Physicists have sent a beam of twisted light 3km through the air above Vienna. It is the first time that information has been transmitted outdoors using the "twist" of a visible light beam. This twisting property could allow very fast communication because light with different amounts of twist,…

The New England Journal Of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine takes a look at the leading causes of death in the U.S. from 1900 to 2010. The change is interesting, as is our ever-increasing longevity--something that scientists think may now reverse as a result of the global obesity…

Update: At a media briefing a little after 11:00 a.m. PST/2:00 p.m. EST, Stephan Ulamec, the head of the lander team, said that the data suggests that Philae might have bounced back upward after landing, only to settle back down onto the comet. The team is still in communication with the lander and…

After spending months on revisions, YouTube confirmed today that it will launch a paid subscription service that lets users stream high-quality, ad-free music and music videos. The service, which launches next week in invite-only beta, is to be called YouTube Music Key. "Artists and fans have made…

I was perusing the news headlines this evening and I noticed this article about Glenn Beck’s health troubles . A few sentences early on in the article floored me, because it describes how I feel exactly: “Doctors tell me that up until recently, I hadn’t had a real REM sleep in maybe as long as a…

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U.S. officials are in for a serious grilling on Wednesday as they get hauled before the U.N. Committee against Torture and questioned about about a multitude of ways in which the U.S. appears to be failing to comply with the anti-torture treaty it ratified 20 years ago. As Jamil Dakwar, director of…

Above: Want to blame someone for slow, expensive Internet? Look in the mirror. Image Credit: hobvias sudoneighm I’m going to tell you something about my new life in France. And then you are going to weep. Ready? Our family moved to Toulouse, France in late August after living in the San Francisco…

It's an information superhighway that speeds up interactions between a large, diverse population of individuals. It allows individuals who may be widely separated to communicate and help each other out. But it also allows them to commit new forms of crime. No, we're not talking about the internet,…

Getty Images First, the good news: that unpatchable security flaw in USB devices first brought to light over the summer affects only about half of the things you plug into your USB port. The bad news is it’s nearly impossible to sort out the secure gadgets from the insecure ones without ripping open…

SpaceX , Elon Musk’s startup, is committed to bringing space travel to the masses. Now Musk has also confirmed on Twitter that SpaceX is working on a fleet of “advanced micro-satellites operating in large formations,” which will be officially announced in two to three months. The micro-satellites…

The growing interest in eating healthy can at times have unhealthy consequences. Some doctors and registered dietitians say they are increasingly seeing people whose desire to eat pure or “clean” food—from raw vegans to those who cut out multiple major food sources such as gluten, dairy and…

The Stuxnet cyber-sabotage operation remains one of the favorite discussion subjects of security researchers everywhere. Considered the first known cyber-weapon, Stuxnet targeted the Iranian nuclear program using a subtle and well designed mechanism. For background, see our previous reports on the…

A delivery cart in Beijing passing a billboard promoting Singles’ Day, the biggest shopping day of the year in China. But buying is one thing. Delivery is another. 1 / 7 HANGZHOU, China — It’s the biggest shopping day of the year in China, and the discounts are steep. But Jiang Shan waited to buy…

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Here's what the Sun looks like up close and in motion. James Tyrwhitt-Drake assembled more than 17,000 images taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory to create this beautiful time lapse video of the sun between October 14 and October 30 . The animation shows the sun in the ultraviolet 304…

This article is part of our 2014 fund drive bonus issue ! Read more about Strange Horizons ' funding model, or donate, here . Iain M. Banks 's Culture is one of the most well-known and best-loved science fiction utopias. Beginning in 1987 with Consider Phlebas , Banks published eight (or nine)…

Nato has seen Russian military equipment and Russian combat troops entering Ukraine this week, its top commander Gen Philip Breedlove says. Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg later urged Russia to pull back its forces. Russia's defence ministry denied sending troops to eastern Ukraine to help pro-Russian…

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I was 20 pounds overweight. I was tired all the time. I had stinging back pain. Even though I worked out three days a week, a few hours of spotty exercise couldn't undo the other 10 hours a day I spent hunched over at a laptop. My body was at the breaking point, and so like many of my desk-chained…

I recently invited a top management consultant to give a guest lecture at my course at Copenhagen Business School. I went to sit among the students during the talk. They had been instructed to take notes, since the consultant was to be case material for their exam. Despite this, I watched a student…

539 November 7, 2014 The Leap Most of us go from day to day just coasting on the status quo. If it ain’t broke, why fix it, right? But when routines just get too mundane or systems stop making sense, sometimes you just have to hold your breath…and jump. This week, stories of people who leap from…

President Obama’s privacy oversight panel found that the NSA’s direct-internet filters permit the capture of ‘as many as tens of thousands’ of ‘purely domestic communications’. Illustration: Hisham Almiraat / Global Voices Online / Flickr via Creative Commons N ever underestimate the ability of the…

Hours after President Obama called for the Federal Communications Commission to pass tougher regulations on high-speed Internet providers, the agency’s Democratic chairman told a group of business executives that he was moving in a different direction. Huddled in an FCC conference room Monday with…

A European spacecraft is on course for the first, historic landing on a comet. Scientists have now released the first pictures from the lander after separating from its "mothership", Rosetta. The mission will shine a light on some mysteries surrounding these icy relics from the formation of our…

Jake Browne has written 27 reviews for The Denver Post so far. Credit Matthew Staver for The New York Times DENVER — Jake Browne was seated in a yellow suede chair, carefully rotating a marijuana bud between his fingers. “I’m looking for bugs, mildew, things I wouldn’t want to ingest,” he said,…

by Mike Nagel On Memorial Day weekend, one of the bigger shopping weekends of the year, I stopped by the Collin Creek Mall in Plano, a Dallas suburb. Sitting back about a quarter mile from the highway, the mall has a hundred and thirty stores, over six thousand parking spaces, and more than a…

Maurizio Cattelan, “Untitled” (2001), Mixed Media / Marian Goodman Gallery The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999. White, a thirty-four-year-old production manager at Business Week , working late on a special supplement, had…

Of all my Anonymous subjects, I was closest to the defiant Sabu. Turns out he was closer with the FBI. Gabriella Coleman Nov 10, 2014 Unlisted For six years I have been studying the protest ensemble Anonymous. Some challenges come with the job. By definition, Anonymous is a faceless collective . As…

Elizabeth Hyde Stevens | Make Art Make Money | September 2013 | 17 minutes (4,102 words) In 2011, Longreads highlighted an essay called “Weekend at Kermie’s,” by Elizabeth Hyde Stevens , published by The Awl . Stevens is now back with a new Muppet-inspired Kindle Serial called “Make Art Make Money,”…

A Long Range Anti-Ship Missile prototype, launched by a B-1 bomber, is designed to maneuver without human control. Credit Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may…

Amazon is planning to test its Prime Air delivery drones in the UK. A job ad seeking a flight operations engineer to work in Cambridge was posted last week. This summer Amazon asked the FAA for permission to conduct outdoor drone tests in the US . The Prime Air flight operations engineer will be…

Kim Kardashian’s mobile game, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, has made $43 million since its launch this past June, the company disclosed in its third-quarter earnings report. In fact, the reality star’s game has earned more for the company, Glu Mobile than all their other apps — combined! (If it makes…

Ask the average person what they love the most about the technology they own, and there's a good chance they'll mention a beautiful Apple gadget, a seamless software experience designed by Google, a flashy device from Samsung or any number of fun and cool apps. Microsoft , while certainly not absent…

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Google’s Chromecast allows people to stream content from their mobile phones and tablets onto TVs. Jaime Henry-White/Associated Press Technology companies have taken over your stereo, television and home movies. Now they’re coming for your board games. Google announced Tuesday that is had added…

More than eight hundred fish species are known to hoot, moan, grunt, groan, thump, bark, or otherwise vocalize. Illustration by Kyle T. Webster In 1909, a French doctor named Étienne Lombard discovered something that most people intuitively know: humans raise their voices in noisy environments.…