Ms. Freeze (TBA) is recruited for Task Force X in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024), Rocksteady Studios In what can only be described as a desperate attempt to someone to play the much-talked-about game, Rocksteady Studios has confirmed that it will feature a gender-swapped version of a classic DC villain, Suicide Squad: Kill … Read more
Spherical and star-shaped gold nanoparticles (top) and colon cancer cells after approximately five hours of exposure to them (bottom respectively). The photo at the bottom left proves that the cancer cells survived despite the small size of the spherical nanoparticles. False colors. Credit: IFJ PAN Gold particles the size of billionths of a meter are … Read more
The Milky Way is a big place. Within several of its planets lie the remaining clones, creatures ripped from your body that will cause gradual cellular degeneration if you don’t locate and extract the vital fluid before it’s too late. There are only five left, but you don’t know where they are, and there are … Read more
Enlarge / This is an intact phage. A tailocin looks like one with the head cut off. Long before people became interested in killing bacteria, viruses were already at work. Viruses that attack bacteria, called “phages” (short for bacteriophage), were first identified by their ability to create bare spots on the surface of culture plates … Read more
UC Riverside scientists discovered a new termite control method that uses pinene to attract termites to insecticides, providing a non-toxic, cost-effective alternative to traditional fumigation. Credit: Dong-Hwan Choe/UCR UC Riverside scientists have introduced an effective and sustainable termite control strategy using pinene to attract termites to insecticide-treated areas, achieving greater than 95% effectiveness and reducing … Read more