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Based solely on the evidence we have, you get the distinct impression that the double failure of Inhumans remains a point of contention for the otherwise all-conquering Kevin Feige, with the titular team remaining his biggest failure on two fronts. Not only did the planned feature film version become the only Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster to be given a release date that never ended up getting made, but the ill-fated TV show remains the single worst-reviewed project to emerge during Feige’s time at the helm of the…

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists have uncovered new properties in a semiconductor material using a powerful, unconventional technique. Credit: Quardia, Shutterstock.comDiscovery reveals the role of oxygen impurities in semiconductor propertiesA team of researchers investigating the properties of a semiconductor combined with a new thin oxide sheet discovered an unexpected new source of conductivity from oxygen atoms trapped within.Scott Chambers, a materials scientist at the Department of Energy’s Pacific…

After a decade of meticulous measurements, scientists announced Thursday that a fundamental particle – the W boson – has a significantly greater mass than theorized, shaking the foundations of our understanding of how the Universe works.  Those foundations are grounded by the Standard Model of particle physics, which is the best theory scientists have to describe the most basic building blocks of the Universe, and what forces govern them.The W boson governs what is called the weak force, one of the four fundamental…

Scientists studying Neptune's temperature were in for a surprise recently. They discovered unusual temperature variations on the planet. Scientists had not anticipated such a dramatic temperature swing, with the planet becoming chilly during its summer season and then warming up at the south pole. In a statement, Michael Roman, the study's lead author, said that the change was unexpected. “Since we have been observing Neptune during its early southern summer, we expected temperatures to be slowly growing warmer, not…

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