As life expectancy increases, Stanford centers and research lead the way in supporting healthy, productive, and purpose-driven lives that may span a century.
In this episode of The Future of Everything, computer science Professor Omer Reingold explains how to build notions of fairness into algorithms behind decisions on mortgages, healthcare, and more.
Physician scientist Brent Monseur discusses his research on how gay men use assisted reproductive technology to build their families, including how many children they wish to have and how often their efforts succeed.
Improved facilities and equipment at the Monterey Bay station will open the door for researchers to study more of the Pacific’s diverse species, gain a deeper understanding of fundamental biology, and develop new biotechnologies.
Using synthetic genes, researchers at Stanford have been able to modify the root structures of plants. Their work could make crops more efficient at gathering nutrients and water, and more resilient to increasing pressures from climate change.
Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence community offers a recommended reading list that includes general interest, fiction, and deep dives for practitioners.
In this explainer, Stanford scholar Oriana Skylar Mastro offers a brief history of the China and Taiwan dispute, the evolution of U.S. diplomacy in the region, and what signal Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit sends.
Organizational behavior Professor Deborah Gruenfeld found that group dynamics are an important factor in why people defer to aggressive, controlling leaders.
Jennifer Eberhardt, Margaret Levi, and John R. Rickford are among the 85 fellows newly elected to the British Academy, the U.K.’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
The monkeypox virus is normally endemic to Africa but has recently been found on other continents. It spreads through prolonged, direct contact with infected people or their bedding, clothing, and towels.
Postdoctoral scholar Shixuan Liu talks about the global effort to build a mouse lemur cell atlas to better understand seasonal rhythms, and how the scientific community can benefit from open-access resources her work has created.
In this episode of School’s In, Grace Gengoux, director of the Autism Intervention Clinic at Stanford, talks about the surprise benefits of moving their program online during the pandemic.
In this episode of The Future of Everything, radiology Professor Bruce Daniel explains how augmented and virtual reality, body tracking, and other technologies from the gaming industry could improve medicine.
A believer in the power of design to change the world, McKim’s philosophy of “visual thinking” and his unique creative methods echo in Stanford’s design program today.
Simulators can jumpstart the work of animation, but often return an overwhelming array of options for the animator to sort through. A new browser refines those options to a more manageable number.
Researchers at the Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center are using an imaging technique known as cryogenic electron microscopy to help decipher molecules’ structures in fine detail, even as they flex, twist, and undulate.
Keith Humphreys, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and chief of commission on North America’s opioid crisis, reflects on the importance of consensus.
The “friend of the court” brief filed by Stanford, MIT, and others urges the court to continue allowing universities to use race and ethnicity as one part of their multi-factored review of student admission applications.
A tiny new device allows scientists to directly observe and quantify how rocks change in the presence of acids, enabling more accurate assessments of sites for underground storage of carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and industrial waste.
Using AI, scholars track political speech on immigration over decades to find more positive attitudes than at any point in history, but with more partisan divide.
A Stanford researcher and colleagues have shown that electric charge transfer when water droplets contact solid materials can spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide, a finding with implications for cleaning and disinfection efforts.
