Scientists Just Grew Human Heart Tissue That Beats With Total Autonomy

Coming fresh on the heels of the news that scientists are successfully 3D printing live, working, mini human kidneys, a new report in Nature is giving another burst of hope to the future of organ transplants. For the very first time, a research team has been able to grow human heart tissue that beats totally autonomously in its petri dish home. Read more…        

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Scientists Just Grew Human Heart Tissue That Beats With Total Autonomy

Dinosaur CAT Scan Shows 3 Different Species Are Actually The Same

Cutting edge imaging technology isn’t just helping us tiny humans — it’s helping solve a dinosaur identity crisis. Researchers have developed a brand-new imaging technique that builds a 3D image of a dinosaur skull, creating a CAT scan-style readout. They say this technique proves that what we thought were three separate species of dinosaur are actually the exact same creatures. Read more…        

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Dinosaur CAT Scan Shows 3 Different Species Are Actually The Same

Even Google Reader Replacements Are Shutting Down

When Google Reader finally closed its doors, it shoved thousands of teary-eyed RSS fans into cyberspace, adrift, where we flailed around desperately for a suitable replacement. Many services rose to the challenge , but the incoming wave was a lot to handle. Too much for one of our favorite alternatives—The Old Reader—which is taking a page from Googs and shutting down as well. Read more…        

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Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute

In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute. Read more…        

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SafeMonk Encrypts Your Files Before Sending them to Dropbox

Windows/Mac/iOS/Android: If you’re worried about security in your Dropbox account, but don’t want to go through the extra effort of encrypting everything on your own , SafeMonk is a solution that encrypts your files automatically so you don’t have to think about it. Read more…        

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Google Reader Data Will Be Permanently Deleted on July 15th

You’d have to be in serious denial not to know that Google Reader is officially dead as of this morning. But there has been a certain ambiguity about how long your data would be available after the rapture. No longer. July 15th is the end. Read more…        

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Digital Comics Finally Get Subscriptions and Discounted Collections

This is one of those times when you see the news and think to yourself, Wait, they just got that? Comixology—the biggest digital comics distribution platform and the service that powers the official apps of Marvel, DC, Image, and other publishers— finally has subscriptions . It also got the digital version of graphic novels, finally, for good measure. Read more…        

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Digital Comics Finally Get Subscriptions and Discounted Collections