HARWELL, UK (30 March 2021) The Faraday Institution has announced a £22.6m commitment to build on its momentum in four key research challenges: extending battery life, battery modelling, recycling and reuse and solid-state batteries. In doing so, and by strengthening the organisation’s commercialisation team and strategy, it is further focusing on those areas of battery
IMAGE: Eric Decker, professor of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, received two lifetime achievement awards. view more Credit: UMass Amherst Eric Decker, professor of food science, has recently received the two top awards in his field – the American Oil Chemists’ Society’s (AOCS) Supelco/Nicholas Pelick Research Award and the Institute of Food Technologist’s
IMAGE: Schematic illustration of the optical response of a dense atomic medium seen by traditional theories vs. the RG theory view more Credit: ICFO Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon cover, voted the greatest classical rock album of all time, intended to portray the prism and dispersion of light into a rainbow as a certain
IMAGE: (a) Change in sheet resistance (electrical resistivity per unit area of material surface)–an indicator of a superconducting transition–as a function of temperature and magnetic field. (b) Change in critical magnetic… view more Credit: NIMS Superconductivity is known to be easily destroyed by strong magnetic fields. NIMS, Osaka University and Hokkaido University have jointly discovered that
This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 9 The people got what they wanted. Mr. Wilford has retaken control of Snowpiercer, and with every push of a mop or scrub of a rag, the lingering reminders of Andre Layton’s class war disappear. No more anti-Tail graffiti. No more breechmen versus brakemen. Ruth, in
This Snowpiercer review contains spoilers. Snowpiercer Season 2 Episode 10 For the fifth time in the history of the show, the titular train of Snowpiercer finds itself under new ownership. Wilford built the thing, and then Melanie (Jennifer Connelly) stole it. She ran it successfully for 7 years, until it was taken over by Layton
Ever since Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures announced they were building a “MonsterVerse,” this is the fight everyone’s been waiting for: Godzilla vs. Kong. Fire meets fur. As the undisputedly most popular monsters in movie history, King Kong and Godzilla are responsible for the entire idea of a “kaiju versus” film thanks to their first
Some fans thought this day would never come but it’s finally happening: Ewan McGregor is returning to the role of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi in a Disney+ live-action series set 10 years after Revenge of the Sith. That means we’ll meet an older Obi-Wan in exile on Tatooine but not quite the same age as
The DC Extended Universe is in full swing! With a healthy schedule of upcoming DC movies in development, the DCEU isn’t going away anytime soon, and there’s still lots to look forward to. So, it’s time to take a look at all of the DCEU superhero movies that will be released over the next few
After weeks of rumors, Sony has confirmed that they’re closing the PlayStation Store on PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and PSP starting on July 2. While you will still be able to access your digital content on those platforms via certain methods after that day (and download previously purchased items of that date) you will no
IMAGE: MIT engineers have devised a novel technique for imaging biological samples down to a resolution of 9 nanometers. They developed a new type of hydrogel that maintains a more uniform… view more Credit: Ella Maru Studio CAMBRIDGE, MA – Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers have devised a technique for imaging biological samples with
IMAGE: (a) Raster scanning: Trace scanning (red line) and retrace scanning (blue line) of the sample stage, (b) directions of tip scanning relative to sample in trace and retrace scanning processes, (c)… view more Credit: Kanazawa University High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is an imaging technique that can be used for visualizing biological processes, for example
IMAGE: from left: The physicists Gerald Kothleitner (TU Graz), Ulrich Hohenester (Uni Graz) and Georg Haberfehlner (TU Graz), together with French experts, have succeeded for the first time in visualizing temporal… view more Credit: Lunghammer – TU Graz Whether for microscopy, data storage or sensor technology, many advanced technological applications that require specific functions rely on
IMAGE: A transmission electron microscope image shows the interlayer spacing of turbostratic graphene produced at Rice University by flashing carbon black from discarded rubber tires with a jolt of electricity. view more Credit: Tour Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (March 29, 2021) – This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists
IMAGE: The new non-volatile RAM, called ULTRARAM™, is a working implementation of so-called ‘universal memory’, promising all the advantages of DRAM and flash, with none of the drawbacks. view more Credit: Manus Hayne A new type of universal computer memory – ULTRARAM™ – has taken a step closer towards development with a successful experiment by Lancaster
Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells – a discovery which could eventually lead to new treatments for major bone fractures and the repair of lost or damaged bone. Working together, a team of physicists, chemists and tissue engineering experts used
IMAGE: 2021 Protein Society Award Winners view more Credit: The Protein Society The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research, announces the winners of the 2021 Protein Society Awards, which will be conferred at the 35th Anniversary Symposium (virtual), July 7 – 14, 2021. Plenary talks from award recipients will take place
This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 21 Robert Frost wrote in his poem “The Road Not Taken” about two roads diverging in a yellow wood. while the wood Carol and Daryl are walking through in “Diverged” are green, not yellow, the principle is the same. Two long-time friends
Given the title is basically a Schitt pun, it’s perhaps surprising that Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creek is one of the sweetest most nuanced shows around. Written by and starring father and son Eugene and Dan Levy it follows the Rose family, once extremely affluent, now entirely bankrupt after a tax scandal, the only asset they
The Dark Knight is on the verge of losing Gotham, according to writer James Tynion IV, who is kicking off his second year on Batman with his most ambitious story yet, one that is as much the epic tale of an entire city as it is an intimate look at its heroes. Gotham is changing
IMAGE: Contact Lens Technologies of the Future offers one of the most comprehensive reviews of advancements to come, catapulting the commonly-used medical device to applications well beyond refractive error correction, including… view more Credit: Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE) WATERLOO, Ontario, March 29, 2021–A newly-published paper represents one of the most comprehensive reviews of
Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series 6 episode 2 If you’re left with niggling doubts and unchecked hunches after reading our weekly episode review, we can help. Consider the below a communal evidence wall on which to pin mugshots of potentially bent coppers connected by red string and Post-Its scribbled with question marks. Join us
Warning: contains spoilers for Line of Duty series six, episode two. From the Brink’s-Mat Robbery, to predatory sex offender Jimmy Savile, the scripts for police drama Line of Duty are peppered with mention of real-world criminal cases. Blending reality and fiction cements the show’s naturalism and feeds into each series’ themes. Series six revolves around
This Attack on Titan review contains spoilers. Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 16 “There’s much to learn from an enemy.”“Including how to make more enemies.” Attack on Titan treats the Titan serum as one of the most powerful substances that can pollute and transform somebody’s body, but this final (sort of) season proves that
From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad,” featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup. Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything
Warning: contains plot spoilers for The Irregulars episode three Tooth fairy: not real. Baby-stealing bird man: not real. Group of middle class oddballs who dress up in ceremonial robes and practise occult rituals: surprisingly, real. While most of the supernatural cases featured in Netflix’s The Irregulars are drawn from myth and legend, one involves a
What began as a mod called Defense of the Ancients for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos in 2003 has become a multimedia empire for Valve. Dota 2 currently reigns as one of the most popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games on the planet, spawning multi-million-dollar esports tournaments as well as a huge viewership on
This article contains spoilers for the Invincible comic and Amazon Prime series. Thanks to more than a decade of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, post-credit scenes are a matter of course in superhero film and TV properties. They’ve become so pervasive and routine that, at this point, it would take something truly revelatory to shock viewers.
Monster Hunter Rise follows in the footsteps of Monster Hunter World by offering a larger world and other modern improvements, but the game retains one of the franchise’s best features by allowing you to adventure with friends via co-op gameplay. Millions of fans agree that Monster Hunter is just better with friends, and it’s hard
Even in the future, people are idiots, they’re just in spaceships now. “FLOATERS” by Karl Poyzer and Joseph Roberts Connect with the Filmmakers: https://www.instagram.com/karl_poyzer https://www.instagram.com/iamjoeroberts Tweets by Karl_poyzer Tweets by iamjoeroberts More About “FLOATERS” : High in the sky of a sci-fi metropolis a lone spaceship is confronted by a much larger and more intimidating