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Real-time video recording an 8×6-inch stretch of structural color pattern featuring a wreath in homage to the work of 19th century physicist Gabriel Lippmann. Real-time video recording an 8×6-inch stretch of structural color pattern featuring a wreath in homage to the work of 19th century physicist Gabriel Lippmann. The bright colors in butterfly wings or beetle shells come not from any pigment molecules, but from how they are structured—a naturally occurring example of what physicists call photonic crystals. Scientists can manufacture their own structurally colored materials in the laboratory, but it can be a challenge to scale up the process for commercial applications without compromising optical precision. Now MIT scientists have adapted 19th-century holographic photography techniques to develop a chameleon-like film that changes color when stretched. This method can be easily scaled while maintaining nanoscale optical precision. They describe their work in ...

Kevin Bacon looks back lovingly as he spent filming the hit film Footloose, nearly 40 years after putting on his dance shoes for the role of Ren McCormack. In an interview at Today The musical’s main cast also admired its longevity, and how it was able to garner new fans over the past four decades. ‘I like it. I think that’s great,’ he told co-host Willie Geist, adding, ‘It’s like all the things you think, ‘Oh my gosh, is it going to go away?’ At some point, you have to embrace the beast.’ Scroll down to video Classic: Kevin Bacon, 64, looks back on the time he spent filming the hit film Footloose, nearly 40 years after the release of the musical Bacon, 64, went on to add what a ‘what a gift it is to be a part of that film. I certainly take it very seriously when I do it and I love that people will still come and say they’re just showing it to their kids.’ The Philadelphia native also credits the film...

If you watch the film China One Second on a streaming platform, you won’t see credit to the author whose book inspired the film. That’s because Chinese authorities have managed to remove any mention of the globally renowned Chinese-American writer Yan Geling, both in China and abroad. The film — directed by renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou — is available in Australia from platforms including Prime Video, Google Play and Apple TV. “I can understand if you don’t want to include my name because censorship doesn’t allow it in China,” Yan told the ABC from his home in Berlin. “However, this kind of practice is not acceptable abroad. The initial and life spirit of a work is given by the original author.” Director Zhang Yimou directed the opening ceremonies for the 2008 and 2022 Beijing Olympics. ( Reuters: Christina Charisius ) Born in Shanghai into a family of artists, Yan – a prolific book writer and screenwriter who has won more than 3...

Neighboring star Ryan Moloney has revealed that he is eyeing acting roles again after shifting his focus to a career in construction. In an interview with Mark Dolan on GB News last night, Ryan, 42, who has played Jarrod ‘Toadfish’ Rebecchi on soap operas since 1995, said that after the success of this week’s finale, he was again considering working on a large and small scale. screen. ‘I want to do more acting and more TV and movies. I want to come to England and try one of your plays. It would be really special’ he said. Neighboring star Ryan Moloney (pictured) has revealed that he is eyeing acting roles again after shifting his focus to a career in construction. Ryan explained: ‘I just didn’t say no to anything and in the meantime I was doing civil construction. ‘I’m about to start doing civil construction and have to do what every little kid dreams of and learn how to drive a truck and excavator and dig a big hole, so thi...

Plain text size Larger text size Text size is very large Spending an afternoon with writer-director John Michael McDonagh and his editor-producer partner Lizzie Eves, you learn a few things. First, they’re great friends, his down-to-earth Aussie no-bullshit vibe is the perfect foil for his London bluff. Second, they’re big fans of drinking days. I met the couple in Sydney’s Verona cinema foyer, the day before they flew back to London after their annual visit to Australia (they spend three months here each year, mostly on the Sunshine Coast, where Eves has family). Over a beer, McDonagh told me that while they were editing their new film Forgivable at home during lockdown, “we’ll start drinking in the middle of the day and then we’ll start arguing”. “The cat’s coming around three o’clock,” Eves said, sipping a glass of white wine. “We would scream at each other and the cat would scream at us and we would scream at the...

Water boils a lot – whether it’s a cup of tea brewed in the kitchen or a power station that generates electricity. Any increase in the efficiency of this process will have a major impact on the overall amount of energy used for it each day. One such improvement could come with newly developed treatments for surfaces involved in heating and evaporating water. The treatment improves the two main parameters that determine the boiling process: heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and critical heat flux (CHF). Most of the time, there is a trade-off between the two – when one improves, the other worsens. After years of investigation, the research term behind this technique has found a way to improve both. “Both parameters are important, but raising the two parameters together is a bit tricky because they have an intrinsic trade-off,” said bioinformatics scientist Youngsup Song of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. “If we have a lot of bubbles on the...