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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.
NASA scientists describe what the rover will be looking for when it arrives on the red planet. More »
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Scientists from Harvard and Caltech announce the creation of a bioengineered, swimming jellyfish made from rat cells. More »
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The plains state is on its way to becoming the capital of the unmanned aerial vehicle industry, and with that comes inevitable difficulties. More »
A bit of software that teaches your fingers a 30-letter pattern, stored in muscle-memory, that you could not consciously recall More »
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Three-quarters of the world population now has access to a mobile phone. More »
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 »
Cold weather has preserved the huts of early South Pole explorers for a century. Now you can visit these time capsules online. More »
As my mother would surely say: He's definitely going to have back problems if he doesn't already. More »
The first light of the beloved app was a picture of, what else, someone's cute dog. More »
Mayer has been at Google since the get-go, but told The New York Times that the switch "was a reasonably easy decision." More »
Our secular endeavor of space exploration is flush with religious observance. Why is that? More »
