After becoming the multiplayer phenomenon of the summer, Fall Guys is back in the headlines, not because of an upcoming drop of seasonal content or a new set of cross-promotional skins. Epic Games, the studio behind battle royale behemoth Fortnite as well as the Unreal Engine and the Epic Games Store, has acquired Fall Guys
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IMAGE: Rose-tinted contact lenses (about 10 mm in diameter) containing gold nanoparticles filter out problematic colors for people with red-green color blindness. view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09657 Imagine seeing the world in muted shades — gray sky, gray grass. Some people with color blindness see everything this way, though most can’t
On March 18, Zack Snyder’s Justice League will finally see the light of day when the director’s previously uncompleted version of the film premieres on HBO Max. As exhaustively reported over the past couple of years, Snyder stepped away from finishing his version of Justice League in early 2017 following the death of his daughter.
From 1941’s The Lady Eve to the Kill Bill franchise, check out 25 of the greatest revenge movies of all time. “As Khan Noonien Singh once said, ‘revenge is a dish best served cold,’ and cinema is filled with stories where vengeance and retribution get served with chilling brutality and precision. There is a natural
About 10 hours into a November 2019 flight to Australia and the set of Warner Bros. Mortal Kombat reboot, I started to ask myself whether this was all worth it. I loved the original Mortal Kombat movie about as much as anyone unironically can, but the fact remains that the history of live-action video game
IMAGE: Corresponding author Prof Jeff Davis (Swinburne University of Technology) view more Credit: FLEET Just as James Cameron’s Terminator-800 was able to discriminate between “clothes, boots, and a motorcycle”, machine-learning could identify different areas of interest on 2D materials. The simple, automated optical identification of fundamentally different physical areas on these materials (eg, areas displaying doping,
This article contains Superman & Lois spoilers. Superman & Lois episode 2 gave us a lot more information on our potential bad guy, and it’s quite a doozy. Superman’s Iron Man-esque foe isn’t Lex Luthor, he’s a Luthor from a parallel Earth, by implication stranded on this one by the events of the Crisis on
This article contains Superman & Lois spoilers. There’s no question that Superman & Lois really knows its stuff. The first episode was a genuine love letter to Superman history, and proved once and for all that you can do a faithful, reverent take on the Man of Steel legend without just retreading stuff people have
This Superman & Lois review contains spoilers. Superman and Lois Episode 2 There was a time, long ago, when big genre TV shows would get two hour premieres. Not the kind of two hour premiere that Superman & Lois had, where an episode that was actually a full hour without commercials got stretched out over
A Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich team has shown that slight alterations in transfer-RNA molecules (tRNAs) allow them to self-assemble into a functional unit that can replicate information exponentially. tRNAs are key elements in the evolution of early life-forms. Life as we know it is based on a complex network of interactions, which take place at
IMAGE: Coronavirus-like nanoparticles, made from plant viruses and bacteriophage, could serve as positive controls for the RT-LAMP test. view more Credit: Soo Khim Chan Rapid COVID-19 tests are on the rise to deliver results faster to more people, and scientists need an easy, foolproof way to know that these tests work correctly and the results can
IMAGE: Schematic diagram of the reaction pathway for methane oxidation over Au1/BP nanosheets. view more Credit: LUO Laihao Advances in hydraulic fracturing technology have enabled discovery of large reserves of natural gas which primarily contains methane, which is mainly burned directly and causing global warming potentially. Upgrading methane to greener energy such as methanol through aerobic
IMAGE: Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Global Center for Human Health & Pathogen Research have developed a promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate view more Credit: Cleveland Clinic CLEVELAND – Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Global Center for Pathogen Research & Human Health have developed a promising new COVID-19 vaccine candidate that utilizes nanotechnology and has shown strong efficacy
IMAGE: Cockcroft Institute view more Credit: STFC The Cockcroft Institute (CI), a partnership between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has been awarded more than £11 million for R&D into accelerator science and technology. The funding, awarded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), will
IMAGE: An illustration of physically confined spaces in a porous bilayer silica film on a metal catalyst that can be used for chemical reactions. Silicon atoms are indicated by the orange… view more Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY–Physically confined spaces can make for more efficient chemical reactions, according to recent studies led by scientists from
Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War has started production! ► 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/
Our hosts Timothy, Krista and Taylor cover Luke and Nell’s storylines, episodes 4 & 5. We talk about the Bent Neck Lady and Luke’s struggle with addiction. We also take our weekly quiz in our special segment! Now that one of Netflix’s best new series has released, it’s time to talk ALL about it! Join
IMAGE: Photon-photon polaritons in microresonators view more Credit: University of Bath Scientists at the University of Bath in the UK have found a way to bind together two photons of different colours, paving the way for important advancements in quantum-electrodynamics – the field of science that describes how light and matter interact. In time, the team’s
A technological and biological development that is unprecedented in Israel and the world has been achieved at Tel Aviv University. For the first time, the ear of a dead locust has been connected to a robot that receives the ear’s electrical signals and responds accordingly. The result is extraordinary: When the researchers clap once, the
The Alphabet Squadron series has always been about secrets. Since it began in June 2019, the three-book series has essentially filled the role of the old X-Wing novels, following a mismatched group of pilots in the years after Return of the Jedi. Alongside the dogfights were the people hiding histories and motives from one another
Black Hole: The Edge of All We Know is the space-time bending documentary you need to watch on Apple TV. “Supermassive black holes lurk at the center of myriad galaxies like spiders at the center of their web. Yet these cosmic behemoths are invisible to our Earthly instruments — we ‘see’ them only via the
This Black Lightning review contains spoilers. Black Lightning Season 4, Episode 4 Black Lightning has been dealing in trauma for the entirety of its run and that has not changed in this, the final season. And while that can be exhausting, writers have used it to a mostly positive effect, driving the emotional core of
IMAGE: Overview of multidimensional vibrational circular dichroism system view more Credit: Hisako Sato, Ehime University Currently, the roles of free D-amino acids and D-amino acid residues in proteins are garnering extensive attention in biological fields such as molecular biology, physiology, microbiology, and pathophysiology. Because it is crucial to analyze these materials rapidly and accurately, many methods
IMAGE: Mouse with a head-mounted Bluetooth wireless system that transmits neuronal signals from cortex implanted microneedle electrodes view more Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Overview: A research team at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry and Life Science, and
Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a theoretical model to design soft materials that demonstrate autonomous oscillating properties that mimic biological functions. The work could advance the design of responsive materials used to deliver therapeutics as well as for robot-like soft materials that operate autonomously. The design and synthesis of materials with biological functions require a
This week on Marvel TL;DR, we revisit Matt Murdock’s early years as the hero, Daredevil! This tale of friendship, love, and responsibility shows us the true origins of the Man Without Fear. At that time…dressed in the color yellow! ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Watch more from Marvel TL;DR: https://youtu.be/QB-_eFRvDu8 About Marvel TL;DR: “Marvel’s TL;DR”
AFTERBUZZ TV — Shadowhunters is a weekly “after show” for fans of Freeform’s Shadowhunters. In this show, hosts Sam Davidson, Ally Nasta, Dakota T. Jones, and Becca Brown discuss episode 7 with Joshua Butler. ABOUT SHADOWHUNTERS: Shadowhunters is an American fantasy television series based on The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, and developed for television
The winners of the 2020 Protein Science Best Paper awards are Yu-Ting Huang from National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and Samuel Junod and Joseph Kelich from Temple University, USA. Dr. Huang, working in the lab of Pei-Fen Liu, made the unexpected finding that ATP can alter the folding and function of human proteins through protein
This DUCKTALES review contains spoilers. Kit thought he wanted to be a pilot, like his hero Baloo. Kit was great at cloud kicking but he put that aside, looking at it as remnants of his youth. He’s older now, he should be a pilot like his hero… right? Dewey is bored with piloting so after watching five
This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 6 The first season of Snowpiercer, when you dug through all the sci-fi trappings, was a simple mash-up of a standard dystopian end-of-the-world society and a film noir, with Daveed Diggs playing both the speechifying revolutionary and the hard-boiled, world-weary detective all at once. He has