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Paint keeps heat inside in winter, outside in summer

Researchers show that their newly invented paints, which they produced in a wide array of colors, can reduce the need for both heating and air conditioning in buildings and other spaces, like trains and trucks for refrigerated cargo.

How heat affects the most vulnerable

Extreme heat threatens the health of vulnerable populations such as children, laborers, and the elderly. A Stanford pediatrician, emergency medicine doctor, and professor of Earth system science discuss how we can best adapt and build resilience – particularly for those populations and communities that are most vulnerable.

Rising to the demands of worsening wildfires

Stanford experts are bringing a wide range of approaches, experiences, and disciplines to bear to identify the causes and consequences of changing fire patterns, inform wildfire management, and mitigate risks to human health and infrastructure.

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute —

The nervous system of the gut

Researchers hope to improve intestinal function for preterm babies through foundational research on the “second brain.”

Bioengineered tool unmasks cancer cells

Sugar-coated proteins called mucins are implicated in many diseases, including cancer. A Stanford-led team has bioengineered an enzyme-based scissors that selectively cuts mucins off cancer cells, removing their “cloak of protection” from the body’s immune system.

Mosquito diseases on the move

Climate change and human activity are enabling the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, like dengue fever, to new places. Stanford infectious disease experts and disease ecologists discuss what we know and how communities can protect themselves from these changing disease threats.

Resilient power grids

Stanford research finds low-income communities in California face a “wildfire safety deficit” as a result of longstanding policies about who should pay to move power lines underground.

Stanford Earth Matters magazine —

Sand dune patterns reveal environmental change

Scientists have found a way to read the ripples and waves in sand dune fields on Earth and Mars, using a tool that can be applied to other planets.

Stanford HAI —

AI’s hidden racial variables

James Zou on how AI that predicts patients' race based on medical images could improve or exacerbate health care disparities.

Engineers make new LED more efficient, less stable

By tinkering with the material makeup of perovskite LEDs, a cheaper and more easily-made type of LED, Stanford researchers achieved leaps in brightness and efficiency – but saw their lights give out after a few minutes of use.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory —

Outer limits

Applying innovative new models to previously published experimental data has expanded the range of dark matter scientists can detect.

Moving communities to safety

As sea levels rise and flooding becomes more frequent, many countries are considering a controversial strategy: relocation of communities. A Stanford analysis of planned relocations around the world reveals a blueprint for positive outcomes.

Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health —

Meet ALMA, the health information chatbot

Medical student Gabriela Asturias brought health information to millions of Guatemalans during the COVID-19 pandemic with the help of a friendly chatbot.

Stanford HAI —

Why ethics teams can’t fix tech

New research suggests that tech industry ethics teams lack resources and authority, making their effectiveness spotty at best.

Distant wounds help planarians heal

In certain organisms, injuries on one part of the body can induce a healing response in another. New evidence suggests this whole-body response isn’t a side effect: it’s the main feature.

Western droughts drive emissions and costs

Switching from hydropower to fossil fuels during droughts has led to higher carbon emissions and cost 11 Western states tens of billions of dollars over the past two decades, Stanford research finds.

Advancing electrification through grid coordination

For making the complex electric grids of tomorrow reliable, improved coordination of demands and resources can accomplish more at far less expense than widespread and costly infrastructure upgrades, a new study shows.

Q&A: A tale of two (magnetic) fields

Astrophysicist Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez explains the extraordinary new results from the Survey of extragalactric magnetism with the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SALSA) project, which compared magnetic fields from different environments in deep space.

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