Stanford-facilitated dialogue resulted in a landmark accord in which industry, environmental, agricultural, and tribal groups have agreed to advance large-scale U.S. solar projects while championing conservation and community.
By demonstrating that spaceflight doesn’t adversely affect the magnetism of lunar samples, scientists underscore the potential for studying the histories they contain.
SLAC scientist and self-avowed tinkerer Peter Dahlberg combined two complex imaging techniques to contextualize high-resolution images of individual proteins in cells.
A Q&A with engineer Srabanti Chowdhury on what semiconductors are, why they are so important in our lives, and the vast potential of what could come next in this global and interdisciplinary industry.
The molecular recipe for climate change-resistant plants
Ritimukta Sarangi, senior scientist at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, on what X‑ray tools reveal about plant roots and the soil around them.
Improving EV batteries with real-world driving data
Most electric vehicles are equipped with a “brain” that manages day-to-day battery performance and safety. The problem is, most are designed in lab environments and aren’t optimized for performance on the streets.
Stanford researchers have invented a new kind of paint that can keep homes and other buildings cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, significantly reducing energy use, costs, and greenhouse gas emissions.
A bioengineered tool cuts off cancer cells’ defenses
Stanford researchers engineered a biomolecule that selectively cuts sugar-coated proteins called mucins off cancer cells, removing their “cloak of protection” from the body’s immune system.
Power lines are safer underground, but low-income communities disproportionately bear the cost of moving them there. Stanford researchers have a policy solution.
The universe’s first light continues to illuminate
When the Advanced Simons Observatory currently under construction in the Atacama Desert in Chile comes online later this year, it will give us a better picture of the early universe and many phenomena within it.
The switch from hydropower to fossil fuels when water is scarce has increased carbon emissions and cost Western states tens of billions of dollars, new research shows.
Watch loggerhead sea turtles cross the Pacific Ocean
Scientists are tracking the epic migration of 100 endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtles from Japan to test a hypothesis that warm water events like El Niño unlock a corridor allowing some turtles to ride ocean currents all the way to North America.
Gas stoves raise benzene to levels higher than in secondhand smoke
About 47 million homes use natural gas or propane-burning cooktops and ovens. Stanford researchers found that cooking with gas stoves can raise indoor levels of the carcinogen benzene above those found in secondhand smoke.
Study links heat-damaged DNA in food to possible genetic risks
Diets high in red meat and fried foods have long been tied to health risks, including cancer, and now a new study has revealed food DNA as a novel potential source of genetic damage.
Researchers pair machine-learning techniques with beam physics equations to predict a beam’s distribution of particle positions and velocities as it zips through an accelerator.
New material opens the door for energy-efficient computing
Engineers have found a metallic compound that could bring more efficient forms of computer memory closer to commercialization, reducing computing’s carbon footprint, enabling faster processing, and allowing AI training to happen on individual devices instead of remote servers.
An innovative adaptation of the technology in an old inkjet printer plus AI-assisted imaging leads to a faster, cheaper way to spot bacteria in blood, wastewater, and more.
