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.

Picture of the Day: A Close-Up View of a Faraway Galaxy

Picture of the Day: A Close-Up View of a Faraway Galaxy

NASA's Hubble Telescope captures Centaurus A, an elliptical galaxy more than 11 million light years away. More »

Picture of the Day: The Lick Telescope

Picture of the Day: The Lick Telescope

On this day in 1888, the world's largest telescope caught its first light More »

Truth, Lies, and the Internet

Truth, Lies, and the Internet

We are living in a time of better information, quicker fact checks, and endless rebuttals, but the human mind may be immune to the facts the Internet provides More »

Picture of the Day: An Early Version of Morse Code

Picture of the Day: An Early Version of Morse Code

From the Samuel F. B. Morse collection at the Library of Congress, one of the earliest versions of the famous code More »

Picture of the Day: The Center of a Spiral Galaxy

Picture of the Day: The Center of a Spiral Galaxy

The NGC 4151 galaxy 43 million light years away is one of the nearest to contain an actively growing black hole More »

Kepler: The Search for Earth-Like Planets

Kepler: The Search for Earth-Like Planets

NASA named its mission to honor Johannes Kepler, the German astronomer whose birthday would have been today. More »

5 Things We Fear New Technologies Will Replace

5 Things We Fear New Technologies Will Replace

Our love for books, newspapers, and old-fashioned mail makes us worry we may soon see their demise More »

Picture of the Day: An Interstellar Cloud From Our Own Galaxy

Picture of the Day: An Interstellar Cloud From Our Own Galaxy

A mere 1,000 light years away, between the Perseus and Taurus constellations in the night sky, is Barnard 3 More »

The Early Days of E-Cards

The Early Days of E-Cards

In the time before someecards.com and Amazon gift cards, there was "The Electric Postcard." More »

The Internet, Led by Reddit, Wins in the Fight Against Go Daddy

The Internet, Led by Reddit, Wins in the Fight Against Go Daddy

The domain registrar Go Daddy has revoked its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act after a boycott against it began gaining momentum. More »

Pipes for Pipers, Drums for Drummers, and 10 Other Christmas Patents

Pipes for Pipers, Drums for Drummers, and 10 Other Christmas Patents

A little bit of patent fun for the holidays More »

Picture of the Day: Comet Lovejoy From the International Space Station

Picture of the Day: Comet Lovejoy From the International Space Station

Commander Dan Burbank said the comet was "the most amazing thing I have ever seen in space." More »

Steve Jobs Awarded a Posthumous Grammy

Steve Jobs Awarded a Posthumous Grammy

The award is in recognition of the impact the iPod and iTunes store have had on the music industry More »

What Will Remain: The Booksellers Who Will Survive Amazon

What Will Remain: The Booksellers Who Will Survive Amazon

Pictures of independent booksellers from around the world More »

Picture of the Day: Patent for a Fiber-Optic Christmas Tree

Picture of the Day: Patent for a Fiber-Optic Christmas Tree

Because nothing says Merry Christmas like fiber optics More »

12 Awesome Kickstarter Projects You Should Give to for the Holidays

12 Awesome Kickstarter Projects You Should Give to for the Holidays

The sheer quantity of great ideas can make it hard to narrow down where you should donate More »

Picture of the Day: First Global Image From a New NASA Satellite

Picture of the Day: First Global Image From a New NASA Satellite

The first global image from NASA's VIIRS shows what the Earth looked like from 512 miles above on November 24th More »

The Top 5 Most-Watched Science Videos on YouTube in 2011

The Top 5 Most-Watched Science Videos on YouTube in 2011

YouTube broke the bank (or the Internet) with more than one trillion playbacks in 2011. Here are the five most-watched videos about science. More »

The Massive AT&T Lobbying Machine That Couldn't

The Massive AT&T Lobbying Machine That Couldn't

AT&T outspent Sprint by about $13 million in lobbying fees to push its purchase of T-Mobile, but it still lost More »

Are We Reaching Peak Internet Growth?

Are We Reaching Peak Internet Growth?

In developed countries, the number of people online is growing slowly, and possibly even declining in the United Kingdrom More »

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