Everything you've always wanted to know about the Golden Gate Bridge but never had an eminent scholar around to ask.Library of Congress. The Golden Gate Bridge -- one of the world's most celebrated and ...

As the Golden Gate Bridge neared completion, a select group of people were invited to a "Last Rivet" ceremony on the actual floor of the bridge. Among them were three little girls dressed up ...

Beautiful and cool magazines purportedly from the movie Blade Runner are circling the Internet. But are they real? A science-fiction Tumblr recently unearthed some magazine covers that purportedly appear ...

Computer algorithms can now discern the meaning behind humans' facial expressions.  The four people above are taking part in a clinical experiment. In the screenshots shown here, each guy is smiling once ...

More From The Atlantic 'Facebook Is Officially the Worst-Performing IPO of the Decade' Wall Street's Obama Fury: Sometimes Even Spoiled Brats Have a Point How the Global Middle Class Can Save the American ...

So says Bloomberg , after matching the biggest tech IPO of all time against its rivals from the last ten years. Here's the proof: This is an interesting and superlative fact about Facebook, which is an ...

Here is what one effect of copyright law looks like online: That's the little notice that appears at the bottom of the first page of Google's search resultsfor the phrase "microsoft office free download." ...

Guest post by Dr. Manhattan, a lawyer in New York City who represents, among others, clients in the investment management industry. Paul Krugman argues in his current column that "Wall Streeters" ...

Here's the game plan: Hire over here, sell over there. More companies are creating jobs by taking advantage of rising global wealth -- and we should be cheering them on. Reuters Last week, 41 American ...

David Brooks writes that ivy grads are singularly focused on elite careers. But does any data back this up? Reuters The New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote  that (young) people today are "less ...

In this short NASA documentary , storm researcher Tim Samaras describes how satellite imaging can help predict tornados. Because it's unclear exactly how various weather conditions come together to catalyze ...

Facebook's IPO flop is a fascinating story. But in the long-run, the last seven days are probably irrelevant to the success of the company, which depends on whether Facebook builds a business model that ...

Facebook's IPO flop is a fascinating story. But in the long-run, the last seven days are probably irrelevant to the success of the company, which depends on whether Facebook builds a business model that ...

Vehicle purchases alone are responsible for a whopping 30 percent of U.S. economic growth in the past two quarters, according to new Credit Suisse research (H/T to The Financial Times). How is that possible? ...

China is a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma stuffed in a black box of economic data. There aren't many countries growing 8 percent a year that might also be in recession.2) and 3) ELECTRICITY ...

"Looks like we caught a Dragon by the tail," says NASA astronaut Don Pettit.NASAThree days, six hours, 11 minutes, and 23 seconds after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, ...

Forget the private equity sideshow. The real issue for November is the huge gap between President Obama's and Mitt Romney's visions for Washington. Reuters Few issues illuminate the presidential candidates' ...

The good people of NASA have taken images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and manipulated them to give us this cool, strange view of activity on the sun captured last fall. While there is no ...

Guest post by Dr. Manhattan, a lawyer in New York City who represents, among others, clients in the investment management industry. The holy grail of regulation, in my opinion, is to harness the power ...

How did the crowd funding platform become the shopping destination for things like artisanal wrapping paper and bras with built-in iPhone pockets?People love to hate on home-shopping shows -- after all, ...

The candidate believes that limiting federal dollars and letting the for-profit sector loose, the free market will bring down costs.  (Reuters) Mitt Romney has released his plan for bringing down the cost ...

An interactive panoramic view of the place where scientists are hoping to make the first human contact with alien life "When we get evidence of intelligent life out there, it's going to come through ...

Look, Google, we've got a plan to help you win on social. There's only one catch: you have to give up the notion that animates Google Plus.Out in the Mojave Desert, there's a place called California City ...

Guest post by Laura McKenna, former political science professor,  blogger , and freelance writer . If anyone could be described as the poster child for public colleges, it would have to be me.I'm a graduate ...

Stock photos are notable mostly for their weirdness and second-mostly for their blandness. They exist to capture, in the most benign and/or striking and/or hilarious way possible , the most universal features ...

Last Friday, I spoke with Espen Robak , the president of Pluris Valuation Advisors and an expert on valuing large private companies, just minutes before Facebook's stock was scheduled to trade publicly ...

It's time for a little more realism. We can handle the truth. We need our policymakers to as well.More From The Atlantic Is Economic Growth Bad for Female Workers? Sometimes. Property Rights and Fishery ...

Experts at the Smithsonian are using 3D scans of artifacts, like this 19th-century explorer's skull, to recreate the past. Robert Kennicott , a naturalist and early contributor to the Smithsonian collections, ...

The triumph of women in the American office place has been perhaps the greatest economic story of the last century. In 1900, only 19 percent of women participated in the labor force. In 112 years, that ...

The triumph of women in the American office place has been perhaps the greatest economic story of the last century. In 1900, only 19 percent of women participated in the labor force. In 112 years, that ...

The triumph of women in the American office place has been perhaps the greatest economic story of the last century. In 1900, only 19 percent of women participated in the labor force. In 112 years, that ...

The triumph of women in the American office place has been perhaps the greatest economic story of the last century. In 1900, only 19 percent of women participated in the labor force. In 112 years, that ...

The shift from paper to the tools of a simple laptop has brought about a new age of research, and it's mostly good news for readers and writers alike. Einstein's desk compared with a more modern one. (AP/James ...

Guest post by Jonathan H. Adler, a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and regular contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy .Fisheries continue to be among the best examples of the ...

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity captured this image looking eastward over the Endeavour Crater late in the afternoon of Opportunity's 2,888th Martian sol (day) which corresponded with March 9, 2012 here ...

The market for flat-screen sets is truly unique, since the price of a new television falls almost every year. So why are used TVs some of the most relatively expensive electronics in the secondary market? ...

It's sometimes said that Silicon Valley has given up on real innovation. Everyone is the hunt for the next Zynga. Nobody cares about solving big problems.If you thought the social media bubble was a sign ...

New studies -- including a report on the happiest countries on the planet -- suggest that building a theory of "happynomics" is harder than you'd think Reuters Economists can measure unemployment, ...

Earlier this spring, Gawker unveiled a shiny new comments system that was clearly a labor of love. Someone -- or, rather, a group of people with Gawker's Nick Denton at the top -- had put some real thought ...

One of the unfortunate side effects from the geyser of new wealth pouring out of North Dakota's oil rush has been the sudden, acute housing shortage within the state. Nowhere may be worse off than the ...

One of the unfortunate side effects from the geyser of new wealth pouring out of North Dakota's oil rush has been the sudden, acute housing shortage within the state. Nowhere may be worse off than the ...

Of course, it's not obvious how we can do this. If we knew, we'd be doing it. But it's worth remembering: That's how you win the future.More From The Atlantic The Sorry Six-Day History of Facebook, Inc: ...

The assumptions we hold about men and women tend to replicate themselves online. When joining the multi-player game Pardus, players choose a gender. The circles above indicate male players; the squares ...

The biggest tech IPO in history is turning into a giant metaphor of greed and hyper-optimism, as bankers and analysts struggle to figure out what went wrong Reuters It wasn't bad enough for Facebook to ...

Ronald Coase's example of farmers and ranchers shows that the insurance is mandate about responsibility, not liberty. mrfoto/Shutterstock Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for showing that ...

Rather than encounter history as a linear story, we see it as a world more like our own in which we're an actor with a set of competing choices laid out before us. Say you were thinking about taking a ...

By becoming more cost competitive, the Midwest is luring back manufacturers, creating signs of hope in a troubled region.  Clouds of moisture form on Lake Michigan at sunrise in Kenosha, Wisconsin (Reuters) ...

When British explorers explored Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1794, the Columbia Glacier reach down from the Chugach Mountains southward until it reached Heather Island. That's how the glacier remained ...