HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2020) – That banana peel, turned into graphene, can help facilitate a massive reduction of the environmental impact of concrete and other building materials. While you’re at it, toss in those plastic empties. A new process introduced by the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour can turn bulk quantities of
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Cholesterol is crucial to the formation of the cell membranes of mammals and is part of many life processes. One of the most controversial concepts in biophysics is the hypothesis of the so-called lipid rafts: areas of high concentrations of cholesterol and glycosphingolipids in membranes. These lipid rafts, also known as lipid microdomains, are areas
IMAGE: Jing Shi is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Riverside. view more Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A team of physicists has discovered an electrical detection method for terahertz electromagnetic waves, which are extremely difficult to detect. The discovery could help miniaturize the detection equipment on microchips
IMAGE: The four most ambitious intiatives of the EU exhibit at the MWC20 in Barcelona. view more Credit: Quantum Flagship, Graphene Flagship, Human Brain Project, Battery 2030+ The world is moving at full speed, pushing forward an amazing wave of novel and disruptive technologies that will change the way we see, move, behave and even communicate.
National City’s Girl of Steel is back for Supergirl Season 5, and in the process of fighting Big Bad Leviathan. As you may have heard, she’s got a new look—that includes pants—which has got to make everything just a little bit easier (and warmer). You can read more about Supergirl’s latest costume here. Here’s everything else
Developer Ninja Theory has announced that it has started work on a new title currently known as Project: Mara. “Project: Mara will be a real-world and grounded representation of mental terror,” says Ninja Theory. “Based on real lived experience accounts and in-depth research, the goal is to recreate the horrors of the mind as accurately
IMAGE: Computer science experts at UTSA have published the first review of the security and privacy risks posed by e-scooters and their related software services and applications. view more Credit: Photo by MusicFox Fx on Unsplash (San Antonio — January 27, 2020) Micromobility vehicles, such as e-scooters, zip in and out of traffic. In San Antonio
The director of photography is the unsung hero of any set, making the lighting and framing of a scene as important as what the characters are saying or doing, but in television, where episode directors rotate in and out, a consistent vision is particularly crucial. Science fiction shows have the extra challenge of creating a
It looks like the original trilogy of Mortal Kombat games is due to make a comeback on modern consoles, as well as entering the online realm, with IGN reporting that PEGI (a rating board that decides on age-based guidelines for game releases in Europe) has accidentally let the news slip out. An entry titled “Mortal
The Charmed reboot is back for Season 2, this time with a new showrunner. Carter Covington was replaced by Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro for Charmed Season 2, and a new “creative direction” is being targeted for the trio of budding witches, with the series set to “lean harder into its supernatural storylines and less into the family dynamic”
The developers from inXile Entertainment have announced that Wasteland Remastered is coming to Xbox One and PC. This is your confirmation, then, that the much-loved first game in the Wasteland franchise is all set to make a big comeback. Fans will remember that the original Wasteland was a post-apocalyptic role-playing game that launched in 1988,
It remains a time of grand upheaval for the Marvel TV universe and two announced Marvel projects at Hulu are feeling the effects. After production on Tigra & Dazzler was paused in December amid a creative overhaul, Hulu has gone ahead and terminated that show along with the more familiar Howard the Duck. The Holllywood
The evolution of esports continues to reach new levels, and today we’ve learned that official Fortnite competitions are going to be held for high school and college students throughout the USA. And, better yet, these experiences will be free to take part in. A company called PlayVS – which also runs tournaments for Rocket League,
Never doubt the public’s appetite for enormous, man-eating snakes…or at least movie studios’ perception of the public’s appetite for man-eating snakes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Columbia Pictures has ordered a reboot of 1997’s monster horror hit Anaconda. Evan Daugherty, writer of Tomb Raider and Snow White and the Hunstman, is attached to write the
Born in Vienna on January 26, 1920, Hans Holzer was like many children, fascinated by the ghost and fairy stories he heard in his youth. But those tales, told by his Uncle Henry, which he retold at school to the disapproval of adults, stayed with Holzer. Ghosts became his life’s work as one of the
Some fascinating images from the canceled The Last of Us animated movie have appeared online and seem to paint a portrait of what could have been. Animation studio Oddfellows posted the pictures on their website, but they’ve since been taken down. Thankfully, you can still view them via a saved Google Cache page. The images
IMAGE: Two photons are entangled, one in polarization and the other in orbital angular momentum — twisted light. By passing the polarization photon through the fiber and keeping the twisted light… view more Credit: Wits University New research done at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology
Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are coming to what Disney hopes will be Earth’s Mightiest Streaming Service. With the launch of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, an impressive lineup of Marvel Cinematic Universe favorites and classic Marvel animated shows will be part of its library from launch. But that’s not all. One of the centerpieces of Disney’s
The team from Big Little Lies have reunited to tell a story about the lies people tell themselves. Nicole Kidman – also coming off the success of Aquaman – stars in HBO’s The Undoing, a new limited series written by David E. Kelley, who also serves as showrunner. Susanne Bier serves as director and executive
Amnesia developer Frictional Games recently began teasing an upcoming project via a previously dead website. The mystery of this project grew larger recently with the reveal of what seems to be an ARG campaign tied to the upcoming title. As with most ARG campaigns, this one is a little weird, so you’ll need to bear with
Researchers have developed an ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material that could be printed and rolled out like newspaper, for the touchscreens of the future. The touch-responsive technology is 100 times thinner than existing touchscreen materials and so pliable it can be rolled up like a tube. To create the new conductive sheet, an RMIT University-led
Last week the Internet had a bad feeling about Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi series. Turns out that bad feeling may have been warranted. As first reported by Collider, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series starring Ewan McGregor has been placed on hold for the time being at Disney+ and the cast and crew has been sent home as
Den of Geek is hosting this giveaway in partnership with Tor Books. V.E. Schwab is one of our favorite authors here at Den of Geek. From the Shades of Magic series to spooky middle grade read City of Ghosts to her “In Search of Doors” speech delivered at the J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature, we’re really just big Schwab fans. We’re particularly excited
Apex Legends Season 4 is on the way, and it’s bringing a new playable Legend with it. The new character, named Forge, is described as a former MMA champion whose place in the in-game competition is oddly sponsored by Hammond Robotics. While Hammond Robotics has made a couple of cameos in Apex Legends, the company plays
IMAGE: Researchers in ORNL’s Quantum Information Science group summarized their significant contributions to quantum networking and quantum computing in a special issue of Optics & Photonics News. view more Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has conducted a series of experiments to
IMAGE: A simple, modular chemical approach could produce over 65,000 different types of complex nanorods. Electron microscope images are shown for 32 of these nanorods, which form with various combinations of… view more Credit: Schaak Laboratory, Penn State Using straightforward chemistry and a mix-and-match, modular strategy, researchers have developed a simple approach that could produce over
How would you go about returning books to the correct shelves in a large library with the least amount of walking? How would you determine the shortest route for a truck that has to deliver many packages to multiple cities? These are some examples of the “traveling salesman problem”, a type of “combinatorial optimization” problem,
Ben and Erin Schroeder, the husband and wife veterinarian stars of National Geographic’s news series Heartland Docs, DVM, almost found a different route to television altogether. After a local paper ran an article about Ben and Erin remodeling old buildings in their hometown of Hartington, Nebraska, production companies began calling looking for the next Chip and
For a few months now, one of the big questions I’ve had in comics is “How the hell did Green Lantern #12 happen?” That series closed with Hal Jordan, so deep in his Blackstar cover that everyone believes he flipped and joined the fascist space army, using a Miracle Machine (the machine from the end
Square Enix has revealed a new mobile game set within the Kingdom Hearts universe. This strange title is currently known as Project Xehanort, but as it says on the game’s recently launched Twitter account, that title is a work-in-progress handle. Actually, a recent tweet even encourages people to “Guess the Name” of the game as