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Make no mistake: The Watch is inspired by Terry Pratchett’s Discworld offshoot series, The City Watch, but the BBC America series is very much its own animal, much the way Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency took its own direction from Douglas Adams’ novel on the same network. However, if the trailer coming out of New
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IMAGE: These prototype nanoparticle cores for thermometry are 35 nm in diameter. view more  Credit: A. Biacchi/NIST Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possible and more, someday, thanks to an ambitious new project underway at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST researchers are
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Animated movies for children walk a tricky tightrope between imparting sobering life lessons about coping with loss and confronting societal evils, without also extinguishing all of the magic that guides a child through the world. It’s rare to find a kids’ movie that doesn’t involve the loss of at least one parent, yet this trope
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IMAGE: Flow pattern around a chemically active Marangoni surfer. view more  Credit: Saeed Jafari Kang and Hassan Masoud/Michigan Tech Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you’re likely to notice water striders — long-legged insects that dimple the surface of the water as they skate across. Or, dip one side of a toothpick
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IMAGE: In situ optical microscopic images showing the process of the microbubble generation and elimination. view more  Credit: H. Lin et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.055001. Tiny bubbles can solve large problems. Microbubbles–around 1-50 micrometers in diameter–have widespread applications. They’re used for drug delivery, membrane cleaning, biofilm control, and water treatment. They’ve been applied as actuators in lab-on-a-chip
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It’s hard enough being a teenager, but having to deal with high school AND all of the Kingpin’s henchmen? Almost impossible. This week on Marvel TL;DR, swing through the origins of Spider-Gwen and her fantastically complicated alternate-universe life! “Marvel’s TL;DR” is for the Marvel fan who hasn’t gotten the chance to dive into some of
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Based on the graphic novel and Bong Joon-ho film of the same name, TNT’s sci-fi drama Snowpiercer came around at a peculiar time in TV history. The highly political series imagined a world in which people were forced to live in close quarters amid apocalyptic climate conditions and debate the soul-crushing nature of class differences.
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WARNING: This Supernatural review contains SPOILERS! Supernatural Season 15 Episode 14 The Final Countdown Begins. Supernatural is back, baby, and there are only seven episodes left until the end.  The previous episode of Supernatural aired all the way back on March 23, 2020. A little over six months later, the highly anticipated fifteenth season continues
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In news that hardly qualifies as a surprise, although still bitter for movie theater owners, Disney is officially breaking the theatrical window for the next Pixar movie, Soul, in favor of a Disney+ premiere. The Mouse House announced the news late Thursday, making good on a move that’s long been speculated, particularly after Disney moved
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Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange is set to become a game-changing addition to the increasingly perplexing ensemble being assembled for the yet-to-be titled Spider-Man 3. Indeed, the habitual usage of “made-up names” now seems likely. The film, following up on Sony Pictures’ Marvel Cinematic Universe-crossing version of Spider-Man, as played by Tom Holland, will see Cumberbatch
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IMAGE: Artists impression of an atom qubit in silicon being protected from charge noise caused by imperfections in the material environment. view more  Credit: Tony Melov Researchers at UNSW Sydney have demonstrated the lowest noise level on record for a semiconductor quantum bit, or qubit. The research was published in Advanced Materials. For quantum computers to
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There are many places in this world that are hard for researchers to study, mainly because it’s too dangerous for people to get there. Now University of Washington researchers have created one potential solution: A 98 milligram sensor system — about one tenth the weight of a jellybean, or less than one hundredth of an
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IMAGE: High-magnification micrograph of an all-solid-state SOFC view more  Credit: UC San Diego The University of California San Diego’s Center for Energy Research (CER) has been awarded two grants from the Department of Energy (DOE) for research focused on developing environment-friendly and cost-competitive energy sources and systems. The multi-year awards bring together several divisions on campus
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IMAGE: A map shows the intensity and locations of photons emitted from a thin film material while a voltage is applied. view more  Credit: Berkeley Lab Secure telecommunications networks and rapid information processing make much of modern life possible. To provide more secure, faster, and higher-performance information sharing than is currently possible, scientists and engineers are
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IMAGE: Structural models of fungal and bacterial cellobiohydrolases (TrCel6A, CfCel6B) view more  Credit: NINS/IMS Efforts to find ways to break down cellulose, the tough stuff that makes up plant cell walls, faster and more productively has long been a goal of industrial researchers. When plants are processed into biofuels or other biomass applications, cellulose has to
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IMAGE: Researchers from St. Petersburg implanted a polymer scaffold as a vascular prosthesis into the rat abdominal aorta and monitored the process of its bioresobtion for 16 months. view more  Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from St. Petersburg provided a unique experiment. They implanted a polymer scaffold as a vascular prosthesis into the
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Lumberjanes, the smash hit all-ages comic created by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Noelle Stevenson and Brooklyn Allen, is coming to streaming. BOOM! Studios announced that HBO Max picked up the rights to the comic with a script-to-series order. Co-creator Stevenson, the creator and showrunner of Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, is attached as
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Deadshot (Neal McDonough) and Captain Boomerang (Greg Ellis) engage in a “friendly” game of darts in this new Batman: Assault on Arkham clip. Batman: Assault on Arkham, the latest entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Original Animated Movies, is now available on Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital HD.
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IMAGE: Model for NGF growth with respect to the Ni surface topography. The variable number of graphene layers correlates with the orientation, size and boundaries of the Ni grains at the… view more  Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Xavier Pita The powerful electronics packed inside the latest smartphones can be a significant challenge to keep cool. KAUST
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