How a Serengeti park road could alter lives

Would a road bisecting Serengeti National Park reduce poverty and aid conservation, or facilitate poaching and disrupt animal migration?

Maria Hornbek-Copenhagen • futurity
March 22, 2019 • ~4 min

Distracted drivers are 29X more likely to crash in work zones

Highway work zone crashes happen every 5.4 minutes. New measures could help keep drivers focused and workers safe.

Eric Stann-Missouri • futurity
March 6, 2019 • ~3 min

Smartphone sensors keep an eye on crumbling bridges

The US infrastructure system only gets a D+ grade, but smartphone sensors may offer a way to monitor crumbling roads and bridges.

Eric Stann-Missouri • futurity
Feb. 11, 2019 • ~3 min

Drones get car crash data faster to keep drivers safe

Drones can collect car accident information faster than current methods and with more accuracy, which keeps drivers and law enforcement safer.

Cynthia Sequin-Purdue • futurity
Jan. 27, 2019 • ~5 min

Road repairs cut greenhouse gas emissions

Keeping roads in good shape saves money and energy and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, researchers report.

Todd Bates-Rutgers • futurity
Jan. 15, 2019 • ~3 min

Family’s photos from ’50s capture fading way of life in Kalahari Desert

Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”

Faith Sutter • harvard
Oct. 1, 2018 • ~9 min

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