Rose Eveleth

Rose Eveleth

 

Rose Eveleth was a writer for Smart News and a producer/designer/ science writer/ animator based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Scientific American, Story Collider, TED-Ed and OnEarth.

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This 3-D Printed Robot Also Can Assemble Itself

Robots get smaller, smarter, faster and easier to assemble every day. In fact, they're so easy to make that this robot can actually assemble itself

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This is a Real Time Map of Wikipedia Changes

Who are the people who edit Wikipedia and where do they come from? Here is a real-time map to answer that question

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This App Uses Audio to Guide Blind Photographers

While blind people can't enjoy photographs the same way sighted people do, that doesn't mean they don't want to take them

3-D Printed Gun Plans Are Going to Be on the Internet, Whatever the State Department Says

Barns Are Painted Red Because of the Physics of Dying Stars

Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? Here's why.

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Women Appear on Less Than Five Percent of Sports Illustrated Covers

A recent analysis of 11 years of SI covers shows that if you take out the swimsuit issue, women appear just 4.9 percent of the time

Dawn LeClair, member of the 1975 Wickenburg High School Math Club, sits in front of the paper clip computer.

Can You Build a Computer Out of Paper Clips?

You might never have asked yourself this question, because it's a pretty weird question, but the answer is essentially yes

Is It Time to Scrap the Manual on Mental Illness?

After 11 years of working on the new DSM, some are saying that it's time to retire the manual and think abut mental health entirely differently

Cavemen Used Some of the Same Words We Do

Our modern language still has some remnants of the grunting cavemen who came before us

How Many Weddings Will the Cicadas Ruin This Summer?

Late spring is when the 17 year cicadas come out. It also happens to be a popular time for weddings

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Seahorses Inspire New Armor Designs

The plates that line seahorse tails have to be both flexible enough to grasp and rigid enough to defend themselves from predators

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You Think the NFL Has Brain Injury Problems? The Military Has it Way Worse

Thousands of soldiers return home from cobalt with traumatic brain injuries - many without even realizing it

This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like

You already have welcomed your robot overlords, and they're building our financial system

Okay Americans still maybe take the worst tourist pictures.

Americans Are Actually The Best Tourists

A recent survey reveals that many service workers don't find American that bad at all

Facebook Likes Might Be Hurting How Much People Actually Give to Charity

"Slacktivism" - easy online activism - could actually decrease how much people donate to their pet causes

Do Blind People See Ghosts?

Can you "see" a ghost without seeing?

It’s Fine to Eat Standing Up

Should we add eating standing up to the list of food no-no's? It's unclear, science says

It Costs At Least $30,000 to Climb Mt. Everest

On top of dealing with the physical challenges, climbers have to be loaded.

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The Internet on the Battlefield Could Be Way Better

On the battlefield, having internet to communicate with one another, control objects and weapons, and calculate positions can be extremely important

Hurricane Sandy Spilled 11 Billion Gallons of Sewage

Enough sewage to fill a 41 food deep pool the size of Central Park spilled out during Hurricane Sandy

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