Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
20 November 2021
Carmel, Indiana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
America's capital of the traffic roundabout is Carmel, Indiana, a city of 102,000 people and 140 roundabouts. The city boasts exceptionally low rates of traffic deaths and injury crashes. Studies of roundabout use els...
22 October 2021
New Mexico, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In order to preserve and protect rivers a new movement that grants rivers personhood rights is growing. In places like New Zealand and Oregon, where some of these measures have passed rivers have the right to flow wit...
14 September 2021
Kigali, Rwanda
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot program is using drones to spray anti-Malaria pesticides in high-incidence regions. The spraying drones have a 10-liter on-board tank that holds a biological insecticide, which uses bacteria that impacts larva...
8 September 2021
United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
Ancient trees like the Big Belly Oak, which grows to be hundreds of years old, provide substance to thousands of invertebrate species, and hundreds of species of lichen and fungi. However, due to changes in forest man...
1 September 2021
Orange, Massachusetts, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Trans Doe Task Force is a nonprofit project by two professional genetic genealogists that works to solve cold cases involving missing and murdered trans people. Trans people are at greater risk of violence. When their...
11 August 2021
Alaska, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Alaska put itself at the cutting edge of rape investigations in 2007 by passing a law requiring the collection of DNA samples from people arrested for a variety of crimes. The system is meant to aid in solving rapes, ...
27 July 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Tribaja connects a diverse pool of qualified candidates to tech companies that have cultivated supportive work environments for people of color in an industry that has famously lacked inclusion. Tech companies have at...
Atlas Obscura
Ashley Stimpson
27 July 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The endangered San Francisco garter snake has made a comeback due to conservation efforts at the San Francisco International airport. They built ponds and wetlands to make the conditions ideal for the snake to thrive ...
22 July 2021
Guinea-Bissau
Text
1500-3000 Words
Mangrove forests are known to be excellent storers of carbon and hosts of biodiversity, but they are also able to protect communities on coastlines from storm surge. However, many of the projects to restore these fore...
14 July 2021
Port Angeles, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
After decades of collaboration between the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Washington state, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other organizations, the Elwha River dams were taken down to restore fish populations a...
12 July 2021
Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A joint project between Wyoming and Colorado screens newborns for spinal muscular atrophy, allowing them to receive gene therapies to prevent the deadly disease’s progression. Once researchers identified a protein mis...
22 June 2021
Barrow Island, Western Australia, Australia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Off the coast of Australia, the energy company Chevron is experimenting with new quarantine management techniques to ensure that any plants and pests don’t hitchhike to new places, which can devastate the global food ...
22 June 2021
Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
For the past 200 years, crops have been bred for yield, for feeding livestock, rather than nutritional value. However, as more people shift away from meat the industry is looking to produce crops for flavor and nutrit...
16 June 2021
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Utah Stem Action Center’s Innovation Hub has partnered with schools in order to make learning about math and science more enjoyable for students. During the pandemic the organization made and delivered around 500 To-L...
BBC
Kamala Thiagarajan
15 June 2021
India
Text
1500-3000 Words
In the South Indian coast, erosion is leading to disappearing beaches. A study found that this erosion was in part due to man-made structures like a harbor that was built in the late 80s, groynes, and seawalls. These ...
15 June 2021
British Indian Ocean Territory
Text
800-1500 Words
In coastal cities in India, floods have led to hundreds of deaths and millions of people being displaced. To address the issue, scientists had to address a variety of factors: hydrology of the upstream region; river, ...
11 June 2021
St-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
To reduce overdose deaths from the increasing number of deadly substances found in street drugs, Centre SIDA Amitié uses lab testing to help understand exactly what drugs users are putting in their bodies and how to s...
11 June 2021
Nairobi, Kenya
Video
5-15 Minutes
To make internet connectivity accessible and affordable across Africa, Dr. Harold Omondi developed “internet from the moon,” a technology that uses satellite dishes to communicate with transponders placed in the moon ...
10 June 2021
Miami, Florida, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Code/Art trains art teachers in a curriculum that combines art and coding, with the goal of inspiring girls to code. They also offer weekly clubs for elementary and middle school girls, a Future Female Tech Leaders pr...
Jackson Hole News & Guide
Tom Hallberg
2 June 2021
Jackson, Wyoming, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Da Vinci Robot allows surgeons to perform soft tissue procedures with advanced technologies like electrocautery to cauterize tissue as it cuts and 3-D camera, without having to make a big incision. The robot acts ...
31 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
St. Louis was one of the first cities to adopt ShotSpotter technology, which uses a network of microphones, software, and human monitors to detect and analyze gunshot sounds. The detection system summoned police more ...
26 May 2021
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Urban Coders Guild provides STEM education opportunities to underrepresented communities and is working with local students to build websites for the businesses destroyed during the Tulsa Race Massacre. While none of ...
22 May 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The first DNA database in unsolved rape cases was created at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center nearly 50 years ago by a forensic pathologist who was appalled by the callous treatment of rape victims and the impunit...
13 May 2021
Nova Scotia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
The invasive European green crab was wreaking havoc on the soft-shell clam fishery in Nova Scotia. But fishers, researchers, and park officials worked together to remove as many of them as possible and find an alterna...
Roar News
Helena Kudiabor
12 May 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To reduce long wait times and exposure to health concerns amid the latest global pandemic, some coffee shops are experimenting with robot baristas. The robot barrista at Café X, in San Francisco, can make about 120 cu...
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