This Star Wars: The Mandalorian article contains spoilers. After eight exciting episodes of adventures all over the galaxy far, far away, The Mandalorian season 2 has come to an end. A daring rescue mission brings Mando, Bo-Katan, and the rest of their crew face to face with the evil Moff Gideon, who has worked all
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If the first season of A Discovery of Witches was like cooler, sexier Twilight for grown ups then season two might be likened to the later, less sexy installments of that saga. There’s nothing that ruins a fizzy will-they-won’t-they relationship like the couple getting together and being happily in love. Season two finds our protagonists
A new season of television is upon us, even if it may not exactly feel like it due to COVID-19 slowing many productions. Despite these setbacks, the animation world has been able to forge ahead more successfully than the rest of television. And anime in particular is set to premiere many new series this year
IMAGE: Schematic diagram showing removal of bacterial biofilm via Mtex view more Credit: POSTECH The COVID-19 pandemic is raising fears of new pathogens such as new viruses or drug-resistant bacteria. To this, a Korean research team has recently drawn attention for developing the technology for removing antibiotic-resistant bacteria by controlling the surface texture of nanomaterials. A
IMAGE: An image of the COVID-19 test chip made by aerosol jet nanoparticle 3D printing. view more Credit: Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Lab, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH–Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report findings on an advanced nanomaterial-based biosensing platform that detects, within seconds, antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19
This article contains spoilers for episode 4 of The Stand. The fourth episode of CBS All Access’ miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s epic novel The Stand, titled “The House of the Dead,” contains two scenes that are surprising to say the least. Neither one of them turned up in the 1994 ABC miniseries based on
Looking for space opera or alternate Earths? Here are some of the science fiction books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Top New Science Fiction Books September 2020 Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots Type: NovelPublisher: William MorrowRelease date: Sept. 22 Den of Geek says: This next-level
This Star Trek: Discovery review contains major spoilers for the end of Season 3. What a ride! The third season of Star Trek: Discovery was easily its most consistent and, dare I say, best yet? From the get-go, the series’ decision to vault its characters into the far future for its third outing proved itself
Genova (Italy), 7 January 2021 – Two new innovation projects funded by the European Research Council (ERC) are born from frontier research on new materials and optical technologies with the aim of introducing new technologies in the field of health and in industrial and infrastructure monitoring: a nanometric sensor capable of supporting surgeons in delicate
IMAGE: Illustration showing the atomic tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope while probing a metal surface with a cobalt atom positioned on top. A characteristic dip in the measurement results is… view more Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich, Germany, 7 January 2021. The Kondo effect influences the electrical resistance of metals at low temperatures and generates complex
IMAGE: A new technique, developed by researchers at NC State, UNC, and Michigan, uses an ultrasound “drill ” to burst nanodroplets in and around hardened blood clots. As the nanodroplets burst into… view more Credit: Leela Goel Engineering researchers have developed a new technique for eliminating particularly tough blood clots, using engineered nanodroplets and an ultrasound
IMAGE: Fluorescent micrograph, above, shows the new nanomaterial in sheet form. The white scale bar is 4 micrometers in the main photo and 2 micrometers in the inset photo. view more Credit: Conticello Lab Chemists have developed a nanomaterial that they can trigger to shape shift — from flat sheets to tubes and back to sheets
IMAGE: Kudithipudi was awarded nearly $1.5 million in combined funding for her research in lifelong learning. view more Credit: UTSA Dhireesha Kudithipudi, founding director of the MATRIX AI Consortium for Human Well-Being, and the Robert F McDermott Endowed Chair in Engineering, was recently awarded $1,481,697 in combined funding for her research in lifelong learning. This funding
To call the production of American Gods’ first two seasons problem-plagued is to put it mildly; Old Testament Egypt had fewer problems with plagues. After a successful first season, showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green departed, followed by actors Kristin Chenoweth and Gillian Anderson. In February 2018, Jesse Alexander and original series author Neil Gaiman
Graham and Ryan have left Doctor Who, and it was sad/joyous/on telly (delete as applicable), but where do their departures rank on the all-time list? The question of “Who counts as a companion?” is a tricky one. Overall it’s an ad hoc combination of different criteria, with allowances made for the exceptions that are intended
This Star Trek: Discovery review contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 13 Star Trek Discovery wraps up its third season with a finale that’s equal parts action and empathy, and though the mix of the two doesn’t quite work as well as some viewers might like, the end result is fairly solid. Despite an occasional
This article contains spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 12, “There Is a Tide…” Remember that time when Admiral James T. Kirk pretended to be a socialist so he didn’t have to pay the bill on a pizza date? In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Dr. Gillian Taylor (Catherine Hicks) rolls her
This The Expanse review contains spoilers. The Expanse Season 5 Episode 6 The Expanse has reached an interesting threshold where it’s becoming possible for the series to outdo its own source material. Specifically, the dialogue in this week’s more emotional scenes was used to its maximum potential, in some ways surpassing the parallel sequences in
Though the news was understandably downplayed during what proved to be a turbulent year, December 31, 2020, marked the end of Adobe’s official support of the Flash Player. The end of their official support cast serious doubt on our ability to easily access a legion of Flash games that have, in their own way, carved
IMAGE: In a microwave oven, sparks are generated inside a glass vial containing coal powder and copper foil as part of an experiment by University of Wyoming researchers. They successfully converted… view more Credit: Chris Masi Using copper foil, glass containers and a conventional household microwave oven, University of Wyoming researchers have demonstrated that pulverized coal
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IMAGE: Schematic representation of a processor for matrix multiplications which runs on light. Together with an optical frequency comb, the waveguide crossbar array permits highly parallel data processing. view more Credit: WWU/AG Pernice In the digital age, data traffic is growing at an exponential rate. The demands on computing power for applications in artificial intelligence such
IMAGE: A pen containing conductive ink can draw circuits on a variety of surfaces — even a loofah (seen here). view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.0c00866 Conductive ink is a great tool for printing flexible electronic circuits on surfaces. But these inks can be costly, they do not work on
A scene that did not appear in New Year’s Day’s Doctor Who Special, ‘Revolution of the Daleks’. SCENE: EXT. 10 DOWNING STREET, A PRESS CONFERENCE IS BEING HELD PRIME MINISTER JO PATTERSON: …and so I introduce to you, our new, fully automated defence drones! A “DEFENCE DRONE” GLIDES INTO VIEW. Ad – content continues below
Warning: contains A Discovery of Witches season 1 plot spoilers It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. At the start of A Discovery of Witches season one, the magical world was in crisis. Creatures – witches, vampires and demons – were in decline on Earth.
Discovery+ is the newest streaming service on the block, but is it worth subscribing to compared to its conpetitions? “Discovery’s new streaming service has finally arrived. The company’s official entrance into the streaming wars brought all of Discovery’s assets under a single roof, with everything from true crime to reality TV to nature documentaries. Discovery+
Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair of cities, how do you determine the shortest route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the starting location? This famous problem is called the “traveling salesman problem” and is an example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Solving these problems using conventional
Join now at: https://yourdcu.com/swampthingtrailer SWAMP THING follows Abby Arcane as she investigates what seems to be a deadly swamp-born virus in a small town in Louisiana but soon discovers that the swamp holds mystical and terrifying secrets. When unexplainable and chilling horrors emerge from the murky marsh, no one is safe. Based on the DC
Netflix has been an original content powerhouse in recent years. Here are the best TV shows the streaming service offered up in 2020. “Netflix cranks out a lot of original content. Every year, the streaming giant invests billions of dollars to roll out dozens of new original series and movies, but not every release can
This giveaway is sponsored by Tales From the Hinterland, the latest from The Hazel Wood author Melissa Albert, isn’t just a stunning collection of dark fairy tale stories; the book itself is art. The 12 stories inside are accompanied by full-page illustrations from Jim Tierney, foil stamping, two-color interior printing, and printed endpapers. In a