People around world tend to talk to babies in higher voice

Study finds striking similarities in infant-directed speech and song in cultures spanning six continents.

Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite • harvard
July 20, 2022 ~8 min

What the controversial 1972 'Limits to Growth' report got right: Our choices today shape future conditions for life on Earth

A 1972 report warned that unchecked consumption could crater the world economy by 2100. Fifty years and much debate later, can humanity innovate quickly enough to avoid that fate?

Matthew E. Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • conversation
July 12, 2022 ~10 min


Hurricane-resistant construction may be undervalued by billions of dollars annually

Failing to consider neighborhood texture in hurricane-related wind loss models may undervalue stronger construction by over 80 percent.

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub • mit
July 11, 2022 ~7 min

Keeping cool without warming the planet

Harvard scientists have developed a revolutionary new mechanism that could unlock environmentally friendly air conditioning.

Yahya Chaudhry • harvard
June 24, 2022 ~6 min

Repeated hurricane exposure may harm mental health

Rather than becoming acclimated to repeated exposure to disasters, victims' responses to subsequent hurricanes keep getting worse.

Pat Harriman-UC Irvine • futurity
June 17, 2022 ~5 min

Coastal gentrification in Puerto Rico is displacing people and damaging mangroves and wetlands

Puerto Rico’s tourism industry is booming as nations lift COVID-19 travel restrictions, but development is displacing people who have lived along its coastlines for years.

Hilda Lloréns, Associate Professor, Anthropology & Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island • conversation
June 16, 2022 ~10 min

Using leeches to map biodiversity

Scientists looking to measure the biodiversity of wild animals in a nature reserve are taking their lead from leeches.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
June 15, 2022 ~6 min

Brain controls symptoms of sickness

Study illuminates connections to immune system.

Juan Siliezar • harvard
June 8, 2022 ~5 min


Britain's first wetland 'super reserve' offers boost to nature-based solutions to climate change

Somerset Wetlands national nature reserve merges and extends six existing protected sites.

Christian Dunn, Senior Lecturer in Natural Sciences, Bangor University • conversation
June 7, 2022 ~6 min

Hallucinating to better text translation

A machine-learning method imagines what a sentence visually looks like, to situate and ground its semantics in the real world, improving translation, like humans can.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
June 6, 2022 ~10 min

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