Hey, this is the author of the post at The Atlantic. I thought I had linked to the research; it was totally my bad that in fact I hadn’t. It should be fixed now (or in the next 3 min, when our server refreshes).
EDIT: To be clear, too, I try to make it a policy to link to the original research in my articles, even if (alas) that research is sometimes behind a pay- or journalwall. It was an accident, and my fault, that it wasn’t first linked to here.
It is very frustrating when articles do not link to the research they are reporting on.
I suspect that they haven't read the research, and are just reporting from the press releases.
If anyone from The Atlantic is reading (because you're certainly posting here) please could you try to get source links into the articles?
Here's the homepage for one of the researchers. <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=165> Some of the current projects on the research page are fascinating.