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.
In the 1960s, a house in Houston caught on fire. In the aftermath, a set of 12 scrapbooks were discovered. They depicted a society, the Sonora Aero Club, that had all but disappeared from history, if it was ever there at all. More »
The official position remains that the spacecraft has not yet crossed over into interstellar space More »
It's just like hiking up Mount Everest -- minus the hiking part. More »
Scientists have sequenced a line of HeLa cells, and found them to be "a mess." More »
But the deeper aspects of your personality remain hard to detect. More »
At the beginning of every Daily Show episode, the Earth spins in the wrong direction, a situation that would have dramatic consequences for life on Earth. More »
Ever been bankrupt? Expecting a child? A whole lot of information about who you are -- and what kind of consumer you are -- is for sale. More »
A team of researchers has for the first time found a side effect of a common drug combination by looking at search queries. More »
In a celebration of Sesame Street's YouTube channel getting to its one billionth view, the Count sings a song with some faulty math. More »
Transporting large quantities information has always been a challenge, including when that information was astrological tables and your medium was vellum. More »
When applied to high-quality images of nature, GIFs lose their head-ache inducing flashiness, and become sublime. More »
And why does it always seem to happen in Florida? More »
Radiolab and the American Museum of Natural History are crowdsourcing suggestions for what to call a species that lived some 65 million years ago, and from which all humans are descended. More »
By dramatizing subtle changes, new software makes it possible to see motions that are normally imperceptible to us. More »
The designers of a low-dead-space syringe hope that their innovation could hamper the disease's spread among the estimated 15.9 million people who inject drugs worldwide. More »
Monitoring stations normally used to keep tabs on the nuclear tests of regimes like North Korea's captured the arrival of a rock from outer space. More »
A conversation with the author of 'The Fault in Our Stars,' this month's 1book140 selection. More »
What does it really mean when we say last week's meteor delivered a force 30 times the size of the Hiroshima bomb? More »
