IMAGE: This is Beatriz Noheda, Professor of Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Groningen, lead author of the Science paper. view more Credit: University of Groningen Hafnium-based thin films, with a thickness of only a few nanometres, show an unconventional form of ferroelectricity. This allows the construction of nanometre-sized memories or logic devices. However, it was
Month: April 2021
IMAGE: A hydrogel before and after adsorption of methylene blue in an aqueous solution. view more Credit: Giuseppe Melilli Researchers in Sweden have developed a more eco-friendly way to remove heavy metals, dyes and other pollutants from water. The answer lies in filtering wastewater with a gel material taken from plant cellulose and spiked with small
Antoine Aiello, Nora Dempsey, François Jérôme and Amanda Silva Brun are the four recipients of the CNRS 2021 Innovation Medal. Created 10 years ago, this distinction honours people whose outstanding research has led to significant technological, economic, therapeutic or social innovations that promote French scientific research. From patent filings and pre-maturation programmes for innovative projects,
Stephenie Meyer was truly on her bullshit when she wrote the Twilight saga, and over a decade later, we are still asking ourselves why we let her get away with it. However you feel about her work, there is no denying the cultural shift that happened when a vampire became a disco ball instead of
When Star Trek: Discovery first began, the show was remarkable in that, for the first time in franchise history, its primary protagonist wasn’t a starship captain. Your mileage may vary when it comes to how you feel the show has handled Michael Burnham’s journey over the course of its three seasons to date, but there’s
Reframing fairy tales has long been a common subgenre of fantasy fiction and, at the end of 2020, three authors put their own spins on stories (or fairy tale structures) familiar to most Western audiences by incorporating Asian mythology and settings. S. L. Huang combined European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood with the Chinese
This week on Marvel TL;DR, adamantium is bonded with bone to create the fearsome Weapon X! Learn about Wolverine’s days in the genetic research facility and why it’s a bad idea to mix claws with bunsen burners. ► 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” is for
With the Oscars just around the corner, let’s take a look at the actors with the most Academy Award nominations of all time. “Some actors are in a lot of movies, some actors are in great movies, and some actors are in a lot of great movies. In this last category, Meryl Streep is the
As the upcoming Resident Evil Village looks to terrify some with its classic monsters and excite others with its giant vampire ladies, fans everywhere find reasons to reflect on the greatest franchise in horror game history. Yet, I’m willing to bet that even some of the biggest Resident Evil fans haven’t heard about the “missing”
Season 1 of Jujutsu Kaisen ended last month on a high note with a stellar, action-packed finale. Since the anime launched last year, the series has been lauded for its stupendous animation and fight sequences, but the exciting team-up between the protagonist Yuji Itadori and his classmate, hammer-wielding Nobara Kugisaki, left us hyped and hungry
IMAGE: Graphene aerogel on a single tissue. view more Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Graphene excels at removing contaminants from water, but it’s not yet a commercially viable use of the wonder material. That could be changing. In a recent study, University at Buffalo engineers report a new process of 3D printing graphene aerogels
IMAGE: Researchers encoded patterns and designs into the material by making tiny, invisible tweaks to the geometry of the triangular lattice. view more Credit: (Image courtesy of Shucong Li/Bolei Deng/Harvard SEAS) Reconfigurable materials can do amazing things. Flat sheets transform into a face. An extruded cube transforms into dozens of different shapes. But there’s one thing
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The legendary Animal Crossing franchise is deserving of its iconic status for many reasons, but it’s hard to deny that part of the series’ longevity can be traced back to the memorable personalities of its villagers. In a franchise seemingly devoid of many traditional gameplay hooks, the thrill of inviting that one villager you’ve been
The new Starz documentary series Confronting a Serial Killer is captivating, immersive and infuriating. One of the first things we learn is how victims are parsed through the criminal justice system. On the scale of homicide priorities, “pretty white college students are the most dead, black hookers are the least dead.” Because it tells a
Warning: contains major spoilers for Line of Duty series 1-6. You could say we’ve taken this too far. You could be right. You could also say that, for a Line of Duty fan attempting to solve the Jo Davidson family mystery, it’s useful to know that Tommy Hunter was 13 years old when Jo Davidson
IMAGE: A fungal cell (green) interacting with a nanothin layer of black phosphorous (red). Image magnified 25,000 times. view more Credit: RMIT University Researchers have developed a new superbug-destroying coating that could be used on wound dressings and implants to prevent and treat potentially deadly bacterial and fungal infections. The material is one of the thinnest
Krysten Ritter of “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” and “Marvel’s Defenders” takes your questions in another edition of Ask Marvel! ► Subscribe to Marvel: http://bit.ly/WeO3YJ Watch more from Ask Marvel: https://youtu.be/aRltK0sDVX0 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/
The imminent arrival of Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead will unleash an all-new film from the Justice League-restoring director, this one a return to the zombie wheelhouse that skyrocketed his career with 2004’s masterful Dawn of the Dead remake. While the upcoming film was always expected to manifest as a light-hearted madcap actioner—following a
This story is presented by: Characters don’t usually last too long on AMC’s zombie epic The Walking Dead. Frequent, major character deaths are bound to happen amid a dangerous post-apocalyptic environment rife with ravenous corpses. The culling of cast is also just a fact of life for a physically demanding acting job that requires performers
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman has always liked to tease that the real cause of the zombie outbreak in his long-running comic series was extraterrestrial in nature. Back in January 2020, Kirkman responded to a question on Twitter as to the zombie outbreak’s origin with a simple “space spore.” This was a joke, of
IMAGE: UMass Amherst food science undergraduate student Matt Sheiman develops a plant-based burger. view more Credit: UMass Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst is among nine institutions chosen to collaborate with Big Idea Ventures to help develop and commercialize new, sustainable food products and agricultural innovation that will fuel economic development in rural communities, the New
IMAGE: This sketch displays the experimental procedure of ultra-fast laser moving over the 3DFG electrodes. view more Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Behind every heartbeat and brain signal is a massive orchestra of electrical activity. While current electrophysiology observation techniques have been mostly limited to extracellular recordings, a forward-thinking group of researchers from Carnegie
IMAGE: Over 200 million tons of ammonia are produced each year, most of which is used as a fertilizer. Thus, it is essential to find scalable ecofriendly synthesis routes to satisfy… view more Credit: Freepik Ammonia (NH3) is among the most important chemicals produced by humans and has a promising future in sustainable energy applications besides
Own AWAKEN Today: http://bit.ly/AWAKENfilm From executive producers Terrence Malick (Tree of Life) and Godfrey Reggio (Qatsi documentary series), and narrated by Liv Tyler, comes a unique and timely film experience featuring immersive imagery, beautiful cultures, and an inspiring message. AWAKEN explores humanity’s relationship with technology and the natural world. Shot over a 5-year period in
Inspired by the iconic mid-1990s DC story from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One begins as a brutal murder on Halloween prompts Gotham’s young vigilante, the Batman, to form a pact with the city’s only two uncorrupt lawmen (Police Captain James Gordan and District Attorney Harvey Dent) in order to
IMAGE: An example of an interference pattern produced by the atom interferometer view more Credit: photo/©: Maike Lachmann, IQO Extremely precise measurements are possible using atom interferometers that employ the wave character of atoms for this purpose. They can thus be used, for example, to measure the gravitational field of the Earth or to detect gravitational
IMAGE: Lead author Pablo Bonilla Ataides, now a fourth year undergraduate physics student at the University of Sydney. view more Credit: Louise Cooper/The University of Sydney What started out as a second-year physics project is making its way into Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) quantum computing program. University of Sydney science undergraduate Pablo Bonilla Ataides has tweaked
This Fear the Walking Dead article contains major spoilers. Few Fear the Walking Dead fans will have forgotten Nick Clark’s shocking death in season 4 but even that twist may pale in comparison to the season 6 midseason premiere’s most tragic moment. In fact, “The Door” may be the show’s darkest episode to date. John
Like any good space opera, part of the appeal of Star Wars are the beautiful alien vistas. From the wonder of AT-AT’s marching over a snowfield to a massive city floating among the clouds of a gas giant, Star Wars has long transported fans to strange new worlds. Over the last few decades, the movies
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