New Horizons Newsroom 2024

Post-election breakdown: An interview with Sunshine Hillygus The 2024 United States presidential election had the American people on the edge of their seats—and science writers from across the country were ready to talk about it at the Sci...

Are Autonomous Vehicles the Answer to Safer, Smoother Traffic? Listen to this story https://casw.org/wp-content/uploads/SciWri_Report_EO.mp3 Transcript [Cars honking, traffic sounds] Esther Oyedele: Imagine rush hour without frustration. No h...

For Joseph L. Graves Jr., a lifetime of fighting social injustice As a scientist, Joseph L. Graves Jr. studies the evolution of aging and of microbes. And as an African-American man in academic science, he has worked throughout his career to comb...

Local reporting on health effects essential for climate journalism Climate change is already threatening human health, but there is little coverage of this connection in the U.S. media, experts said during a workshop organized by the Council for t...

Combating the health impacts of extreme heat In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, it’s easy to see why natural disasters take center stage in policies addressing climate-related health risks. But the focus on catastrophic ...

CASW fellows cover ScienceWriters2024: Read their stories Among the audiences at the November ScienceWriters2024 meeting in Raleigh, N.C., were 17 CASW-supported reporters diligently taking notes and conducting interviews to inform covera...

“Yet We Rise”: Joseph L. Graves Jr. argues justice for HBCUs could transform science Donald Trump hasn’t taken office for his second term as President, yet the incoming administration has already promised major changes to government systems and programs. The camp...

Researchers strive to ease gold mining’s toll on the Amazon From a technical standpoint, extracting gold from soil without using mercury is very possible, says Miles Silman, the Sabin Professor of Conservation Biology at Wake Forest Univers...

Protecting workers from extreme heat Every year, an average of 34 workers die from heat exposure in the United States. Laboring in extreme heat conditions is not only dangerous, it is also costly: The value of U.S. la...

Extreme heat: Who is most vulnerable? Last year, extreme heat killed 2,325 people in the United States, a 117% increase in such deaths since 1999, according to an August study published in the Journal of the American M...

Exercise may manage blood pressure through the gut microbiome A North Carolina A&T scientist is promoting exercise in marginalized communities to target cardiometabolic disease through the gut. Marc Cook, a gut and vascular exercise immun...

A translator for the universe Hitoshi Murayama is a physicist who thinks big. Really big. “This is a redshift cosmic microwave background radiation picture of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, or 380,000 ...

Science journalism’s role in a polarized post-election America Just days after the 2024 presidential election, Sunshine Hillygus, a political scientist at Duke University, addressed hundreds of science writers gathered for the Council for the ...

Experts share tips for covering clean technologies In an effort to combat climate change, governments have since 2020 drastically increased investments in clean technologies, or “cleantech,” a suite of climate solutions that in...

Hitoshi Murayama lights path forward for dark matter research From the solar systems in the Milky Way to the international collaborations down on Earth, Hitoshi Murayama believes that dark matter—and the quest to better understand it—hold...

What will a second Trump term mean for cleantech and climate mitigation markets? Nine years have passed since signatories to the Paris Agreement agreed to act to keep the global average air temperature from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-ind...

What can U.S. farmers teach scientists about reforesting the Peruvian Amazon? If you fly over the region of Madre de Dios in the Eastern Peruvian Amazon, you will notice an endless expanse of lush forest and winding rivers interrupted by an unexpected sight:...