- Natasha Vita-More’s Alcor team published “Persistence of long-term memory in vitrified and revived C. elegans” in Rejuvenation Research, showing 60–70 % of vitrified embryos retain memory after −205 °C storage and rewarming.  
- A rabbit kidney was vitrified, cooled to −135 °C, rewarmed, re-transplanted, and sustained the animal indefinitely as its sole functioning kidney—cited as the largest organ vitrification success to date.  
- Mouse ovaries, complete fruit-fly embryos, and parasitic helminths have also survived liquid-nitrogen vitrification with ethylene glycol or DMSO, demonstrating feasibility for organ and embryo cryopreservation.  
- SNPs rs2283265 and rs1800497 in the DRD2 dopamine-receptor gene are significantly associated with larger working-memory gains after cognitive training; additional polymorphisms in DAT1, DRD4, COMT, BDNF, and MAOA were screened.  
- IndieBio San Francisco Demo Day (11 June 2015) will showcase new synthetic-biology startups at 485 Jessie Street.  
- WebTorrent brings BitTorrent to browsers via WebRTC, enabling JavaScript-only torrent clients, though compatibility with classic clients is still pending.  
- “Tail risk constraints and entropy maximization” paper outlines a barbell portfolio strategy that maximizes expected log-return under extreme-risk bounds.  
- Endgame: Singularity, the open-source AI-escape game, now has an iPad version; its full soundtrack was linked in discussion.  
- Folklorists’ Aarne–Thompson tale-type index was proposed as a lens for analyzing narrative structures in video games and social media.