Tracy Staedter covers health and technology for HowStuffWorks. As a science journalist with more than 20 years of experience, she has worked for numerous science publications, including Seeker, Discovery, HowStuffWorks, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, Astronomy and Earth. In 1999, she authored the children’s science book, "Rocks and Minerals," part of the Reader’s Digest Pathfinders series. She also founded the Boston-based writing workshop Fresh Pond Writers, which caters to creative nonfiction and fiction writers.

Recent Contributions

And those satellites could provide you with crazy fast internet service.

By Tracy Staedter

You know that last loaf of bread that no one wants? It could get transformed into microbrews, courtesy of an organization that's passionate about both ending food waste and making delicious beer.

By Tracy Staedter

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Food spoilage is an urgent issue for the millions of people with unreliable electricity — or no electricity at all. A supercool $35 fridge could change that common scenario.

By Tracy Staedter