Tag: Lives

Hearing the Secret Lives of Dolphins in New York Harbor

[ad_1] It’s a riddle. No one knows exactly why dolphins are being spotted more often and for longer periods of time in and around New York Harbor, the giant estuaryRead More

Housework applications aimed to make mothers’ lives easier. Most of the time they don’t.

[ad_1] Please consider to support MIT Technology Review journalism subscribe to. Some applications emulate enterprise software. Maple founder Michael Perry says his workplace-inspired apps like Slack and Trello put tasksRead More

A Low-Cost, Low-Tech Climate Solution that Saves Lives

[ad_1] Bangladesh’s Red Cross representative, Achala Navaratne, said half of the volunteers were women. This is important for gender equality, but also to ensure that women hear from other women.Read More

How the war turned the lives of climate activists in Russia upside down

[ad_1] Raising climate awareness under an authoritarian government is lonely and dangerous. But Arshak Makichyan, a young activist from Russia, deeply believed in this. For years, he stood alone inRead More

Turning Cities into Sponges to Save Lives and Property

[ad_1] Imagine a sponge. Swipe on a wet surface and it will absorb water; Squeeze and the water will drip. Now imagine a city made up of sponges or spongyRead More

When Pigs Cry: Tool Unravels Pigs’ Emotional Lives

[ad_1] At any given time, there are as many as 12,500 Duroc pigs sniffing around the barns of Imani Farms, a pig farm in southwestern Ontario. The pens of theRead More

Technology to Enter Our Lives in 2022

[ad_1] The lack of compatibility created long-term problems. An Apple-compatible lock isn’t useful for the family member or future tenant who prefers Android. It would also be more convenient ifRead More

How Do Hungry Sea Otters Affect the Sex Lives of Sea Grasses?

[ad_1] Jane Watson has studied sea otters for decades, but in the 1990s an ecologist in British Columbia observed that they have a destructive habit. While conservationists were working diligentlyRead More