Picture of the Day: Hubble Marks 22 Years in Orbit With Stunning View of a Star-Forming Region
The region 30 Doradus lies in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, some 170,000 light years away. More »
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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.
The region 30 Doradus lies in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, some 170,000 light years away. More »
The company proposes a new way forward in fixing the mess that is software patents. More »
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a huge coronal mass ejection exploding off the sun's eastern limb yesterday. More »
The Arctic ice is more easily observed from the vantage point of space than from right here on the planet. More »
A photograph from the first floor of Building No. 5 in West Orange, New Jersey, part of what is considered the first industrial research laboratory. More »
A photograph of two women entering the data of the 1940 census into analog computing machines. More »
A cigarette card from the mid 1930s explores what sets a man surrounded by books apart from an analog computing machine. More »
The column of swirling dust was only about 70 meters across but it reached some 12 miles above the ground. More »
An archaeological dig of a cave in South Africa provides evidence of "burning events" 600,000 years older than other conclusive sites. More »
From the New York Public Library's extensive cigarette-card collection comes this little illustration of an early attempt at human flight. More »
Media sites are doubling down on the ways you can customize the news you read. Is that cause for concern? More »
ISS-dwelling astronaut Don Pettit recently tweeted this picture from above the Tasman Sea. More »
A new project called Wikidata aims to automate some aspects of the collaborative encyclopedia. More »
The National Archives has digitized and published online the 72-year-old records of more than 130 million Americans, but finding your family will require a bit of legwork. More »
When viewed from Earth (or Earth's orbit), the galaxy NGC 2683 is at such an angle that it has a saucer-like appearance. More »
Because of the strange distortions of copyright protection, there are twice as many newly published books available on Amazon from 1850 as there are from 1950 More »
A series of satellite images of northern Saudi Arabia show an explosion in desert agriculture over the last two decades. More »
"To love is to return," says writer Robin Sloan. But what are the places we return to online? Help us build an album of sites to love. More »
A film of Steve Mahan driving from his house to a Taco Bell is a powerful example of just how transformative this technology will be for the blind. More »
The expedition had successfully reach the pole two months earlier, but none of team's five members survived the return. More »
