Using data from sensors, civil engineers modeled settlements in tropical regions and found that painting roofs with white reflective paint could reduce heat stress incidents by 91 percent.
Watch a discussion on how biomaterials created in a lab can be injected into wound sites to enable tissue regeneration or rejuvenation by modulating stem cells, vasculature or immune responses.
The promise and challenges of relying on AI for drug development
Watch a discussion of the promise and pitfalls of using AI to bring life-saving drugs to market, including a look at justice and equity in drug research and access.
In this episode of The Future of Everything, electrical engineer Tsachy Weissman discusses the challenges of storing our ever-growing mountains of digital data.
‘Protein circuits’ move closer to cell-to-cell communication
A new platform mimics the way a cell naturally functions and emulates the ways cells typically communicate with one another, potentially opening up new opportunities in synthetic biology.
Stanford computer scientist Dorsa Sadigh talks with Russ Altman on The Future of Everything about the work of getting robots and humans to understand each other.
The Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs shares her enduring love of chemistry, the impact of a terrible loss and awe at the resilience of Stanford students.
Zhenan Bao is awarded the VinFuture Prize for female innovators
The chair of the School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering received the award for her innovations in bio-interfacing wearable health monitoring devices.
John Hennessy receives the Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering
Hennessy, president emeritus at Stanford University, is recognized for his contributions to the invention, development and implementation of RISC chips.
Charles Steele, expert in a wide range of scientific areas, has died
A “master modeler” of the mechanics of physical structures, he extended his expertise into four disciplines and enjoyed an influential career as a researcher, editor and mentor.
Scientists from Stanford and Mexico developed advanced versions of the algorithms used to reveal people’s ancestries to show how Polynesian mariners crossed a vast ocean.
A surprise discovery could lead to new types of catalytic flares and cleaner-burning car engines that would keep tons of the heat-trapping gas out of the skies.
How computer chips get speedier through specialization
Electrical engineer Priyanka Raina explains how we’re moving toward faster, more efficient computer chips for every task in this episode of The Future of Everything.
Bubbles pop like blooming flowers, new study finds
Researchers at Stanford and the University of Naples studying how bubbles form and eventually burst use high-speed cameras and analytical modeling to reveal a new popping process.
Can Stanford University help solve the global semiconductor crisis?
With the U.S. poised to invest $50 billion in chip technologies, researchers prepare to create an infrastructure to accelerate how lab discoveries become practical technologies.
Using nature’s miracle bugs to help feed the world
It takes massive energy to make nitrogen fertilizer – temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit at extremely high pressure. Now, researchers at Stanford have developed a way to leverage nature’s own processes to produce plant-ready nitrogen at room temperature.
Nate Persily: How to restore faith in America’s elections
Our recent election focused attention on the mechanics of democracy as never before. An expert in election law sizes things up and suggests ways to regain trust in the institution.
Stanford opens a ‘smart city’ research center in Korea
The new center will provide a testbed to help academic and corporate researchers develop and deploy a new generation of physical structures and electronic technologies as prototypes for the urban environments of the 21st Century.
To make particles flow more efficiently, put an obstacle in their way
Microfluidic chips speed up biological and chemical experiments. Researchers made them more efficient by using cleverly designed “traffic circles” to direct the flow of fluids.
