World: We Have Lost the First Webpage; Professor: Oh, I Have a Copy of It Right Here
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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.
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Smiles on the faces of all the astronauts last night as they boarded the International Space Station More »
Sir Edmund Hillary admired John Glenn more for his technical skill and poise than his courage. More »
The story of the scientists and artists who have given us our most beautiful pictures of space More »
A conversation with documentary director Alex Gibney More »
Sea lions and tortoises and finches, oh my More »
Images of volcanoes from space are often kind of disappointing. These, we assure you, are not. More »
Well, this is... unexpected. More »
A gif of the storm from more than 400 miles above gives a sense of the storm's location and scale. More »
The Earth is a dartboard, tornadoes are tiny pins, and the big population centers are -- thankfully -- still quite small. More »
Ours is a planet and a time deeply shaped by one species -- us. More »
And now you can, in a video. More »
Explorers have been searching on foot for Honduras's mythical city for generations. Now, they seem to have found it from a tiny Cessna airplane, aided by million-dollar technology. More »
Is it possible they were too perfect? More »
Watch as Las Vegas booms, the Amazon disappears, and Dubai grows out into the sea. More »
On Sunday, the crew at Antarctica's Concordia bid adieu to the sun, which they won't see again until August. More »
An old folk song reminds us of what it once meant to leave home and never return. More »
The beauty around the Earth coldest, driest, continent provides experiences that "are like touching infinity." More »
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