Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees the Health channel. A former media aggregator for Slate, he has also worked for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Texas Monthly and other publications.

How the Life-Saving Blue Blood of Horseshoe Crabs Is Extracted

How the Life-Saving Blue Blood of Horseshoe Crabs Is Extracted

Inside of the primitive-looking Horseshoe crab is a powder-blue blood that contains LAL, an element worth about $15,000 per quart More »

Infographic: How Does a Hybrid Car Engine Actually Work?

Infographic: How Does a Hybrid Car Engine Actually Work?

Find out just what it is going on inside of the third-generation Toyota Prius that allows it to get great gas mileage, on the highway and off More »

Picture of the Day: Looking Through SOFIA's 100-Inch Mirror

Picture of the Day: Looking Through SOFIA's 100-Inch Mirror

Reflected in the telescope's primary mirror is the NASA logo painted on the outside of a building at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility More »

Video of the Day: DARPA's First Crowdsourced War Machine

Video of the Day: DARPA's First Crowdsourced War Machine

In just under fourteen weeks, Local Motors built a working prototype of the winning concept from an experiment to crowdsource design More »

As MySpace Sells for $35 Million, a History of the Network's Valuation

As MySpace Sells for $35 Million, a History of the Network's Valuation

News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch has finally decided to unload MySpace, selling the property for just six percent of what he paid in 2005 More »

Here's Why Apple Should Offer Free iPhones This September

Here's Why Apple Should Offer Free iPhones This September

Subsidizing the 3GS would bring in those consumers who have contracts, but have always opted for the free option over a smartphone More »

Video of the Day: NASA Successfully Tests Robotic Hover Lander

Video of the Day: NASA Successfully Tests Robotic Hover Lander

The Robotic Lander Development Project at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center hopes to make trips to hostile environments pilot-free More »

Picture of the Day: NASA Captures a Huge Phytoplankton Bloom

Picture of the Day: NASA Captures a Huge Phytoplankton Bloom

The aptly named Aqua, part of the Earth Observing System, orbits our planet to study evaporation, precipitation and cycling of water More »

Infographic: LinkedIn Finds Men Best at Leveraging Social Networks

Infographic: LinkedIn Finds Men Best at Leveraging Social Networks

Though men beat out women in leveraging their social networks overall, there are still some industries where females dominate men More »

Groupon Subsidiary Accidentally Leaks User Password Database

Groupon Subsidiary Accidentally Leaks User Password Database

All 300,000 users of the company's India-based subsidiary, SoSasta, received a message urging them to quickly change their passwords More »

HardlyWork.in Turns Your Facebook News Feed Into a Spreadsheet

HardlyWork.in Turns Your Facebook News Feed Into a Spreadsheet

Sitting in the office all day, I sometimes get the urge to just spend a minute or two checking my Facebook. But it feels unprofessional, and I'd be mortified if the boss -- or even one of my coworkers -- called me out for it. What can I do? More »

Yahoo Should Buy Hulu if Only to Push Out CEO Carol Bartz

Yahoo Should Buy Hulu if Only to Push Out CEO Carol Bartz

Brought in on a four-year contract to save the once-great Internet giant, Bartz has proven to be anything but an innovative executive More »

Infographic: Third-Party Mobile Twitter Clients by the Numbers

Infographic: Third-Party Mobile Twitter Clients by the Numbers

If you're not on an unlimited data plan for your smartphone, Twitter's client will cost you more than twice as much as TweetDeck to use More »

Video of the Day: An Abandoned Rocket Factory in the Everglades

Video of the Day: An Abandoned Rocket Factory in the Everglades

Aerojet-General, with its solid-fuel rockets tested in Florida, never signed a contract to provide NASA with lift for the Apollo missions More »

Picture of the Day: Mariner 4's First Close-Range Image of Mars

Picture of the Day: Mariner 4's First Close-Range Image of Mars

Too anxious to wait for official images, NASA employees assembled thin strips printed by a "real-time data translator" machine More »

Facebook Is Quietly Testing First Major Redesign in Over a Year

Facebook Is Quietly Testing First Major Redesign in Over a Year

Ever since it debuted as TheFacebook in early 2004, the world's largest social network has undergone design changes both big and small More »

Buy and Sell Virtual Marijuana With New 'Weeds' Facebook Game

Buy and Sell Virtual Marijuana With New 'Weeds' Facebook Game

Producers of Showtime's Weeds have partnered with Marc Ecko to build a digital platform that could eventually alter the show's story More »

Meet 2011 MD, the Asteroid That Just Missed Earth Two Hours Ago

Meet 2011 MD, the Asteroid That Just Missed Earth Two Hours Ago

Discovered just five days ago by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Project, 2011 MD was first dismissed as a ball of space junk More »

Wikipedia Adds WikiLove Button in Attempt to Stem Criticism

Wikipedia Adds WikiLove Button in Attempt to Stem Criticism

With enough work, this could become a model for other gentle social tools, but as it stands, it's closer to spam than anything else More »

Video of the Day: Seagull Steals GoPro Camera, Tours Cannes

Video of the Day: Seagull Steals GoPro Camera, Tours Cannes

YouTube user opica1983 claims he left his camera on the ground where it was promptly snatched and taken for a joy ride over the city More »

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