Chucky, the upcoming spinoff series of the venerable Child’s Play horror franchise, is set to bring the terror of a homicidal, serial-killer-spirit-inhabited doll to a new medium and a new generation. However, don’t you dare call it a “reboot,” since the series, like the film franchise, remains the mutilating manifestation of creator Don Mancini, who
IMAGE: X-ray diffraction patterns of the Pr3+:LaF3 (CPr?=?1%) nanoplates and nanospheres indicate that the studied samples are hexagonal structured crystals (JCPDS-32-0483, space group P3c1, No. 165). The inset additionally demonstrates peak… view more Credit: Kazan Federal University The article represents the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and flow cytometry study of A-549 (human lung carcinoma) cellular uptake
Hosts Sam Davidson, Taylor Gates, and Alexus Mozell discuss “We’re Being Punked, Pedro.” Alaric forces the kids to do some community service, Raf and Landon attempt to survive on their own, Hope and Josie form an unexpected bond, and a Gargoyle wreaks havoc on the school. Mystic Falls is popping up again as the new
Actress Sonequa Martin-Green has plenty of experience when it comes to being in franchises with established fanbases. She starred in seven seasons of The Walking Dead as Sasha Williams. Now she is the current captain on Star Trek: Discovery and is set to take her already iconic character, Michael Burnham, to another level. Her latest
Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy is more than the sum of its parts. So regardless of niggles with individual installments, it’s hard to deny that this is an unusual and bold project for the streaming service and the director of all three, Leigh Janiak. Part three is the most ambitious of the lot, taking us back
Valve has finally revealed its handheld Steam device after months of rumors and speculation. It’s called the Steam Deck and it sounds like it’s much more than just a Nintendo Switch-like handheld device loaded up with Valve’s Steam OS. There’s a lot more going on under the hood of this portable gaming PC. The Steam
IMAGE: Benjamin Snyder (right) and his former PhD adviser, Edward Solomon, a professor of chemistry at Stanford and of photon science at SLAC. view more Credit: Linda A. Cicero A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Leuven in Belgium has further elucidated an intriguing process that could be an important step toward
Scientists have waited months for access to highly accurate protein structure prediction since DeepMind presented remarkable progress in this area at the 2020 Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction, or CASP14, conference. The wait is now over. Researchers at the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle have largely
If you’re anything like most gamers from a certain era, you probably grew up assuming that Zelda and Link were in love. After all, he is a hero, she is a princess, he was a boy, she was a girl…can we make it any more obvious? However, the truth of the matter is that nothing
Hype for The Walking Dead’s eleventh and final season may be slow and incremental, but it has proven revelatory—albeit sneakily. Case in point, an unassuming teaser from last week flashed a blink-and-you-miss-it clue about the show’s introduction of potential key character Elodie, who, in the source material comics, was Michonne’s long-lost daughter. Yet, with Michonne
This article contains some spoilers for Gunpowder Milkshake. You can read our spoiler-free review here. As with all Lena Headey projects, Gunpowder Milkshake gets even better when the actress shows back up. Headey’s assassin single mom Scarlet features in the Netflix’s film opening flashback, which sees Scarlet meeting her teen daughter (played by The Witcher‘s
Menlo Park, Calif. — Electronic circuits that compute and store information contain millions of tiny switches that control the flow of electric current. A deeper understanding of how these tiny switches work could help researchers push the frontiers of modern computing. Now scientists have made the first snapshots of atoms moving inside one of those
By combining oil drops with water containing a detergent-like substance, the scientists found they could produce artificial swimmers that are able to swim independently and even harvest energy to recharge. The oil droplets use fluctuating temperature changes in their surrounding environment to store energy and to swim. When cooled, the droplets release thin ‘tail-like’ threads
IMAGE: Scientists from Japan and Taiwan designed a nanosheet material using iron and benzenehexathiol that made for a high-performance self-powered UV photodetector with a record current stability after 60 days of… view more Credit: Hiroshi Nishihara from Tokyo University of Science Converting light to electricity effectively has been one of the persistent goals of scientists in
IMAGE: Transparent radiative cooler under direct sunlight view more Credit: POSTECH Since the Paris Climate Agreement that took effect in 2016, 121 countries have pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050 as the world tries to reduce its fuel consumption. The Korean government also unveiled its 2050 Carbon Neutral Strategy on December 7, 2020 and declared
To date, there are no effective antidotes against most virus infections. An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a new approach: they engulf and neutralize viruses with nano-capsules tailored from genetic material using the DNA origami method. The strategy has already been tested against hepatitis and adeno-associated viruses
The reveal of Psychonauts 2‘s upcoming invincibility toggle has reignited an increasingly frustrating debate over video game difficulty. In case you missed it, the Xbox team recently sent out a tweet that simply read “Beating the game on the lowest difficulty is still beating the game.” While that tweet proved to be controversial enough with
This article contains Loki episode 6 spoilers, and potential spoilers for the wider MCU. The Loki season finale (and thanks to the mid-credits scene we know it’s a “season finale” not a “series finale,” thank Odin) is here, and it’s got bigger ramifications for the Marvel Cinematic Universe than we ever could have imagined. Loki
After seven books, eight films, a theme park, and the creation of a veritable merchandising empire, you can hardly blame the Harry Potter production team for wanting to go out on a high note with the final installment of the beloved film franchise. But one final mountain loomed ominously before Harry Potter and the Deathly
While The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword received almost universal acclaim when it was first reviewed in 2011, most people now know the game better as arguably the most divisive entry in the Zelda franchise. That’s what makes the release of Skyward Sword HD for Nintendo Switch so fascinating. Nintendo hopes that they can use
After WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier arguably played their final episodes a little too safe, the season finale of Loki is utterly bonkers. Not only does the hunt for the force behind the Time Variance Authority come to its conclusion, but our answers lead to bigger questions and branch off into several
Just when we thought the multiverse shenanigans featured in the latest Loki episode were limited to the MCU, Bethesda decided to start tweeting about Mass Effect and break reality in our own seemingly tidy timeline as well. In case you missed it, the Bethesda Store recently tweeted a promotion for a Mass Effect t-shirt. What
IMAGE: A group of scientists from South Korea develop a novel, multi-directional pressure sensor coupled with a temperature sensor using 3D printing technology that is low-cost and scalable to large-scale production… view more Credit: DGIST The treatment of many medical issues like abnormal gait and muscular disorders require an accurate sensing of applied pressure. In this
IMAGE: In this new, false-color image of a lithium-metal test battery produced by Sandia National Laboratories, high-rate charging and recharging red lithium metal greatly distorts the green separator, creating tan reaction… view more Credit: Katie Jungjohann, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For decades, scientists have tried to make reliable lithium-metal batteries. These high-performance storage cells
IMAGE: Heavy metallic microswimmers, made of rhodium (purple) and gold, swim around in a liquid solution. When confronting a sloped wall, each rod-like swimmer will reorient its body upward due to… view more Credit: Image courtesy of Jun Zhang, NYU’s Courant Institute and NYU’s Department of Physics. A team of scientists has uncovered how heavy, motorized
A Comprehensive Guide to Nanoparticles in Medicine is an ideal resource for scholars in medicine, pharmacology and technology who require an understanding to some basic facets of nanoparticles. The book also covers information about specific nanoparticle conjugates, in which nanoparticles are combined with drugs or nucleic acid strands (DNA, siRNAs, shRNAs, miRNAs) as well as
IMAGE: A close up of tamarind pods, along with pieces of their shell. view more Credit: Credit to NTU Singapore Shells of tamarind, a tropical fruit consumed worldwide, are discarded during food production. As they are bulky, tamarind shells take up a considerable amount of space in landfills where they are disposed as agricultural waste. However,
This article contains Superman & Lois spoilers. Superman & Lois Episode 12 Ever since Morgan Edge was unmasked as a Kryptonian (and not just any Kryptonian, but Superman’s biological half-brother), Superman & Lois has been revealing more and more about the villain’s plan, and by extension exploring the nature vs. nurture debate that has been
The following THE FLASH article contains spoilers through Season 7, Episode 17. The Flash Season 7 Episode 17 Look, as much as it hurts my heart to admit it, The Flash Season 7 has frequently been a bumpy ride. Its storylines have run the gamut from the truly dreadful (anything involving the Forces of Nature)
Warning: contains spoilers for Never Have I Ever series one. In a shareholder letter sent almost exactly one year to the release of Never Have I Ever season two, Netflix singled the Mindy Kaling-Lang Fisher teen show out for praise. Not praise as any human being being might put it, but acknowledgement of the half-hour comedy having “notched success”