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.

Google's Look Back on 2012 Will Warm Your Heart, Give You Feelings

Google's Look Back on 2012 Will Warm Your Heart, Give You Feelings

Ah, the memories. And: Whitney Houston! More »

How Science Changes

How Science Changes

An interview with Samuel Arbesman, author of The Half-Life of Facts More »

Google Gives $5 Million to Drone Program That Will Track Poachers

Google Gives $5 Million to Drone Program That Will Track Poachers

If left unchecked, poaching threatens to annihilate some of the world's biggest and most beautiful species. Can UAVs stop the bloodshed? More »

Mount Everest Doesn't Look All That Big When You See It From Space

Mount Everest Doesn't Look All That Big When You See It From Space

The rocky crest of Earth's crust just barely peeks out from the planet around it. More »

40 Years of Blue Marble: 'A New Kind of Self-Awareness'

40 Years of Blue Marble: 'A New Kind of Self-Awareness'

The awareness of our planet's place in the cosmos that we gained from the Blue Marble photo "may well have been the most important reason we went" to the moon. More »

Cleanroom: The Machine That Manufactures Air

Cleanroom: The Machine That Manufactures Air

The story of how one engineer purified air, and made our age of advanced electronics possible. More »

A New Way to Forecast Drought (Just in Time for All Those Climate Change&#8211Induced Droughts)

A New Way to Forecast Drought (Just in Time for All Those Climate Change–Induced Droughts)

Satellite measurements of "plant stress" indicated the arrival of drought a month before the U.S. drought monitor. More »

Black Marble: The Earth at Night Like You've Never Seen It Before

Black Marble: The Earth at Night Like You've Never Seen It Before

“Nothing tells us more about the spread of humans across the Earth than city lights.” More »

Federal Agencies Are Failing to Uphold Obama's Stated Commitment to Transparency

Federal Agencies Are Failing to Uphold Obama's Stated Commitment to Transparency

A new report for the National Security Archive shows the majority of agencies lagging far behind in complying with a 2009 presidential order. More »

Satellite Image: North Korea Prepares for Its Upcoming Rocket Launch

Satellite Image: North Korea Prepares for Its Upcoming Rocket Launch

A glimpse of the Sohae launch facility where North Korea is readying its next satellite-bearing rocket More »

Stupid and Unjust: The Highway Robbery of Prison Phone Rates

Stupid and Unjust: The Highway Robbery of Prison Phone Rates

For nearly 10 years a petition seeking to lower the rates prisoners and their families pay to talk on the phone has languished before the FCC. More »

The First Time Humans Saw the Structure of DNA

The First Time Humans Saw the Structure of DNA

The story of the photograph that revealed the geometry upon which all life is based More »

Ultra Slo-Mo Video: Cheetahs Are the Best Machines

Ultra Slo-Mo Video: Cheetahs Are the Best Machines

Nothing, just nothing, can match the mechanical grace and force of a cheetah running at full speed. More »

What If NASA Could Figure Out the Math of a Workable Warp Drive?

What If NASA Could Figure Out the Math of a Workable Warp Drive?

A new line of research hopes to drastically reduce the amount of energy required for warping space-time, and get us to Alpha Centauri in just two weeks time. More »

Dizzy Hamsters, Cute Kids, and Chivalrous Strangers: The Internet's Best Videos for Warming Your Heart

Dizzy Hamsters, Cute Kids, and Chivalrous Strangers: The Internet's Best Videos for Warming Your Heart

A lively discussion on the social curation site, Reddit, has produced a list of videos that will cheer you up on this rainy day. More »

Moon Rocks From Apollo 11 Are Discovered in Minnesota National Guard Storage Area

Moon Rocks From Apollo 11 Are Discovered in Minnesota National Guard Storage Area

Most of the lunar rocks given away following the Apollo 11 and 17 missions have gone unaccounted for and periodically turn up in weird places. More »

Apple Patents Letters (JK JK)

Apple Patents Letters (JK JK)

The Washington Post's charming book critic goes after Apple for its aggressive patenting. More »

The Lamp That Tells You the Weather by Recreating It

The Lamp That Tells You the Weather by Recreating It

A concept light fixture called Nebula 12 will make clouds to match a stormy weather forecast. More »

How the Only American in Space Will Celebrate Thanksgiving

How the Only American in Space Will Celebrate Thanksgiving

On the one hand, he's got sad dehydrated sweet potatoes. On the other hand, he's got his two best cosmonaut pals. Also, he's in space! More »

The Onion's Pitch-Perfect Parody of Social Media 'Gurus'

The Onion's Pitch-Perfect Parody of Social Media 'Gurus'

"Using your brains to think of an idea and your skills to implement it? That's the old model." More »

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Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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