Live and on-demand video constituted an estimated 66% of global internet traffic[1] by volume in 2022, and the top 10 days for internet traffic in 2024 coincided with live streaming events[2] such as the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match and coverage of the NFL. Streaming enables seamless, on-demand access to video content, from online...
What makes people flourish? A new survey of more than 200,000 people across 22 countries looks for global patterns and local differences
What does it mean to live a good life? For centuries, philosophers, scientists and people of different cultures have tried to answer this question. Each tradition has a different take, but all agree: The good life is more than just feeling good − it’s about becoming whole.
More recently, researchers have focused on the idea of...
Fleeting fireflies illuminate Colorado summer nights − and researchers are watching
The Colorado June air was thick with summer heat. Mosquitoes rose in clouds around us, testing our resolve while we gathered our cameras and sensors. We walked into the wetland, down the unmarked path until the cattails rose shoulder-high. The sounds of frogs and crickets filled the air as we set up our cameras and waited. Then we spotted...
Young bats learn to be discriminating when listening for their next meal
It is late at night, and we are silently watching a bat in a roost through a night-vision camera. From a nearby speaker comes a long, rattling trill.
Cane toad’s rattling trill call.
The bat briefly perks up and wiggles its ears as it listens to the sound before dropping its head back down, uninterested.
Next from the speaker comes a...