This Star Wars: The Clone Wars review contains spoilers. The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 2 Review The second episode in the Bad Batch arc digs deeper into characterization and world-building, especially that dramatic irony The Clone Wars overflows with. Executive producer Dave Filoni and his writing team have an ear for dramatic irony, and the
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This post is sponsored by Tor Books. Readers who have been following R. A. Salvatore’s career since his early days and the introduction of his iconic character Drizzt Do’Urden, know that the author has never followed a clear path that defines good and evil. In his most recent novel, Song of a Risen God (the conclusion
The developers at DeNA have announced some big new additions to the Pokémon Masters mobile game, including a single-player survival mode called Battle Villa. This will be music to the ears of gamers who called for more single-player content at the time of the game’s launch in August last year. “Battle Villa is a new
The following contains major spoilers for Altered Carbon season 2. There will always be casualties when adapting any novel to the screen. Settings can change, plot points dropped, and some important characters may even get left behind. When it comes to episodic television though, there are plenty of opportunities to bring back lost favorites into
Adam Strange is the quintessential 1950s pulp science hero. On Earth, he was an archaeologist with a boring life (at least relative to the Nazi hunting peaks that we know archaeology professors can hit thanks to the Indiana Jones franchise). He was hit by a mysterious beam of light while on a dig in Peru,
In February, Den of Geek descended into a dungeon-like underground bar in Paris to take part in a preview event for Baldur’s Gate 3. Journalists sat on pews in a chapel-like room to watch Larian studio head Swen Vincke play through a few hours of the highly anticipated RPG. We didn’t get a chance to
IMAGE: Computer simulation by the Göttingen research team: a bacterium propelling itself along using flagella pointing forwards and behind. view more Credit: Sarah Mohammadinejed, University of Göttingen The magnetotactic bacterium Magnetococcus marinus swims with the help of two bundles of flagella, which are thread-like structures. The bacterial cells also possess a sort of intracellular “compass needle”,
This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 4 Episode 14 “How’s Jughead doing these days?” Let’s address the whoopee hat-wearing elephant in the room: Jughead is obviously not dead. I mean duh. Advertisement Despite all the corpses shown/red herrings thrown around here, this is just a simple fact. Losing Jughead would break the show, and
Time for a Time Force sequel! Coming to you exclusively from Den of Geek, Boom! Studios has announced they’ll be showing some love to one of most popular Power Rangers teams outside of Mighty Morphin, Power Rangers Time Force. While the Time Force characters have been seen in Wild Force, Super Megaforce, Hyperforce, Super Ninja Steel,
Hearthstone’s Battlegrounds mode has just received its biggest update yet. There’s quite a lot to cover here (and you can read the full details here), but the headline of the latest Battlegrounds patch is the addition of dragons to the mode’s roster of minions. Despite being one of the most popular minion types in Hearthstone’s constructed
Hello Clarice, indeed! Per The Hollywood Reporter, CBS has cast Rebecca Breeds (The Originals, Pretty Little Liars) to play FBI agent Clarice Starling in Clarice, a sequel series to the 1991 true crime classic The Silence of the Lambs. CBS announced Clarice earlier this year at the Winter TCA press tour. The show is set to
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every Jane Austen novel must be adapted an infinite amount of times and we will be grateful for all of them. (Yes, even the Pride & Prejudice & Zombies film, the best part of which was not the movie itself but a supercut of Matt Smith as Mr.
After releasing multiple quality collections of the classic Mega Man and Mega Man X games, Capcom has turned its focus to yet another Mega Man subseries with the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection. Despite the somewhat awkward title, this is the best collection of Mega Man titles yet. The Zero and ZX games are among the
IMAGE: Assistant Professor Xiaohu Xia works in his chemistry lab at the University of Central Florida. view more Credit: UCF, Karen Norum For the first time, a team of scientists at the University of Central Florida has created functional nanomaterials with hollow interiors that can be used to create highly sensitive biosensors for early cancer detection.
IMAGE: Gold nanoparticle technology can detect cancer extracellular vesicles in a blood sample view more Credit: University of Queensland A novel blood test that uses gold nanoparticles to detect cancer has also been shown to identify signals released by cancer cells which could result in earlier diagnosis and better treatment. New research has revealed the nanotechnology
IMAGE: An image showing the water drop bounce view more Credit: university of Warwick When a water droplet lands on a surface it can splash, coat the surface cleanly, or in special conditions bounce off like a beach ball Droplets only bounce when the speed of collision with a surface is just right, creating a very
IMAGE: The virtual lab connecting Southampton, Zurich and Padova. view more Credit: University of Southampton Research on novel nanoelectronics devices led by the University of Southampton enabled brain neurons and artificial neurons to communicate with each other. This study has for the first time shown how three key emerging technologies can work together: brain-computer interfaces, artificial
Researchers from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, teaming up with scientists from Singapore and the U.S., have found that nanoscale precipitates provide a unique sustainable dislocation source at sufficiently high stress. The scientists discovered that densely dispersed nanoprecipitates simultaneously serve as dislocation sources and obstacles, leading to a sustainable and
IMAGE: The new hole transport polymers with ethylene glycol side chains have high solubility in the green solvent and hold lead leaked from the aged perovskite solar cells. view more Credit: Taiho Park (POSTECH) Solar energy that reaches the Earth is about 125 million gigawatt (Gw). When this solar energy generated for a year is converted
This Legends of Tomorrow episode review contains spoilers. Legends of Tomorrow: Season 5, Episode 5 Your typical episode of Legends of Tomorrow tries to do several things: -It works to advance the season’s narrative. -It usually dips into one or two characters in some depth. Advertisement -It makes me laugh. -And lately, it’s also worked
This Better Call Saul review contains spoilers. Better Call Saul Season 5 Episode 2 Even if the second night of AMC’s grand two-night premiere of Better Call Saul can’t help but feel a little less ceremonious than last night’s premiere, it’s still an exciting escalation of the story and an interesting rewind back to some of Season 1’s
Den of Geek is hosting this giveaway in partnership with Tor Books. Part mystery, part space opera, A Memory Called Empire was one of the most engaging speculative fiction books of 2019 (not to mention one of the best-titled releases of the year). The story follows Ambassador Mahit Dzmare, a fish-out-of-water emissary who just got her dream
IMAGE: The image is a GIF showing the droplet interaction from underneath. view more Credit: University of Leeds Cameras shooting up to 25,000 frames a second have been used to capture the moment two droplets of liquid come together and mix – and it is opening up research into new applications for 3D printing. With one
This Briarpatch review contains spoilers. Briarpatch Episode 3 While doing press for Briarpatch, which has been pushed to the unfortunate hour of 11 p.m. on Monday nights (let’s hope those streaming numbers stay steady), creator Andy Greenwald has joked that the show should be subtitled “Rosario Dawson Talks to Weirdos.” He’s certainly not wrong; “Terrible, Shocking Things”
IMAGE: Even with a mesh screen covering an object, (top), Stevens quantum 3D imaging technique that generates images 40,000x clearer (middle) than current technologies (bottom). The technology is the first real-world demonstration… view more Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light’s quantum properties
IMAGE: A simulation of 3-nm-grain-sized nickel under strain. Colored lines indicate partial or full grain dislocation. view more Credit: Zhou et al You can’t see them, but most of the metals around you–coins, silverware, even the steel beams holding up buildings and overpasses–are made up of tiny metal grains. Under a powerful enough microscope, you can
The Better Call Saul fiesta continues! Better Call Saul season 5 premiered its stellar first episode, “Magic Man,” last night. The experience was so fun that AMC decided to just go ahead and air another one tonight. In keeping with it usual release tradition, Better Call Saul season 5 will now settle into its usual Monday
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, Team Ninja’s superhero brawler game that launched exclusively on Nintendo Switch last year, is getting its third major DLC package – and this one promises to be fantastic. It will center on the Fantastic Four going into battle with Doctor Doom. Set to launch on March 26, the new DLC
Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique to observe complex behaviours in magnets, including fast-moving waves and ‘tornadoes’ thousands of times thinner than a human hair. The team, from the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow in the UK and ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, used their technique to observe how the
A collaborative team of researchers at Utah State University and the University of Central Florida developed a tool to track cellular events that may lead to obesity-related conditions in people. The research findings were published Feb. 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team, led by Anhong Zhou, a professor in