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Bioluminescence in a Bottle
Kevin Key / ShutterstockIf you’ve ever wanted to bottle the magic of the ocean and dance around with it as though it were a glowstick, you’re in luck.A company called BioPop is designing a line of...
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The Mason Jar, Reborn
Eric Kilby / FlickrIn the mid-1970s, my parents fled the New Jersey suburbs to build a house in rural New Hampshire, where my mother tended a large vegetable and herb garden. The growing season in New...
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Could a Bank Deny Your Loan Based on Your Facebook Friends?
The new loan-approval stamp? Denis Dervisevic / FlickrIt seemed straight out of the evil-tech-company playbook.In August, Facebook secured an otherwise innocuous U.S. patent about how to analyze a...
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The 3-D View of Swimming Through the Sky
From my Cirrus pilots’ bulletin board, this delightful video, from professional pilot and flight instructor Caitlin Farley, of an approach to the Mountain Air airport in North Carolina in a Cirrus...
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How to Fake Your Workout
Grant Hindsley / APIf you get life insurance through John Hancock—and you happen to be a gym rat—you’re in luck. In April the company started offering discounts and perks to members who agree to wear a...
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Is Mars Contaminated?
A self-portrait by the Mars rover, Curiosity NASAScientists tend to get cagey when you ask them to quantify the likelihood of finding life on other planets. Until there’s evidence, probablys don’t get...
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The Car That Killed Glamour
Elijah Nouvelage / ReutersThe Tesla Model S is a supercar without equal. Recently, the P85D trimbroke the Consumer Reports rating system, earning a score of 103 out of 100. They rounded down to just...
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Self-Driving Cars Could Save 300,000 Lives Per Decade in America
GoogleIf driverless cars deliver on their promise to eliminate the vast majority of fatal traffic accidents, the technology will rank among the most transformative public-health initiatives in human...
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September Must-Reads: Science, Technology, and Heath
Close-up of test tubes Pedrosala / ShutterstockOkay, okay, okay. I love an expertly reported 10,000-word magazine story as much as the next person. But not all great reads are long reads. And there’s...
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Who's Sweating the Sexbots?
Douglas Hines, founder of True Companion, poses with the sexbot Roxxxy during the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas in 2010. Paul Sakuma / APIn 2014, the Pew Research Center released a report...
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How Many Websites Are There?
A Beijing man takes a closer look at an Internet-connected computer in this 1999 file photo ReutersMost webpages die after a couple of months. The average lifespan is something like 100 days. That's...
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An Instagram From 1880s Paris
Tulio Crali’s Before the Parachute Opens, the prototypical evil Futurist view-from-above The Guggenheim MuseumNo perspective is so unmistakably modern as the view from above.It’s pools and baseball...
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Inside Tesla's Inside Jokes
Every day I'm hustling #whipitwhipitrealgood #teslaA photo posted by Leila Nematzadeh (@mrs_puniverse) on Jul 31, 2014 at 4:44pm PDTYesterday I wrote that Tesla represents the first step in the...
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Why Are So Many Law Firms Trapped in 1995?
Vincent Kessler / ReutersAfter I graduated from law school, my first assignment at a large New York law firm was to assist in the discovery phase of a securities case. For 12 hours a day, I sat in a...
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Digital Romance: The Teens Get It
Edgard Garrido / ReutersOn Thursday, the Pew Research Center released a report titled “Teens, Technology, and Romantic Relationships.”This is the trifecta of things that media articles often cast...
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In Which I Consider Jumping Ship for The New Yorker
From a slideshow of cartoons in Oct 5, 2015 issue of The New Yorker, by Tom Toro, with permissionYeah, here at TheAtlantic we’ve got our 158-year-long tradition, our Civil War reportage by Nathaniel...
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Americans Love Technology—but They Want Their Privacy Back
Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Digital technology now dominates how many Americans interact with the world: how people get their news, talk with loved ones, and how they work.The most recent...
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The Ancient Civilization With Perfect Teeth
ANSAIt was with a force greater than an atom bomb that Mount Vesuvius erupted and blotted out Pompeii in 79 A.D.Or, not blotted out, exactly.The city’s destruction, and the thing that has kept Pompeii...
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Al Gore Blames the 2016 Election's Craziness on Television
Al Gore speaks to James Fallows at the 2015 Washington Ideas Forum. Max TaylorAmericans have sought technological explanations for their politics longer than they’ve been Americans. It’s no coincidence...
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Pompeii and the Ancient Origins of Blaming the Victim
ANSAWhen scientists recently re-examined the ancient remains of people killed in the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius, they were surprised by two findings in particular. For one thing, the...
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