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Materials Potassium carbonate (K2CO3, 99%) was purchased from Thermo Fisher Scientific. K2CO3 was kept in a Napco 5831 vacuum oven at 120 °C for at least 24 h to eliminate the residual water. Deuterium oxide (D2O, 99.9%) was purchased from Cambridge Isotope Laboratories and used as received. Iridium wire (0.5 mm, 99.95%) was obtained from Taobao. Ag/AgCl reference electrodes (CHI111) were purchased from …

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David Hayter, the voice of Snake in almost every Metal Gear Solid game, has said he’s forgiven Konami for not casting him in the two titles he was dropped from. Having voiced Snake for 12 years, it was Keifer Sutherland that Konami decided to cast as Venom Snake in both Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes and the main game …

Metal Gear Solid voice actor David Hayter says there’s no longer any hard feelings about the decision to drop him for the fifth game in the series. Hayter was the voice of Solid Snake and Naked Snake in the Metal Gear series, and appeared in eight games – four main series entries, a remake and three handheld spin-offs – before …

We are less than a month away from Apple’s anticipated September 2025 launch, and the latest internal images of the iPhone 17 Pro have leaked out. The images show changes to the design which were previously rumored, and they basically confirm the changes rather than surprise us. If you have not been keeping up, check out what sets this leak …

Alleged images of the iPhone 17 Pro Max’s internal design have surfaced, offering a potential look inside the device before it is announced by Apple next month. The images were shared by the account “yeux1122” this week, in a blog post on the Korean platform Naver. The account aggregates Apple rumors and leaks, so it is likely not the original …

Metal Gear Solid V will be turning 10 in September, but it still stirs up conversation–especially about the fallout between Konami, Hideo Kojima, and longtime Snake voice actor David Hayter. When Hayter was replaced by actor Kiefer Sutherland for MGS5, fans were stunned, and Hayter himself took it hard. Back in 2015, he said playing the game would feel like …

A new hide-and-seek online multiplayer mode called Fox Hunt for Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will have a pretty big drawback: no cross-play support. That means players can’t face off unless they’re on the same platform. The remake of the PlayStation 2 classic is slated for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Konami confirmed the lack of cross-play for …

Scientists have figured out how to make frozen discs of ice self-propel across a patterned metal surface, according to a new paper published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. It’s the latest breakthrough to come out of the Virginia Tech lab of mechanical engineer Jonathan Boreyko. A few years ago, Boreyko’s lab experimentally demonstrated a three-phase Leidenfrost effect …

Light and lifting The researchers then built a few sheets of nanocardboard to test the output of their model. The actual products, primarily made of chromium, aluminum, and aluminum oxide, were incredibly light, weighing only a gram for a square meter of material. When illuminated by a laser or white LED, they generated measurable force on a testing device, provided …