We’ve Figured Out the Universe—and It’s Boring
Ideas of the Year 2013
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Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.
It is from this remote city in southern Kazakhstan that humans first sent a satellite, an animal, and a person into orbit. But it didn't get an MRI machine until 2011. More »
Two astronauts chatting about seeing the specialness of Earth's beauty from above. More »
Saltier than sea water and the consistency of "very light maple syrup." Yuck. More »
Valentina Tereshkova flew into space twenty years ahead of the first American woman to do so, Sally Ride. More »
Beautiful, deep view into the Milky Way's core More »
A scene in two parts: triumph and tragedy More »
On July 22, 1941, a 12-year-old girl at Merwedeplein 37 looked on as her neighbor got married. More »
A mystery of the Martian terrain gives way to fantasizing about extreme sports in space. More »
Kafka, not Orwell, can help us understand the problems of digitized mass surveillance, argues legal scholar Daniel J. Solove. More »
Peel back the snow and ice and explore the planet's most remote continent. More »
The Court has failed to develop a robust system for applying the Fourth Amendment meaningfully to the questions of the 21st century. More »
Discovering the tale of a massive 1909 garment-workers strike in New York City's Greenwich Village More »
Meet the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two nearby galaxies. More »
What if we could do the same for humans? More »
Those little hexagon diagrams you studied in chemistry class turn out to be very close representations of the real thing, as new pictures show. More »
An experiment demonstrates that knowledge leads to creativity. More »
In the 20th century, a blight killed of four billion of these towering trees. Now, new research shows that a gene, taken from wheat, provides resistance. More »
