Crowe: Invasive Crab

Crowe: Invasive Crab

A story by new member Michael Crowe (@MichaelReports) for the Sierra Club gives us a look at the invasion of the European green crab into Washington waters, and what local officials are doing to keep “one of the worst invasive species in the world” contained. An...
Coleman: Life Atop Everest

Coleman: Life Atop Everest

New member Jude Coleman (@JudeLB_Coleman) writes for National Geographic about the life-teeming slopes of Mount Everest. Coleman talks to a scientific team that recently spent time on the mountain to take environmental readings and catalog its life via DNA they...
Stone: New Opioid Guidelines

Stone: New Opioid Guidelines

New member Will Stone (@WStoneReports) co-authored a story for NPR about new federal guidelines for prescribing opioid medications, which should give doctors more leeway to prescribe them to people who need them. Stone and his co-author explain that the new guidelines...
Blow: A Toxic Legacy

Blow: A Toxic Legacy

For the Tennessee Lookout, Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) co-authored a feature on the long-term impact of a chemical plant on its Memphis neighborhood and the people who live there. The company, Velsicol, still technically operates the plant in order to clean up the “legacy...
Gaines: Robot Surgeons

Gaines: Robot Surgeons

Engineers are working on robots that can carry out surgical procedures without the direct control of a surgeon, writes James Gaines (@the_jmgaines) for Knowable Magazine. Total autonomy may be a long ways off, however, given the vast biological complexity of the...