
Margarita Noriega
Former Shortform Editor
Latest articles by Margarita Noriega


The story begins and ends at an Arkansas dance hall in the 1950s.


This poster illustrates the diversity of aircraft owned by the US Navy.


Is your state bee-ing friendly to America’s favorite flying pollinators?


Facebook wants you to read complete news stories on your phone, without ever leaving the site.


It is not the year 2112.


Human error was responsible for nearly a third of US train accidents from 2000 until February 2015, but it’s not the biggest cause of accidents.


There are dozens of countries yet to be discovered by Google’s Columbus.


Meet the bot who wants to win the war for your attention on Facebook, and rival Google in search.


The Amtrak regional train 188 was traveling at about twice the appropriate speed limit at the time of its derailment.


A Marine wrote his (or her) parents four months before the Tet Offensive, one of the largest campaigns of the Vietnam War. The letter recently turned up in the aftermath of deadly tornadoes in Texas and Arkansas.