IMAGE: Paul Thibado, professor of physics, holds prototype energy-harvesting chips. view more Credit: Russell Cothren, University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene’s thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current. “An energy-harvesting circuit based on graphene could be incorporated into
Black, the comic sensation that depicts a world where only Black people have superpowers, that started as a thoroughly supported Kickstarter and grew into a franchise, just took another step closer to jumping mediums. Studio 8, the entertainment company developing the film version of the comic, announced that Black has been picked up by Warner
This The Queen’s Gambit review contains no spoilers. Did you know that a chess game can run so long that it gets adjourned? The player whose turn it is records their next move in a sealed envelope so that when both opponents next sit down, refreshed, they can proceed as if play has been unbroken.
According to a 2019 YouGov poll, 14% of Americans have a zombie apocalypse plan of some sort. Even the CDC provides zombie apocalypse advice, including having one gallon of water per person per day, stocking up on food, and choosing a rallying point for family members should everyone get separated in the mad rush for
It’s understandable for any series, let alone one like South Park, to develop a level of cynicism when it’s been on for over two decades. South Park has turned out numerous episodes like “Cancelled,” “You’re Getting Old,” and “Unfulfilled” that have all looked at the growing pains of not just South Park, but also its
It’s a great time to be a horror fan. Not only are Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder awash with all kinds of horror movies old and new, but the Criterion Channel is getting in on the gruesome action with a month’s worth of horror titles from the 1970s. The subscription service is the
So much of the final season of The 100 pivoted around the concept of Transcendence. Indeed, Bellamy Blake died for it, as did many others. So what is it, and what did it mean for the series finale of The 100? We break down what we know and what we wish we understood better, as
Nanoparticles are used in a wide range of products and manufacturing processes because the properties of a material can change dramatically when the material comes down in nano-form. They can be used, for example, to purify wastewater and to transport medicine around the body. They are also added to, for example, socks, pillows, mattresses, phone
Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have developed precise radiation sources that may replace the expensive and cumbersome facilities currently used for such tasks. The suggested apparatus produces controlled radiation with a narrow spectrum that can be tuned with high resolution, at a relatively low energy investment. The findings are likely to
Brothers and Sisters and Alikona uses her sexy voice! Oliver is trying to get to know his new sister, and Felecity is trying to kill Diaz–if Laurel will let her! Alkona, Olivia and Matt had a great time with this episode. Tea was spilt…literally. Matt actually spit out his tea. RSS Feed: http://afterbuzztv.com/aftershows/arrow-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ ABOUT ARROW:
This The 100 article contains MAJOR spoilers for the ending of the series. Who had “Most of Humanity Will Turn Into Groot-Shaped Beings of Energy?” on The 100 series finale Bingo card? If so, you guessed it! The CW series has finally come to an end and, after seven seasons, showrunner (and episode director) Jason
The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the The 100 series finale. There are several surprising moments during The 100 Season 7 finale, from Emori’s death to Octavia’s last-minute pep talk that stops humanity from killing itself, to the judgment that Clarke Griffin is be doomed to spend the rest of her days alone because she
This THE 100 review contains spoilers The 100 Season 7 Episode 16 Ultimately, The 100 turned in a series finale that’s better than the back half of its final season, but not by a whole lot. The use of two fan-favorite characters (Lexa and Abby), and a last-minute twist, are responsible for much of the emotionally satisfying
IMAGE: An illustration of the new concept’s experimental setup view more Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Communications in space demand the most sensitive receivers possible for maximum reach, while also requiring high bit-rate operations. A novel concept for laser-beam based communications, using an almost noiseless optical preamplifier in the receiver, was recently demonstrated by researchers
It’s been months since Dr. Harleen Quinzel began interviewing criminals at Arkham Asylum, and she’s having strange dreams about one of them in particular: The Joker. What starts off as nightmares will soon evolve into fantasies. Despite warnings from the Dark Knight himself, she’s utterly fascinated by this man who seems the perfect expression of
Conan the Barbarian is coming to Netflix…and we don’t mean its movie archive! Rather, the streaming giant is moving forward with a live-action television series adapting the swords, sorcery and loincloths-laden mythos created by Robert E. Howard, famously depicted as comic book art from Barry Windsor-Smith and cemented in history as portrayed onscreen by Arnold
October is here and you know what that means: time for the streaming services to put their spookiest foot forward. Amazon is doing its part for its new releases in October 2020 by rolling out some horror originals and library titles. This is the month that the much-hyped Blumhouse horror anthology series Welcome to the
Insomniac has revealed new details about Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, and the biggest news may just be that the extent of the remaster’s visual upgrades required the studio to recast Peter Parker’s actor. “In order to bring the best performances to players with our next-generation Marvel’s Spider-Man games, we have recast the face of Peter Parker,”
IMAGE: Schematics of the device, which consists of a graphene Josephson junction, which is integrated into a microwave circuit. view more Credit: harvard-icfo-mit-bbntechnologies-nims Bolometers are devices that measure the power of incident electromagnetic radiation thru the heating of materials, which exhibit a temperature-electric resistance dependence. These instruments are among the most sensitive detectors so far used
IMAGE: Sevda Abadpour and Axel Diewald from KIT’s Institute of Radio Frequency Engineering and Electronics (IHE) place a chip onto a board. Components in the micrometer range have to be aligned… view more Credit: Photo: Joachim Hebeler, KIT Radar systems have long been used on aircraft or ships. Now, they are increasingly applied in cars for
IMAGE: The multi-stack of CQDs of different size are built on top of a flexible plastic substrate that is later deposited onto a commercial visible LED to produce broadband IR light…. view more Credit: ©ICFO Broadband light emission in the infrared has proven to be of paramount importance for a large range of applications that include
IMAGE: Illustration of a PEC model system with 20-nanometer gold nanoparticles attached to titanium dioxide. view more Credit: Berkeley Lab In the search for clean energy alternatives to fossil fuels, one promising solution relies on photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells – water-splitting, artificial-photosynthesis devices that turn sunlight and water into solar fuels such as hydrogen. In just a
IMAGE: Near-field scanning microscope image of nanocircuits “written ” into a 2D device made of boron nitride and graphene. view more Credit: Alex Zettl/Berkeley Lab An Innovative Pattern: Scientists Rewrite Rules for 2D Electronics By Theresa Duque A research team led by Alex Zettl, senior faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division and professor of
Sound the alarm! It’s the commencement of the annual Purge, with episode one of The Purge aftershow on Afterbuzz TV! Hosts Ty Matthews, Danny Royce, Jaimi Gray and Ollie Drennan will be breaking down the premiere of the brand-new Purge mini-series, including news, gossip, predictions, survival tips, and so much more! Just remember how much
Going into Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna I was apprehensive. The previous installment in the Digimon Adventure series, the six tri. movies, crashed and burned so badly it killed any enthusiasm I had for that original Adventure continuity. Starting off with so much potential they quickly devolved into awkward fan service (of all kinds), bad pacing,
There is a moment that I will always treasure in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and it may not be one that immediately springs to your mind. It’s not when Borat goes into an American religious community, nor is it when he wrestles his husky sidekick in the
Although AMC’s flagship zombie drama is in its endgame now, it hardly feels like a true ending for The Walking Dead universe. After all, the 11th and final season of the series will make way for a few other zombie projects to rise from the dead. One of these new projects is a spinoff starring
IMAGE: Researchers have registered the formation of silver nanoparticles in an ion-exchanged glass as a result of infrared laser irradiation. view more Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with colleagues from the Alferov University, Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering RAS and University
IMAGE: Similarities Emerging from Disorder: Disordered molecular structures of artificial light-harvesting complexes produce well-defined optical properties view more Credit: Ilias Patmanidis and Misha Pchenitchnikov Scientists typically prefer to work with ordered systems. However, a diverse team of physicists and biophysicists from the University of Groningen found that individual light-harvesting nanotubes with disordered molecular structures still transport
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings television series is, at long last, making its post-COVID comeback, with production having reportedly resumed after the purportedly billion-dollar-budgeted small screen project became just another name on the list of pandemic-pushed shutdowns this past March. The currently-untitled Amazon series, based on the mythology of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth literary