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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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The postponement of a massive experiment is a chance to think about what would happen if we had the power to control the weather More »
A New York Times op-ed purports to prove that people "love" their iPhones because of some activity seen in the brain More »
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A competition sponsored by Google in southern California is looking for ways to reduce the emissions from air travel More »
The third and final week of our Tech202 report looks at the cloud -- our storage locker on the Internet More »
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One of the world's most iconic buildings leads the way in making a host of small changes to reduce energy consumption More »
Some photographs from the start of engineers' efforts to get a better sense of the damage to the monument post-earthquake More »
A photograph from 1949 shows an analog computing machine at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory More »
A software billionaire and his monumental task: create a database of the more than one billion people living in India More »
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A two-decade old picture shows the satellite that is expected to crash down from the skies at some point today More »
NASA's Planetary Protection Officer Catharine A. Conley says that we've already contaminated the Red Planet with organisms from Earth More »
The last decade has seen many social-networking sites rise and fall like little empires. Will Facebook follow, or is it here to stay? More »
A photograph from the Cassini spacecraft captures a quintet of Saturn's moons, arrayed around the planet's rings More »
The Atlantic teams up with the Sunlight Foundation to provide real-time analysis of the events on Capitol Hill More »
