Picture of the Day: First Supernova Ever Recorded
A new image of a massive supernova, first noticed by astronomers in China nearly 2,000 years ago More »
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.
A new image of a massive supernova, first noticed by astronomers in China nearly 2,000 years ago More »
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The renegade transparency group announces that it is suspending leak publications. Has it run out of more than just money? More »
On its mission to Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took this picture of the cloud bands that encircle Jupiter More »
Integration with Reader, Google's RSS aggregator, could bring better content to the site, and slowly draw users in More »
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An image from the International Space Station shows Atlanta and the surrounding areas at night More »
With fewer than one million customers, C Spire may seem like an odd iPhone carrier, but it reaches places under-served by the bigger companies More »
A quarterly earnings report from The New York Times Company contains a mix of good and bad news for its paywall plan More »
A view of the Grand Canyon from NASA's Terra spacecraft More »
The new technology can provide a real-time video feed of what's going on on the other side of a thick concrete wall More »
One author on Amazon has more than 100,000 books to his name. Who is he? Do these books seem like the work of a human? More »
In visible light, this nebula resembles the continent of North America, but in infrared light, it has a completely different appearance More »
Researchers take an empirical approach to the human processes of collaboration and creation, searching for ways to improve More »
Publishing houses: Hide your children. Amazon is coming to get you. More »
An image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captures the formation of new stars in the Orion nebula More »
Many applications and services that use remote storage have very similar icons -- four circles connected by a flat bottom More »
An image of Carina Nebula, a star-forming region some 7,5000 light years away from Earth More »
Apple's new digital personal assistant is distinctively feminine, just like the disembodied voices of GPS, voicemail, and corporate call centers. More »
An algae bloom off the coast of Michigan, Ohio, and Ontario is the worst in decades, so extensive that it is visible from space More »
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