Every supervillain needs a weapon capable of striking fear into their enemies. For Despicable Me’s Felonius Gru (Steve Carrell), that weapon is a freeze ray. We first see it early in Despicable Me, ...
The U.S. Air Force recently awarded a three-year/$750,000 research grant to the University of Virginia’s (UVA) ExSiTE Lab (Experiments and Simulations in Thermal Engineering) to evaluate the prospect ...
A team of scientists led by University of Virginia professor Patrick Hopkins is developing a plasma "freeze ray" that will be less interesting to super villains than to engineers looking for ways to ...