuvered through an unnerving, at times violent paranoid thriller, and deftly executed a
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Conversion of most materials into organized crystalline structure starts with the nucleation process. One everyday example that many people may be familiar with is the rapid crystalization of supercooled water after the nucleation of a seed crystal. This phenomenon has been perplexing both scientists and ordinary people alike. The nucleation process, in which the atoms
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IMAGE: Study researchers Drs. Snigdha Banerjee, Suman Kambhampati, Sushanta Banerjee, and a colleague examine a pancreatic cancer image. view more  Credit: Jeff Gates Researchers with the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center and North Dakota State University have designed a new way to deliver pancreatic cancer drugs that could make fighting the disease much easier. Encapsulating
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IMAGE: Solid-state batteries are charged and discharged in custom-made hardware designed at Georgia Tech. A smaller, modified version of the cell shown here was used to image these materials during cycling…. view more  Credit: Matthew McDowell, Georgia Tech Using X-ray tomography, a research team has observed the internal evolution of the materials inside solid-state lithium batteries
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Genova/Lecce (Italy), 28th January 2021 – Understanding and treating brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease, addiction, chronic pain, depression and schizophrenia, entails the comprehension of the alterations that may occur in the deep regions of the gray matter. Thanks to the European-funded project DEEPER, an international research consortium, coordinated by IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian
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IMAGE: Scientists at Nagoya University, working in collaboration with NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd., have developed a set of composite materials composed of layers of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) and tungsten carbide… view more  Credit: Katsuyuki Matsunaga Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are incredibly strong materials used in jet engines, gas turbines, and cutting tools for nickel superalloys.
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Join Karla Beltran, Steve Kaufmann, and Zack Peter break down the newest episode of Gotham! Season 5 Episode 5 Pena Dura in which A military task force, led by Eduardo Dorrance is called in to provide relief to Gotham. Meanwhile, Nygma looks for answers from Penguin, who leads him back to Hugo Strange. Then, Bruce
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This article contains spoilers for the final season of Vikings. In its final season Vikings tied up the story of Ragnar and his sons, and ended with a pitch-perfect, almost poetic, coda. Ragnar, however, was just the beginning of the Vikings’ story. Later this year, Netflix will bring us the saga’s concluding chapter, Vikings: Valhalla.
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#GameofThrones #Review #AfterBuzzTV We’ve spent NINE years covering HBO’s Game of Thrones and tonight we give you a full series overview as our tribute to this legendary show. Join hosts Kristen Snyder (@cinematicescape), Dave Child (@mrdavechild), Anna-Kay Thomas (@annakaythomas) and Jeremy Dann as they discuss what they loved, what they would have changed and what
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IMAGE: Integration of polymeric membrane/dielectric sphere assemblies in microfluidic chips for enhanced-contrast imaging with low-magnification systems, doi 10.1117/1.JOM.1.1.014001. view more  Credit: Viri et al. The development of cost-efficient, portable microscopy units would greatly expand their use in remote field locations and in places with fewer resources, potentially leading to easier on-site analysis of contaminants such as
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IMAGE: The image displays the exfoliation of hexagonal boron nitride into atomically thin nanosheets aided by surfactants, a process refined by chemists at Rice University. view more  Credit: Credit: Ella Maru Studio HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2021) – Just a little soap helps clean up the challenging process of preparing two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Rice
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Traditionally, when critics discuss “the next Game of Thrones” or when studios, networks, and streamers search for “the next Game of Thrones,” the candidates put forth have much in common, genre-wise, with the late, sometimes great HBO series. They are the Lord of the Rings TV show or His Dark Materials or The Witcher—aka epic
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Warner’s DC Extended Universe films continues navigating an unconventional era, having premiered Wonder Woman 1984 as a day-and-date streaming exclusive (until Jan. 24) in lieu of a prospectively profitable wide theatrical release. However, a grandiose return to theaters is eyed to start in 2022 with a barrage of DCEU movies, which will eventually yield the
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IMAGE: A metalens fabricated on 2-inch glass wafer (left) and a scanning fiber mounted through a piezo tube (right). The fiber tip locates within the focal length of the metalens. Light… view more  Credit: Photo credit: Zhaoyi Li/Harvard University Despite all the advances in consumer technology over the past decades, one component has remained frustratingly stagnant:
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IMAGE: Headlights Infographic: ADB with MEMS 2D optical scanner, based on the piezoelectric effect. view more  Credit: SPIE Car accidents are responsible for approximately a million deaths each year globally. Among the many causes, driving at night, when vision is most limited, leads to accidents with higher mortality rates than accidents during the day. Therefore, improving
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IMAGE: A new type of nanofiber swab could improve sample collection and test sensitivity for SARS-CoV-2 and other biological specimens; ruler at left shows centimeters. view more  Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04956 Rapid, sensitive diagnosis of COVID-19 is essential for early treatment, contact tracing and reducing viral spread. However, some people infected with
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Seventy-five years ago, a railroad man named Alan Scott hoisted the very first emerald lantern…and a comic book legend was born. Many years and an entire spectrum of Lantern Corps later, Green Lantern remains one of the most popular super heroes to ever hit the page. In this exclusive DC All Access comics clip, we
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Salvatore schools go on a “family” road trip, shady agent Clark is back and Josie reveals her deepest secret. Watch as host break down Episode 12 “There’s a Mummy On Main Street”. Mystic Falls is popping up again as the new generation makes it’s appearance! Join the LEGACIES AFTERBUZZ TV AFTER SHOW every week for
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In Fate: The Winx Saga, Bloom (Abigail Cowen) is a fairy who was raised among humans, without knowledge of the fairy world, or her own fairy power. After her fire powers violently manifest, she travels to Alfea, a magical school in the fairy world, to be with others of her kind and to learn how
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Warning: this Marcella review contains spoilers. A radical change of hairstyle is often an indication of a breakdown, which is the only honest way to describe the end of Marcella’s last season. That finale was a hard reset. Like an unhinged divorcee lobbing old belongings from the window of a moving car, the show rid itself
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It’s not unusual for Capcom to hide Resident Evil‘s biggest plot points until we actually play the game, but the mysterious nature of Resident Evil Village‘s story and setting are significant even by this series’ standards. However, no Resident Evil Village mystery is more noteworthy than the unanswered questions surrounding the game’s villains. While we’ve
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IMAGE: The microstructure of a composite ceramic phosphor, and the appearance of an LED device based on view more  Credit: Denis Kosyanov, FEFU Materials scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), in collaboration with an international research team, have advanced the design of composite ceramic materials (Ce3+:YAG-Al2O3), i.e. solid-state light converters (phosphors) that can be applied
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BROOKLYN, New York, Monday, January 26, 2021 – Atomically thin, 2D hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a promising material whose protean ability to undergo phase transformations to strong, super lightweight, chemically stable, oxidation-resistant films makes them ideal for protective coatings, nanotechnology thermal applications, deep-UV light emitters, and much more. The possibilities embodied in different polytypes
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