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A local pizzeria is feeding National Guard troops ahead of the inauguration
During the general election, we shared a story about a non-profit bringing pizza to hungry voters waiting in line. Now, we’ve got another patriotic pizza story for you. This time aptly named restaurant, We the Pizza, is delivering meals to the 20,000 National Guard troops protecting the Capitol Read More...
Luis Martinez will inspire you to travel the world without leaving home
Luis Martinez has written over 3,000 vivid poems describing beautiful places all around the world, but he has one characteristic that makes him stand out from other travel writers. He has never left his home country of Cuba. Martinez has worked as a bus porter in the Cuban city of Trinidad for Read More...
Scientists engineer plane component that cuts NOx emissions by 95%
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are one of the biggest contributors to air pollution and have been associated with a variety of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Research shows that the aviation industry’s share of total NOx emissions contributes to an estimated 16,000 premature deaths every Read More...
How a former KKK meeting place became a center for healing
In Laurens, South Carolina, an organization called Echo Project is converting what once was a Ku Klux Klan meeting place into a community center and racial reconciliation museum. Shockingly, the building became home to a White supremacist store in 1996 that sold Klan robes and Confederate Read More...
Why West Virginia’s nursing home vaccine rollout has been so successful
As particularly vulnerable hot spots for covid-19, nursing homes have been prioritized to receive the vaccine, but most states fell short of their goal to vaccinate nursing home residents by Christmas. One outlier, however, is West Virginia. On December 30, the state celebrated the completion of Read More...
The surprising reason you should turn your camera off during Zoom calls
To all of you who have been keeping their cameras off during Zoom calls, well done. You may have simply been trying to hide your face, but what you might not have realized is that you were drastically cutting your carbon footprint. In a new study, researchers analyzed the environmental effect Read More...
Disneyland will be one of California’s largest Covid-19 vaccination sites
The “happiest place on earth” will soon bring immunity to California after the state announced that Disneyland will become a Covid-19 vaccination site. Despite facing severe covid-19 surges, the CDC reports that California ranks 42nd out of 50 states in its vaccination rate per 100,000 Read More...
Seagrass balls remove millions of plastic particles from the ocean
From improving water quality and sequestering CO2 to providing a natural nursery and crucial habitat for hundreds of species of fish, the vital role that seagrass plays in marine ecosystems is evident. Now researchers have discovered that these wondrous swaying plants may also clean up some of the Read More...
Elusive wolverine caught on Yellowstone wildlife camera for the first time
A camera trap set up to track the movement of cougars in Yellowstone National Park has captured an even more elusive creature: a wolverine. According to the park, this is the first time the rare mammal has been caught on a wildlife camera. Installed in 2014 with the aim of capturing cougars Read More...
Scientists discover a “spectacular” bright orange bat species in Africa
In early 2018, a group of scientists ventured off to conduct a conservation survey of bat populations in Guinea’s isolated Nimba Mountains in West Africa. The researchers were sleuthing in a series of old mining caves when they came across something unusual: a new species of bat with a fiery Read More...