Forging

Credit: Skinamarink/Shudder Director Kyle Edward Ball's feature film debut, Skinamarink, achieved unexpected commercial success last year after going viral on TikTok. Hailed by some critics as the best horror film of 2023, or even the scariest of all time, Skinamarink is a work of experimental slow cinema. The film's ambiguous and grainy imagery…

A groundbreaking European-made metal 3D printer has been launched to the International Space Station, marking the first time metal 3D printing will be performed in orbit. This initiative, which leverages a collaboration between ESA and Airbus, aims to demonstrate the potential of in-space manufacturing. Credit: Airbus Defence and Space SASMetal 3D printing will soon take place in orbit for the first time. A pioneering European-made metal 3D printer is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Cygnus NG-20…

On 24 February 2022, Russian tanks entered Ukraine from Belarus. Their goal was to seize Kyiv. Armoured columns moved openly, trundling through a landscape of forest and swamp. The Kremlin assumed a quick victory. The plan came dramatically unstuck in Bucha, a pleasant commuter town 15 miles from the Ukrainian capital.A group of volunteers took to the barricades. They included a musician from an academic orchestra, a family therapist who taught Argentine tango, a recreational hunter and a gas station attendant. Over four…

Last year, Alaska tried something unique.It became the first state to use an election system that placed all candidates on the same ballot, with the four top vote-getters, regardless of party, moving to a runoff where voters ranked their preferences.(Go ahead, impress friends at your holiday barbecue by using the technical terms, blanket ballot and ranked-choice voting.)One purpose of the system, approved by voters in 2020, was to weed out extremists by making it harder for candidates to be elected simply by appealing to…

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and colleagues have successfully developed a “superlattice” of semiconductor quantum dots that can function similarly to a metal. The new material’s conductivity was found to be one million times greater than existing quantum dot displays, while the quantum confinement of individual dots remained. The team predicts significant improvements in quantum dot superlattice capabilities and potential new applications like true all-QD direct electroluminescence devices,…

We sat down with some of the minds behind the next Final Fantasy Making a new Final Fantasy is a big deal. The series has been running for over three decades, and each numerical entry leaves its own mark. Final Fantasy XVI isn’t just a new RPG in a long-running series, but one that has to carry a legacy and forge its own path at the same time. In some ways, then, the creative team that’s been assembled for Final Fantasy XVI makes a good amount of sense. As part of a media preview event for XVI, we got the chance to sit…

| Bleeding Cool scooped the look of the Dawn Of DC, revealing the Free Comic Book Day title for May 2023 for the first time back in November. Today, we expand on that a little with the double-page spread promo from DC Comics for the Dawn Of DC. Featuring a wider spread of characters who will be the focus of the Dawn of DC "yearlong storytelling initiative." As well as the classics of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Titans and Shazam, we also have Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Wonder Girl…

Is happiness elusive to many? It’s a question one often ponders over. In her latest book 3 Tips: The Essentials of Peace, Joy and Success, author-philanthropist Meera Gandhi answers this pertinent question, attempting to give readers tools to cultivate and live a joyful life.“Today’s world is a fast-paced one with unprecedented pressures. The things that calm and centre the human psyche: family, love, touch, kindness, empathy, concern etc are all sacrificed to work and getting ahead in a rat race to make money to…

International humanitarian law—rules that apply during a conflict between nations—state that one can’t attack civilians or civilian infrastructure. That could matter in space too. “You cannot target a civilian object. You can only target military objectives, and then you have to identify what those things are. A hospital or a school is always protected, but a bridge or a communication center might sometimes be military and sometimes civilian,” says Cassandra Steer, an expert on space law and space security at the…