Rebecca J. Rosen

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.

'We Took a Rat Apart and Rebuilt It as a Jellyfish'

'We Took a Rat Apart and Rebuilt It as a Jellyfish'

Scientists from Harvard and Caltech announce the creation of a bioengineered, swimming jellyfish made from rat cells. More »

Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online Courses

Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online Courses

Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, and that's probably a good thing. More »

University of North Dakota Offers 4-Year Drone-Piloting Degree

University of North Dakota Offers 4-Year Drone-Piloting Degree

The plains state is on its way to becoming the capital of the unmanned aerial vehicle industry, and with that comes inevitable difficulties. More »

How to Make Your Password So Secret, Even *You* Don't Know It

How to Make Your Password So Secret, Even *You* Don't Know It

A bit of software that teaches your fingers a 30-letter pattern, stored in muscle-memory, that you could not consciously recall More »

Man Lands on the Moon! Live Coverage Today at 4:10 EDT!

Man Lands on the Moon! Live Coverage Today at 4:10 EDT!

Tune in this afternoon for a broadcast of Walter Cronkite's historic coverage -- in real time, just 43 years delayed. More »

Smooth as Water, Strong as Steel: The Undulating Roof of London's Olympic Pool

Smooth as Water, Strong as Steel: The Undulating Roof of London's Olympic Pool

The graceful design of London's Aquatic Center has a backbone of steel weighing more than 3,000 tons, held together with 70,000 bolts. More »

A World With More Phones Than People

A World With More Phones Than People

Three-quarters of the world population now has access to a mobile phone. More »

YouTube Announces Easy Face-Blurring Tool to Protect Anonymity of Video Subjects

YouTube Announces Easy Face-Blurring Tool to Protect Anonymity of Video Subjects

Google's video site responds to a report from human-rights group WITNESS that criticized tech companies for not doing enough to allow protesters to mask their identities. More »

A Visit to the World's Most Remote Antarctic Outposts With Google 'Street' View

A Visit to the World's Most Remote Antarctic Outposts With Google 'Street' View

Cold weather has preserved the huts of early South Pole explorers for a century. Now you can visit these time capsules online. More »

Man, Steve Wozniak Carries a Ton of Random Crap in His Backpack

Man, Steve Wozniak Carries a Ton of Random Crap in His Backpack

As my mother would surely say: He's definitely going to have back problems if he doesn't already. More »

The First Instagram vs. the First Photograph

The First Instagram vs. the First Photograph

The first light of the beloved app was a picture of, what else, someone's cute dog. More »

Google's Marissa Mayer to Take Over as Yahoo Chief

Google's Marissa Mayer to Take Over as Yahoo Chief

Mayer has been at Google since the get-go, but told The New York Times that the switch "was a reasonably easy decision." More »

Communion on the Moon: The Religious Experience in Space

Communion on the Moon: The Religious Experience in Space

Our secular endeavor of space exploration is flush with religious observance. Why is that? More »

This Is Your Brain on a Sweater

This Is Your Brain on a Sweater

London fashion designer Brooke Roberts uses Photoshop and a textile-design software program to knit medical images into high fashion. More »

Russia Passes Law That Will Create a Blacklist for Websites

Russia Passes Law That Will Create a Blacklist for Websites

Critics contend that the law's reach will go far beyond the child-pornography and suicide-promotion sites it is intended to shutter. More »

Scientists Discover an Itty-Bitty Moon Orbiting Pluto

Scientists Discover an Itty-Bitty Moon Orbiting Pluto

Astronomers looking at data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have pinpointed a moon just six to 15 miles across circling the dwarf planet. More »

U.S. Census Bureau's Hated American FactFinder Tool Cost $33.3 Million to Build

U.S. Census Bureau's Hated American FactFinder Tool Cost $33.3 Million to Build

A bargain by any standard. ... Kidding! More »

The Motion-Sensing Gloves That Will Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Words

The Motion-Sensing Gloves That Will Translate Sign Language Into Spoken Words

The winners of Microsoft's Imagine Cup aim to create a device "to solve the language barrier between sign-language users and the rest of the world." More »

Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8 Hours

Gaming Console Ouya Raises $1 Million on Kickstarter in 8 Hours

With the help of nearly 9,000 backers, Ouya reaches and breaks its $950,000 fundraising goal in no time. More »

The Story Behind the First Photograph Ever Posted on the Web

The Story Behind the First Photograph Ever Posted on the Web

Writing at Motherboard, Abraham Riesman tells the tale of"Les Horribles Cernettes," the web's ur-photograph, taken 20 years ago next week. More »

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