You’re looking at a rabbit’s heart beating outside the animal that once hosted it. It’s alive, pumping blood on its own thanks to a revolutionary electronic membrane that may save your life by keeping your heart beating at a perfect rate. Read more…
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Revolutionary membrane can keep your heart beating perfectly forever
Re/code reports the claims of industry sources who say Amazon is in talks to create a streaming music service that it would bundle with Prime subscriptions. The report makes a lot of sense, and if true, it would make Amazon Prime and even better deal than it already is. Think how amazing that would be! Read more…
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Report: Amazon Is Gearing Up to Add Free Streaming Music to Prime
Curiosity’s aluminum wheels have taken a beating since starting its Martian mission back in August 2012. Now, in an effort to preserve them, NASA instructed the rover to drive nearly 330 feet (100 meters) in reverse — it’s longest advance in three months. Read more…
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The Curiosity Rover is driving in reverse to protect its dented wheels
An amateur archaeologist — or more accurately, an opportunistic ass-wipe with a metal detector — recently uncovered a treasure trove of gold and silver artifacts in Germany. But he was promptly caught after trying to sell the rare items on the black market. Read more…
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Looter caught trying to sell a hoard of Roman gold and silver
In 2011-12, the VFX company Rhythm & Hues created the astounding effects for Ang Lee’s gorgeous movie The Life of Pi . Then they went bankrupt, fired their staff, and went out of business. Two weeks later they won an Oscar. The new documentary Life After Pi shows how this insanity was made possible. Read more…
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Learn how Hollywood screwed over the VFX industry in Life After Pi
We still know almost nothing about the first live-action Star Wars movie in a decade, but now we may have gotten a glimpse at one of the movie’s big special-effects sequences. A redesigned Lucasfilm website includes a photo of a production meeting, where you can glimpse some concept art. Read more…
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First Concept Art of the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars: Episode VII?
Why sleep listening to white noise or ocean sounds, when you could hear the Starship Enterprise in flight? Or the interior of the TARDIS? Read more…
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Go to sleep while listening to comforting starship engine sounds
J.R.R. Tolkien’s hand-drawn maps of Middle Earth have long fueled readers’ imaginations about the land of Hobbits, wizards, and Elves, and a group of fantasy cartographers are imagining what the world’s terrain might look like in 3D. Read more…
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What would Middle Earth look like from space?
Lego bricks are generally awesome, and by all accounts The Lego Movi e, opening this weekend, is as well. So we thought we’d make sure the folks at Lego didn’t get too full of themselves by reminding the world of the worst toys, figures and building sets they’ve unleashed upon the world. Warning: Construction ahead. Read more…
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The 16 Most Awful Lego Sets Ever Assembled
In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , researchers recount the fascinating case of an electrician who, after sustaining a 14, 000-volt shock to his left shoulder , presented with “bilateral stellate anterior subcapsular opacities of the lens.” Translation: Starburst-shaped cataracts. Read more…
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A 14,000-volt electrical shock gave this man star-shaped cataracts