A failed experiment? There’s always a chance the detectors won’t find gravitational waves. In 1887, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley designed an ingenious experiment to detect luminiferous aether, a theoretical medium through which electromagnetic and gravitational forces propagated. To detect…

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter programs the most expensive military program in the world, is even more broken than previously thought. The jet can’t tell old parts from new ones, randomly prevents user logins into the logistics information system, and trying to eject out of it will likely result in…

(Reuters) - The National Football League’s Rams left behind more than bitterness when the team ditched St. Louis for Los Angeles last month - it left a stadium saddled with about $144 million in debt and maintenance costs. Taxpayers will now shoulder the remaining payments for the Edward Jones Dome…

See more from the AT&T Archives at http://techchannel.att.com/archives This short subject newsreel was shown in movie theaters the week before a town's or region's telephone exchange was to be converted to dial service. It's extremely short—a little over a minute, like a PSA. The film concisely…

British Prime Minister David Cameron wants to cut migration, and part of the government's plan calls for some foreign workers to leave if they are making less than 35,000 pounds (about $50,000) annually. Ben Pruchnie/Pool/AFP/Getty Images I don't think we should be valued on an arbitrary number that…

Of all the NSA surveillance documents Edward Snowden leaked, some of the most important exposed the spy agency’s so-called XKEYSCORE program, a massive system for vacuuming up and sifting through emails, chats, images, online search activity, usernames and passwords, and other private digital data…

Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg One of the most heated debates among investors is the question of whether corporate profit margins can maintain their elevated level, or whether they will inevitably revert to mean. Here's a quick look at S&P 500-stock index…

George Clooney plays an actor who goes missing in the Coen brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!,” an uproarious exploration of nineteen-fifties Hollywood. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY UNIVERSAL PICTURES / EVERETT Yes, “Hail, Caesar!” is superb, and it was foreseeably so. The first sign that the next Coen brothers movie…

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Bad Loans in China 8 Photos View Slide Show › Beneath the surface of the global financial system lurks a multitrillion-dollar problem that could sap the strength of large economies for years to come. The problem is the giant, stagnant pool of loans that companies and people around the world are…

Nature | News Sharing Elegant experiment confirms that targeting senescent cells could treat age-related diseases. Ewen Callaway Article tools Rights & Permissions Jan Van Deursen Two littermates, almost 2 years old; the mouse on the right had its senescent cells cleared by a drug from 1 year of age…

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Posted by Lucas Ballard, Safe Browsing Team In November , we announced that Safe Browsing would protect you from social engineering attacks - deceptive tactics that try to trick you into doing something dangerous, like installing unwanted software or revealing your personal information (for example,…

STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been subject to ‘arbitrary detention’ during the 3-1/2 years he has spent in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid a rape investigation in Sweden, a U.N. panel will rule on Friday. Assange, who enraged the United States by…

Bob Maresca had just returned from a product launch event in New York when he got the call. His boss and mentor, 83-year-old Amar Bose, had been rushed to Lahey Hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts, and they didn't know whether he'd make it through the night. When Maresca got to the hospital, he…

On Friday, a team of researchers led by Stanford economist Raj Chetty released a paper on how growing up in poverty affects boys and girls differently. Their core finding: Boys who grow up in poor families fare substantially worse in adulthood, in terms of employment and earnings, than girls who…

The militia-patriot movement in America has embraced radio communications in a big way. Within the past decade, the methods and communications gear have evolved from basic CB or FRS radios, to now include VHF-UHF FM, HF SSB, and HF digital communications. This article focuses on some of the radio…

Last week, I read close to a dozen stories on Amazon and Netflix utterly dominating the bidding at Sundance. The analysis has ranged from: This is horrible and short sighted for filmmakers to go for quick cash rather than a traditional box office opening This is some Quentin Tarantino-like revenge…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the falcon wing door on the Model X electric sports-utility vehiclesPhotograph: Liu Yilin/Xinhua Press/Corbis Unimaginable wealth has brought Elon Musk a lot of benefits, from being able to build a private spaceflight company to planning a magnet-powered vacuum tube…

I'm standing with three scientists in a cold, long corridor that smells of hay, meat, and cat piss. We are looking into an empty, roomy cage. A hole in the cage leads to an outdoor enclosure that contains an Asian golden cat—a beautiful labrador-sized feline with rusty red fur. The scientists want…

Editorial No More Exposés in North Carolina Credit Jason Heuer Factory farm operators believe that the less Americans know about what goes on behind their closed doors, the better for the industry. That’s because the animals sent through those factories often endure an unimaginable amount of…

The company that makes the coin and sells replicas has a past it would rather forget. Just before the start of Super Bowl XLII, as he stood on the 50-yard line of the University of Phoenix Stadium in front of 70,101 impatient fans, head referee Mike Carey was nervous. Not about reaching the highest…

Reports by Scottish journalist Duncan Campbell claim the flight, travelling well above the standard aviation height at 45,000 feet and without a filed flight plan, was part of a mission to capture Snowden following his release of documents revealing mass surveillance by US and UK secret services.…

Abstract Causes of the well-documented association between low levels of cognitive functioning and many adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes, poorer physical health and earlier death remain unknown. We used linkage disequilibrium regression and polygenic profile scoring to test for shared genetic…

Remember when Yahoo promised it wouldn't screw it up? Rob Kim / Getty Images The scene at Tumblr's Year In Review 2014 at Brooklyn Night Bazaar. Tumblr hasn't quite lived up to Yahoo's expectations, Yahoo acknowledged on Tuesday. Yahoo, which bought Tumblr in 2013, said it had reduced its valuation…

Illustrations by Mariano Peccinetti When a freak brain hemorrhage struck out of nowhere a couple of years ago, I became a little depressed, stuck in a rut, and strangely fearful of death. So when I heard about people (in my neighborhood, even) using hallucinogens to push beyond their preoccupations,…

Scientists in Germany are poised to conduct a nuclear fusion experiment they hope will advance the quest for a clean and safe form of nuclear power. In a test expected to be attended by Angela Merkel, the chancellor, researchers will inject a tiny amount of hydrogen into a special device and heat it…

Test-tube meat is getting closer to leaving the lab and being served on our plates. Memphis Meats , which grows meat from animal cells, says it hopes to have its animal-free products on the market in three to four years - and has unveiled the first lab-grown meatball to the public. It is one of…

Benson Leung, the Google engineer who moonlights as a tester of dodgy USB Type-C cables , has sadly performed his last act of tech vigilantism—at least for now. When testing a Surjtech 3M USB A-to-C cable, the cable was so bad that it fried his Chromebook Pixel laptop and two USB PD (power delivery)…

As a student at the University of Bristol, Tom Carter became obsessed with a seemingly impossible notion: letting people feel and manipulate virtual objects. A professor turned him on to an esoteric concept—using ultrasound to simulate tactile sensations—that was floated and abandoned back in the…

I n a mere 60 years, we of Earth have gone from launching our first spacecraft, to exploring every planet and major moon in our solar system, to establishing an international, long-lived fleet of robotic spacecraft at the Moon and Mars. What will we do in the next 100 years? With such rapid…

Update – the hovercraft has been saved! The museum has worked with the Homes & Communities Agency to land an initial three-year lease (at peppercorn rent) with the intention of the HCA to hand the craft over completely to the Trust at the end of the 3 years. The news is here In the 1970s, the best…

The distinctive troughs and crests of the human brain are not present in most animals; highly folded brains are seen only in a handful of species, including some primates, dolphins, elephants, and pigs. In humans, folding begins in fetal brains around the 20th week of gestation and is completed only…

A press-release from the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute reaches astonishing heights of hyperbole in announcing a new schizophrenia study (Sekar et al. 2016) . Here’s the release : Genetic study provides first-ever insight into biological origin of schizophrenia Landmark analysis reveals excessive…

Centre Pompidou, Paris/Estate of Alexander Rodchenko/RAO, Moscow/VAGA, New York Alexander Rodchenko: Pioneer Playing a Trumpet , 1930 The infatuation of early twentieth-century Russian avant-garde artists with the Bolshevik regime is a well-known story. Like many romances of unequally matched…

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Hear a Reconstruction That is ‘100% Accurate’