IMAGE: NIST researcher June Lau with a transmission electron microscope (TEM) that she and her colleagues retrofitted in order to make high-quality atom-scale movies. view more Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron microscope — a long-standing scientific
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IMAGE: By combining laser and microwave excitation the researchers were able to change the spin states, for example “up ” to “down “, of atom-like impurities hosted in the material and show the… view more Credit: Dr M. Kianinia A team of international scientists investigating how to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D materials
A new simple blood test for brain tumours that could be used by GPs in primary care is being developed thanks to funding of nearly £500,000 by Cancer Research UK. Around 60,000 patients in the UK are living with a brain tumour but only 20 per cent of patients are still alive five years after
IMAGE: Optical micrograph of the inside of a luminescent substrate showing the red fluorescent emission from the quantum dot layer on top of the micro-patterned bottom reflector. view more Credit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google search for dark-field images, and you’ll discover a beautifully detailed world of microscopic organisms set in bright contrast to their
This Avenue 5 review contains spoilers. Avenue 5 Episode 6 Things get downright claustrophobic in the vast domain of space on Avenue 5, episode 6, ”Was It Your Ears?.” The underlying paranoia of the ship’s guests comes to the surface exposing deeper fears, more horrifying realities and inappropriate laughs. Iris (Suzy Nakamura) steals this episode outright. The new danger the
Mortal Kombat 11’s first Kombat Pack of DLC characters is almost at an end. So far we’ve seen the familiar with Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, and Sindel. We’ve had special guest stars in the Terminator and the Joker. That leaves the sixth entry, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. McFarlane’s been wanting his creation to show up in a
Although vampires have been using powers of seduction to wile their way into their victims’ hearts for more than a century in literature, it’s only been a few decades since the creatures of the night became the beautiful, brooding immortals in television and film that fought against their bloodthirsty urges to seek human companionship. Despite
The best zombie stories always provide a mix of unrepentant storytelling, over the top gore, and psychologically screwed up moral choices for the characters — think the zombie baby in Dawn of the Dead, or pick a moment at random from The Walking Dead. DC Comics’ zombie thriller DCeased had its fair share of those psychological moments, including
Three Fields Entertainment has announced that Dangerous Driving 2 is in the works. This, of course, is the sequel to Dangerous Driving, the high-octane racing game that was developed by a lot of people that previously worked on the Burnout franchise. The crashing-heavy Dangerous Driving launched in April 2019 and is widely considered to be
The nature of modern television means that sometimes it’s unclear whether any given drama is a full series, limited series, or even an anthology series. Ultimately such distinctions don’t mean much…unless you have your heart dead set on seeing a second season one day. Such is the situation we all find ourselves in with HBO’s
This article is sponsored by Tor Books. Fantasy maps, which have been a staple of fiction for decades, can tell the reader a lot about the book’s world, story, and even characters. Perhaps the most famous comes from The Hobbit, with its Dwarvish rune ciphers explained by the language-loving author in a brief translation guide
The latest Nintendo Direct focused on Animal Crossing: New Horizons and revealed quite a few new details about the upcoming title. There’s a lot to cover here, but the gist of what we larned is that New Horizons is going to be a bit different from some of the series’ most notable titles of the
Today in New York at Toy Fair, Hasbro announced the twenty-eighth season of Power Rangers. Right now we don’t know the full title of the season but we do know that it’ll be taking footage from Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger. There had been a lot of speculation about which Sentai season would be adapted for the series,
Katy Rose Pool’s There Will Come a Darkness was one of the most critically-acclaimed young adult fantasies of 2019. The epic story of a prince, a killer, a leader, a gambler, and a dying girl in a world prophesied to die drew comparisons to Throne of Glass, Children of Blood and Bone, and An Ember
Fortnite is once again crossing paths with Marvel, with the famously mouthy comic-book mercenary Deadpool appearing in the iconic battle royale game as an unlockable skin in the latest Battle Pass. There have been a few crossovers between Marvel and Fortnite in the past, including last year’s Stan Lee-homaging Avengers: Endgame event, but this one
You’ve never seen a TV series quite like Hunters. Created by David Weil, who serves as co-showrunner with Nikki Toscano, and produced by Amazon and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, the 10-episode series is set in 1977 and follows a ragtag, diverse group of clandestine spies, researchers and assassins who are out to find and stop
Marvel never really needs an excuse to release another Spider-Man title. He’s their bread and butter. A lot of the time they can just do a regular Spider-Man series and just tack on a new adjective. Sometimes there will be a gimmick to it, like having him team up with other heroes, emphasis on his
Eli Roth (Hostel, Death Wish) is officially set to direct an upcoming film adaptation of the popular Borderlands video game franchise. “I’m so excited to dive into the world of Borderlands and I could not be doing it with a better script, producing team, and studio,” said Roth in a press release. “I have a
The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) has awarded new grants totaling $1.8 million to two University of Texas at Dallas scientists for their research related to lung and kidney cancers. The Individual Investigator Awards are among 55 new grants totaling more than $78 million that the institute announced Feb. 19. To date,
Since 2009, RiffTrax has been broadcasting live shows across North American movie theaters with RiffTrax Live. Brought to us by Fathom Events, RiffTrax Live has featured everything from Plan 9 From Outer Space to The Room to Krull. As of now, there have been thirty installments, ending with last year’s mockery of The Giant Spider
Garbage Pail Kids may be best known as a purposefully-puke-inducing trading card parody of a specific moment of mid-1980s ennui in the aftermath of the Cabbage Patch Kids toy phenomenon (notably the 1983 holiday retail riots it caused), but the franchise is still kicking in 2020. Moreover, this ‘80s icon is about to handled by
Netflix has confirmed the names of returning and new members of The Witcher‘s cast ahead of the show’s anticipated 2021 season 2 release date. Every major member of the show’s original cast will return for season 2 (including Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, and Anya Chalotra), so it’s the new cast members that have really caught everyone’s attention.
IMAGE: Figure. A: Optical image and band diagram of the heterojunction formed by the thickness variation of black phosphorus 2D material. B: Schematic of the tunnel field-effect transistor and the thickness-dependent… view more Credit: KAIST Researchers have reported a black phosphorus transistor that can be used as an alternative ultra-low power switch. A research team led
March 2020 is an extremely HBO month for HBO. What we mean by that is that the list of new releases for the month contain a lot of the hallmarks of the HBO brand that the network has built over the years. There is the third season of an expensive and popular sci-fi series with
It’s awe inspiring to me that I can know from the moment a comic is announced that it is extremely For Me, and yet still be surprised at how good every issue is. It’s even more impressive that I’m getting it from two creators who are relatively new to the medium. But that’s the beauty
Our friends at ModMyMods, who helped us build our official Den of Geek PC last year, have released a new product called ModWater, a coolant that is specifically designed to help fuel the liquid cooling system in your PC. DIYers will likely be familiar with the water cooling systems that have become more common in today’s
IMAGE: Professor Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. view more Credit: Lehigh University Xiaoji Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University, has been named a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow. This prestigious award, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, places Xu
IMAGE: Prof. Job Boekhoven and Caren Wanzke at the Technical University of Munich discovered a new material system that can release drugs with a constant release rate over a tunable period… view more Credit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active agents can be not only precisely dosed, but
This spoiler-free review is based on episodes 1 – 7. Somewhen between Carrie White, Kitty Pryde and Buffy Summers, adolescent girls and superpowers became a winning combination. All those hormones, all that loneliness and rage, all that feeling like a mutant and being terrified/thrilled by burgeoning sexuality… it’s a metaphor-a-palooza that hasn’t gone unexploited, especially
There’s so much to look forward to in our speculative fiction future. Here are some of the horror books we’re most excited about and/or are currently consuming… Join the Den of Geek Book Club! Top New Horror Books in February 2020 Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland Type: Novel Publisher: Balzer + Bray Advertisement Release date: 2/4/20