All good things must come to an end, and that includes Supergirl. The WB TV show, which began life on CBS before moving to The CW in its second season, will be ending with the upcoming sixth season. The CW and producers Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Productions made the announcement today ahead of the
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Mark Oshiro’s Each of Us a Desert is about finding your place in this world through the most unexpected means, while staying true to yourself. Part coming-of-age story, part fantasy, this book not only delivers an enchanting tale, but also has some of the most creative world building happening in speculative fiction right now—all told
IMAGE: When the energy levels of a quantum system are filled, fermionic particles exclude each other, whereas bosonic matter can accumulate in the lowest level. In contrast, anyons behave in an… view more Credit: ICFO While in a three-dimensional world, all particles must be either fermions or bosons, it is known that in fewer dimensions, the
Welcome to WandaVision. Coming soon to Disney+. Marvel Studios’ captivating new series “WandaVision” stars Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany, and marks the first series from Marvel Studios streaming exclusively on Disney+. The series is a blend of classic television and the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban
IMAGE: Illustration of a prospective biocompatible interface shows that hydrogels (green tubing), which can be generated by an electron or X-ray beam 3D-printing process, act as artificial synapses or junctions, connecting… view more Credit: A. Strelcov/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new method of 3D-printing gels and other
IMAGE: Dr. Danila Barskiy, winner of a 2020 Sofja Kovalevskaja Award view more Credit: Danila Barskiy The diverse work of Mainz-based physicists in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance is being boosted by a new highly application-oriented approach: In October 2020, Dr. Danila Barskiy will join Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) to set up a group
Kajillionaire is the first feature film from writer-director Miranda July in which she isn’t also the star. It’s a different experience, stepping outside the frame and choosing instead to cast Evan Rachel Wood as her unconventional leading lady. But as the artistic polymath also tells us over a digital interview, she also “never [has] to
Kathryn Hahn’s appearance in the WandaVision trailer was a bit of a surprise, to say the least. We’ve known she was going to be in the show for some time now, but the trailer seemed to give away the game on who she was, and her character is really bad news for Wanda, if the
Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media, parent company of game publisher Bethesda Softworks and all of its prized studios, isn’t just one of the biggest deals ($7.5 billion) in the history of the industry. It’s an arrangement that could very well change the course of gaming as well as the outcome of the Xbox Series X
Singapore, 22 September 2020 – Researchers from Critical Analytics for Manufacturing Personalized-Medicine (CAMP), an interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have been awarded Intra-CREATE grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore to help support research on retinal biometrics for glaucoma progression and neural cell
IMAGE: Close-up photo of the photodetectors. view more Credit: RMIT University Researchers have developed the world’s first photodetector that can see all shades of light, in a prototype device that radically shrinks one of the most fundamental elements of modern technology. Photodetectors work by converting information carried by light into an electrical signal and are used
What a rollercoaster?! Gambi finds out the truth about Khalil, Anissa nearly meets her maker, and greenlight is distroying the Pierce family. Tune into the Black Lightening After Show! CW and Greg Berlanti expand the footprint of their DC Comics universe with this exploration of the intersection between family life and being a superhero. As
Mr. Mercedes has found a new home in NBCUniversal’s recently launched streaming premium platform, Peacock. The move to Peacock yields a new lease on life for Mr. Mercedes, the Stephen King adaptation crime series, which started life in 2017 as a broadcast offering on the AT&T-owned, DirecTV-exclusive Audience Network, only to be left derelict with
Good news! Netflix’s epic Jim Henson Company series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance won the Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program last night. Now onto some bad news… Netflix confirmed today that it will not be moving forward with future seasons of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, canceling the show after one season. io9
This DUCKTALES review contains spoilers. Lena and Magica’s arc in DuckTales has consistently been the series’ strongest. While fantastical on the surface it’s been grounded in the very real emotions of trauma. It’s shown off the more dramatic side of the series and most of the Lena and Magica episodes have featured some incredibly creepy images. All
IMAGE: Comparison of gravitational and optical behavior. V. Smolyaninova et al. view more Credit: V. Smolyaninova et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056001 Metamaterials–nanoengineered structures designed for precise control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves–have enabled such innovations as invisibility cloaks and super-resolution microscopes. Using transformation optics, these novel devices operate by manipulating light propagation in “optical spacetime,” which may
A team of scientists from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., has developed a new tool that mimics how SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — infects a cell, information that could potentially speed the search for treatments against the disease. The tool is
IMAGE: Researchers from The University of Tokyo and Fudan University observe the crystallization process in a droplet view more Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan–Crystallization is the assembly of atoms or molecules into highly ordered solid crystals, which occurs in natural, biological, and artificial systems. However, crystallization in confined spaces, such
Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media (which importantly includes the Bethesda Softworks brand) has left millions of people wondering just what this means for the future of the Xbox Series X and Game Pass as well as upcoming Bethesda titles like The Elder Scrolls 6, Starfield, and any upcoming Fallout projects. Let’s start with what we
In today’s retro movie review, our friends at io9 look back at 1993’s Super Mario Bros. movie and how its a weird homage to New York City. “One of the interesting things about living in New York City during the coronavirus pandemic has been discovering ways to experience the area vicariously through different forms of
The day you’ve been waiting is almost here! On Tuesday, Sept. 22, Xbox fans will get the chance to pre-order the Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft’s next-gen consoles. The new consoles, which cost $499 and $299 respectively, will be available for pre-order at 8 am PT/11 pm ET. You will be able to
IMAGE: A researcher tests the function of the solar cells inside the glove box. view more Credit: City University of Hong Kong While the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) – a future of solar cells – has already greatly improved in the past decade, the problems of instability and potential environmental impact are
IMAGE: The researchers’ method allows them to create a much larger amount of MoS2 at a lower cost. view more Credit: The University of Texas at Austin. An international team of researchers have found a way to refine and reliably produce an unpredictable and hard-to-control material that could impact environmental conservation, energy and consumer electronics. The
IMAGE: Researchers found the reason for the absence of the speed limit: exotic particles that stick to all surfaces in the superfluid view more Credit: Lancaster University Physicists from Lancaster University have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit in a continuation of earlier Lancaster research. Helium-3 is a rare isotope of
Join hosts Jaimi, Jorge, Chauncey and Zach as they discuss everything Elseworlds! Part One was action packed starting with Barry and Oliver switching places, Amazo being activated and a much needed visit to Earth 38. Flash is based upon characters published by DC Comics where through a freak accident scientist Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) is
The first full trailer for Marvel’s WandaVision dropped during the 2020 Emmys, and with it came a TON of new information about the show. But there’s one quick little nod to comics history that might herald a shift in how the Scarlet Witch and Vision are portrayed in the greater Marvel Cinematic Universe. For a
It’s been a long, dry spell for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After Spider-Man: Far From Home, all we had was the finale of Agents of SHIELD, and that barely even counts anymore in terms of the larger MCU. We were supposed to have Black Widow back in May, but that’s been delayed until at least
The first trailer for Marvel’s WandaVision Disney+ series has arrived, and it most certainly didn’t disappoint. Alternating between clever sitcom homages, comics accurate costumes, and the eerie knowledge that one of its title characters is supposed to, well, quite dead to be frank, WandaVision looks like a genuinely fascinating and unpredictable MCU entry. It’s set
Magicians! Season 4 rolls on, as all Fillorian animals have been struck dumb, the Eliot-monster continues his god-killing quest, Penny and Marina have some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey adventures, and Alice moves to…Modesto? Join hosts Ty Matthews and Adrian Snow as they talk about it! ABOUT THE MAGICIANS: The Magicians is a fantasy television series that premiered
This article contains The Devil All the Time spoilers. You can read the review here. After so much bloodshed and tragedy, few could expect to find peace at the end of things. That includes Tom Holland’s taciturn Arvin Russell. Yet sitting in a Volkswagen next to a long-haired gentleman, one who appeared to be part