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.

If There Were Life on Mars, Curiosity Wouldn't Find It

If There Were Life on Mars, Curiosity Wouldn't Find It

NASA scientists describe what the rover will be looking for when it arrives on the red planet.  More »

Greenland's 'Extreme Melt Event'

Greenland's 'Extreme Melt Event'

During a five-day period earlier this month, 97 percent of the surface of Greenland's ice sheet thawed. More »

Yes, Google, Do What You Can and Save Us From Wretched Infographics

Yes, Google, Do What You Can and Save Us From Wretched Infographics

Is it possible that the glut of shoddy infographics is the byproduct of Google's algorithm? If so, it's high-time for a change. More »

The Great Sieve: This Is What Browsing Scientific Research Looks Like

The Great Sieve: This Is What Browsing Scientific Research Looks Like

From HTML text, to downloads, to citations, a look at how researchers hone in on the papers they want. More »

A Map of Loss: The AIDS Quilt Goes Online

A Map of Loss: The AIDS Quilt Goes Online

The AIDS quilt is so large that even the National Mall cannot hold it all at once. But the Internet can. More »

Sorry, Kids, Olympic Athletes Did Not Cause Grindr to Crash

Sorry, Kids, Olympic Athletes Did Not Cause Grindr to Crash

Yes, the Olympics athletes are all arriving in London. And, yes, Grindr crashed. But sadly, correlation does not imply causation. More »

What 40 Years Have Wrought: The Earth Since 1972

What 40 Years Have Wrought: The Earth Since 1972

During its 40 years in space, the Landsat program has provided scientists with a clear and sometimes terrifying picture of our changing planet. More »

'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 »

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