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Stacker scoured the internet to highlight 10 groundbreaking inventions and celebrate the women who created them.

Stacker compiled a list of the states with the most active-duty military members using 2021 data from the Department of Defense.

After a multi-year battle in and out of courts, President Biden has approved the controversial Willow drilling project in Alaska

Stacker cited data from the Gun Violence Archive to visualize the scope of mass shootings thus far in 2023. Data is as of April 17, 2023.

How deadly are your local roads? Stacker used Department of Transportation data to rank the 50 cities with the highest vehicle crash fatality rates.

Stacker investigated how Supreme Court decisions and changes to Section 230 might impact social media companies, their users, and people’s ability to disseminate sensitive information by speaking with expert Aaron Mackey of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and consulting government sources.

Using information from news and government sources, Stacker has investigated the states seeking to make daylight saving time permanent all year round.

To understand the forecast for chip shortages in the U.S., Automoblog took a closer look at industry forecasting and expert reports to see if the auto chip shortage is expected to improve—and by how much.

MoneyGeek analyzed the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data to determine how much states spend on policing and corrections.

The General compiled a list of states with the most cars per capita using data from the Federal Highway Administration.

LED Lighting Supply looked at the history of electric lighting, from early incandescent lightbulbs to LED technology.

Stacker compiled gun crime data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on 40 cities across the U.S. and ranked them by five-year median time-to-crime, or the amount of time after a gun is purchased to when it is recovered by police at a crime scene.

Stacker compiled information from historical archives, accident reports, and country records to find some of the most deadly nonnuclear accidental explosions recorded in history.

Stacker compiled research from news sites, wreckage databases, and local diving centers to provide context for a series of striking images of WWI and WWII shipwrecks.

Stacker looked at how women’s rights in the U.S. have been eroded since the last women’s history month. 

Stacker investigated the Trump, Biden, and Pence classified document scandals using a variety of news and government sources.

Stacker used the Federal Highway Administration’s 2020 Highway Statistics report to rank states by the fatalities per billion miles traveled.

As Americans felt the crunch of a tighter global oil supply both at home and at the pump, major oil companies set new profit records.

Analyzing a 2022 paper on greenhouse gas emissions, Thistle broke down findings about carbon emissions in the food supply chain and supporting data about the global impact of food systems.

Stacker analyzed how single-term U.S. presidents compare in the eyes of professional observers of the presidency, using C-SPAN’s June 2021 ranking of 44 U.S. presidents.