IMAGE: Peptoid nanosheets are a single layer of crystals made from the spontaneous stacking of peptoid chains into parallel rows. Individual nanosheets floating in water were rapidly frozen and imaged by… view more Credit: Berkeley Lab Protein-like molecules called “polypeptoids” (or “peptoids,” for short) have great promise as precision building blocks for creating a variety of
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This spoiler-free review is based on viewing the first six episodes of The Expanse season 4. The timing of The Expanse’s move from Syfy to Amazon could not have come at a better time in terms of the source material the show is adapting in season 4. With the crew of the Rocinante spending most
With Marvel’s MCU Phase 4 rapidly approaching, it’s almost surprising that it has taken this long for the Taskmaster to show his skull-covered face. Taskmaster has been taking on various Marvel heroes since 1980 and has gone on to star in two miniseries while getting the occasional supporting character role. He’s on that border where
Revealed by Microsoft during its E3 2018 media briefing, Halo 6 is actually called Halo Infinite. The game was announced with a cryptic two-minute trailer that doesn’t really tell us what the game is. In fact, all we really know based on the first trailer is that the story could feature a Halo ring. Master Chief
IMAGE: A single-layer of tungsten disulfide, a two-dimensional material, was put on a silicon dioxide, a hydrophilic substrate and it showed tungsten disulfide interacting with water and oxygen molecules in the… view more Credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside for long and
IMAGE: CaZrSe3 in the distorted orthorhombic perovskite phase depicted from the (a) side view and (b) top view. view more Credit: Ganesh Balasubramanian, Eric Osei-Agyemang and Challen Enninful Adu For solar cells to be widely used in the coming decades researchers must resolve two major challenges: increasing efficiency and lowering toxicity. Solar energy works through a
Dorothy Catherine Fontana, the legendary television writer better known by her gender-hiding nom de plume, D.C. Fontana, has passed away on December 2 at the age of 80, following a short illness, announces the official Star Trek site. Even to casual fans of 1966-1969’s original Star Trek series who might be oblivious to the show’s
Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne series may be coming to our TV screens. According to THR, the science fiction novels are in development at AMC Studios for a possible TV series from the speculative fiction writer who also brought us Annihilation. The Borne novels are set in the future in a city that has been destroyed by
If you’re one of the many who just can’t wait for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, then you might want to keep an eye on a newly announced Vampire: The Masquerade spin-off title that offers a slightly refined take on the franchise’s narrative experience. “Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York is a unique, atmospheric,
IMAGE: This is a zoomed-in SEM image of nanopillars of the metalens. view more Credit: (Image courtesy of Joon-Suh Park/Harvard SEAS) Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras, sensors, and displays. But so far, most of the lenses have been about the size
New York University Professor David Grier, who has pioneered technologies for organizing and probing matter with computational holography, has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the organization announced today. “The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that
The properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides are attracting a great deal of interest, and one of the reasons is their catalytic activity. In particular, better catalysts are needed to exploit the potential of water electrolysis – splitting water into its component elements – to provide sustainable energy storage. “MoS2 is one of the most
IMAGE: The graphene nanoribbon (center) consists of a single layer of honeycomb carbon atoms. The ribbon is only a few carbon atoms wide and has different electrical properties depending on its… view more Credit: Copyright: Jan-Philip Joost, AG Bonitz New materials are needed to further reduce the size of electronic components and thus make devices such
IMAGE: Organic transistors based on single crystals of rubrene, a hydrocarbon, can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them when a crystal is slightly bent (strained). This useful behavior… view more Credit: Vitaly Podzorov/Rutgers University-New Brunswick p>Slightly bending semiconductors made of organic materials can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them and
Star Wars: The Clone Wars isn’t the first animated series set in the galaxy far, far away but it’s certainly one of the franchise’s most important. The show, which ran on Cartoon Network from 2008 to 2013 and then on Netflix in 2014, expands the stories of the Prequel era as well as the lore of the
This article consists of nothing but Shazam! spoilers. We have a spoiler free review of the film here. Shazam! marks the first time the character has come to the big screen as a big budget movie (1941’s The Adventures of Captain Marvel was a serial, not a feature film). The movie is based heavily on one
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is out now, and word on the street says the game is doing well: its early sales on PC have surpassed the launch numbers of both Star Wars Battlefront games that EA has released, which can only be a good sign. There’s been no official announcement of a sequel, but
IMAGE: Artistic representation of the strategy adopted in the work. Antibodies, by binding to antigen-conjugated DNA tiles, induce the assembly of tubular nanoscale structures. view more Credit: Ella Marushchenko What if we could use antibodies as functional tools for nanotechnology applications? A group of researchers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata started from this simple
Even before they had the movie rights to Cain Marko, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been an unstoppable juggernaut. The movies have been making all the money in the world, but Marvel is so rich in characters and concepts that they’ve begun to encompass the TV and streaming worlds, as well. We’re at a point
A Ms. Marvel TV series is coming to streaming service Disney+, based on the Hugo-award winning and critically acclaimed comic book series of the same name. The first Muslim superhero to headline her own series for Marvel, Ms. Marvel has already made it to the small screen as part of the Marvel Rising animated series, but
Sony is preparing to unveil its next-generation console. The PlayStation 5, as it it’s officially called, will be Sony’s latest foray into gaming after dominating the current generation of consoles with the PS4. The real question is how the new console will perform against its immediate competitor, Xbox Scarlett, Microsoft’s own next-gen machine, which boasts powerful
IMAGE: The book consists of 20 chapters including the four written by Professor Kim and covers the history, development, synthesis, and physiochemical properties of cucurbiturils, as well as their applications in… view more Credit: Kimoon Kim (POSTECH) By invitation from the Royal Society of Chemistry, POSTECH professor Kimoon Kim (Director, IBS Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity)
IMAGE: Hans Zappe, Harry Levinson to lead SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS view more Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and Cardiff, UK — Two new co-editors-in-chief will take the helm of the Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3) starting 1 January, 2020. Harry Levinson, a consultant at HJL Lithography, and Hans Zappe, the
IMAGE: Understanding roughness at such microscopic levels allowed researchers to understand the mechanics of how soft surfaces adhere to them. view more Credit: University of Akron College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering PITTSBURGH (Dec. 2, 2019) — Tires gripping the road. Nonslip shoes preventing falls. A hand picking up a pen. A gecko climbing a
IMAGE: A green lower-energy laser light goes through silicon quantum dots, which the silicon quantum dots re-emit, or upconvert, into a higher-energy blue light. view more Credit: Lorenzo Mangolini & Ming Lee Tang/UC Riverside Materials scientists at the University of California, Riverside and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that it is possible to
IMAGE: Desorption of water isotopomers (H2O, HDO and D2O) from surfaces of isotope-mixed ice with various H/D compositions. view more Credit: NINS/IMS The physicochemical and biological properties of hydrogen-bonded systems are significantly affected by nuclear quantum effects including zero-point energies of vibrational modes, proton delocalization, and tunneling effect. These originate from the extremely low nuclear mass
IMAGE: Silicon nanocrystals are formed by a silane gas in a plasma process. view more Credit: Lorenzo Mangolini/UC Riverside A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Riverside have found a way to produce a long-hypothesized phenomenon–the transfer of energy between silicon and organic, carbon-based molecules–in a breakthrough
IMAGE: Future magnon torque based devices such as this could allow for faster electronic gadgets that require less power and do not overheat. view more Credit: National University of Singapore Modern computer memory encodes information by switching magnetic bits within devices. Now, a ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
IMAGE: This is an illustration of aligned metallic carbon nanotubes in the team’s thermoelectric device. A temperature gradient causes an electrical current to flow. view more Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used aligned “metallic” carbon nanotubes to create a device which converts heat to electrical energy (a thermoelectric
My Hero Academia is one of the more popular anime to emerge in recent years. With three seasons and a feature film under its belt, the series’ Season 4 hits the ground running in 2019 for what’s to be another year of excitement. Young Izuku Midoriya and his fellow classmates at U.A. High continue to