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NASA Went to Space and All Humans Got Was This Acne Treatment
Earlier this week, researchers from Imperial College London announced that they had developed a way to make dialysis more effective for patients with kidney failure—inspired by, of all things, outer...
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Learning How to Practice Medicine—Virtually
Physicians assistants are highly paid medical professionals who provide a lot of the same healthcare services that doctors do. They take patient histories and perform physical exams, diagnose illnesses...
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It's a Social World After All
Brandon McDermid/ReutersAcross the planet, using the Internet to catch up with friends and family is the main reason people go online. A new survey by Pew Research Center finds that the majority of the...
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The GIF of Gab: The Mundane Politics of Animated Images
During the presidential campaign of 1996, at a televised debate with Bill Clinton, Republican candidate Bob Dole included, in his closing statement, the address of his website. The web was new then,...
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End-of-Day Wrap-Up: 3/23/15
Ted Cruz Is Running for President The freshman Senator kicked off the week with his announcement, making him the first major candidate to declare a White House run. Cruz started his campaign with a...
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On Social Media, Everything Happens All the Time
Chinua Achebe, the celebrated Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart, died at the age of 82 in 2013. But to social media, he only passed away this weekend. People began tweeting condolences (or...
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The Glamorous Life of a Journalist, Sponsored Content Edition
Over the past few weeks I've received emails like the one below almost every day. Hi there, I am just contacting you to see if you would be interested in hosting some third party content on your...
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Why Auroras Are Red on Mars
NASA recently announced a surprising sight from its Martian observatory: An intense aurora had blanketed the planet’s northern hemisphere in a rippling veil of light. Such light shows aren’t uncommon...
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IMDb, but Not Quite
Ah, the infinite wisdom of a search engine. Google anything and you'll get, say, 100 million results in about 0.45 seconds. The magic of the Internet! But that's just step one. Searching for something...
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Why Facebook's Offer to Host News Is So Terrifying
Once, the idea that a reader would find a New York Times story without ever picking up a newspaper might have seemed preposterous. Now, Times stories are everywhere, and the news organization has not...
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Six Standout Startups From This Year's Y Combinator Demo Days
Y Combinator is an accelerator that hosts what are widely considered the most coveted tech startups in the world, and this most recent class is no different. Even with a record 114 startups in its...
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NASA’s Opportunity Rover Completes a Martian Marathon
Only 11 years and two months after it began, NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has completed a marathon across the planet’s barren red desert. The rover made its final roll toward the 26.219-mile mark...
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What Hypoxia Could Do to Pilots
No one knows the cause of the latest airline disaster, the Germanwings crash yesterday in Southern France. As is usually the case after crashes, most first-day speculation is wrong or implausible. Also...
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It's Not Easy Being Scientology
Last year, the BBC reported that a building owned by the Church of Scientology in northeast England was drawing the ire of local residents. The property in Gateshead—purchased in 2007 for £1.5...
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What Elephants and Whales Look Like From Space
When satellite companies talk about the imagery they capture, they play up how you can see big, human-made things: planes and trains and parking lots. Sometimes they might mention, too, how important...
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A Brief History of the ATM
Eyes glaze over when I mention my interest in researching automated teller machines. Yet after I explain why I think they're relevant, many people can easily recall personal anecdotes in which an ATM...
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One Way to Save Print Newspapers: Make Them a Luxury Good
There will eventually come a day when The New York Times ceases to publish stories on newsprint. Exactly when that day will be is a matter of debate. "Sometime in the future, date TBD," the paper's...
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The Curious Case of Men and Women's Buttons
"Are you wearing lady clothes?" Darryl Philbin asked Michael Scott. No, the regional manager of the fictional Dunder Mifflin insisted: His suit fits him, and he is a man, therefore, "at the very least,...
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The Twin Paradox, Astronaut Edition
Today NASA’s Scott Kelly, along with two Russian cosmonauts, blasts off for the International Space Station, where they plan to spend 342 days. Kelly’s identical twin brother Mark, also a (retired)...
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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication on Slack
Slack is a corporate group chatting tool that's become crucial to how many businesses work today, including here at TheAtlantic.com. (The company behind it, also called Slack, is important in its own...
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