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Despite widespread clinical applications in drug delivery, biosensing, and tissue modulation—think pacemakers, glucose monitors, cochlear implants, electro-pharmaceutical therapies—bioelectronic devices tend to be rigid, power-inefficient, and mechanically and chemically invasive to living cells. Traditional materials like platinum, iridium oxide or titanium nitride tend to be bulky. Polymer-based materials can become electrochemically unstable on repeated use. While coating surfaces with carbon nanomaterials can reduce help, it can add to the bulkiness of devices, and also cause in vivo complications.To surmount these shortcomings, researchers at the Tian Research Lab at the University of Chicago have been working on a carbon-based nanomaterial that is...

What makes a ref cake appealing is that you only need a few ingredients to make an easy dessert. Few desserts require less effort and fewer ingredients than a simple ref cake. Honestly, you just need three main ingredients to make it: • all-purpose cream • sweetened condensed milk • graham crackers   If you have these three, you're ready to make a ref cake. Here's how to make one plus ideas on how to level it up:  1 Chill your ingredients the night before.  The most important thing you can do when making a ref cake is to chill your all-purpose cream. This is the binder of the...

A global pandemic might have delayed the onslaught of comic book films, but that’s a tide that could only be held back for so long. Between now and the end of next year, there are 15 major comic book-related releases coming to theaters. Due to the aforementioned global pandemic, the release dates are still a little…Read more...

Chaosium President Rick Meints shares stories from a life-time as a collector of all things Chaosium.Steve Perrin's unexpected passing has gotten me to thinking about his far-reaching legacy within the world of role-playing games. As I ponder his role in those early days I find myself pulling various books off of my shelves and rereading the contents of some quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore. It feels like catching up with old friends. Here's one such story from the golden age of RPGs.Between Christmas and New Years Eve of 1977, TSR released its first hardcover 112-page RPG book, the Monster Manual...

Those of us old enough may remember the heyday of the text adventure game genre from the first time around. London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering company producing titles for the first Amiga and Atari ST platforms. Fast-forward to 2017 and [Hugh Steers], the original co-founder and core developer for Magnetic Scrolls has formed an initiative to revive and re-release the original games on modern platforms. Since the 1980s-era DEC MicroVAX used originally for development is not particularly rare in retro computing circles, and media containing source code was found in someone’s loft space, reviving the games was not...