Artist's composite of the Kepler spacecraft. /Illustration: NASA
Stanford professor and former NASA official on the Kepler space telescope
Bjorn Carey
Consulting Professor Scott Hubbard helped guide the Kepler mission when he served as director of NASA Ames Research Center. He explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
African clawed frog / Photo: Brian Gatwicke
Frogs in California harbor deadly amphibian pathogen, Stanford study finds
Ruthann Richter
The African clawed frog, which were brought to the U.S. a century ago, harbor a fungal infection that is decimating amphibian populations worldwide, according to a School of Medicine study of these frogs in California.
Stand-up comedian Olivia Harewood at TEDx. / Photo: Tamer Shabani
Presenters 'Break Through' at TEDxStanford
Lisa Lapin
TEDxStanford featured awe-inspiring ideas and displays of creativity. Among them: a presentation about a solar house that "teaches" its inhabitants and a hip-hop dance that smashes Asian stereotypes and a talk about Stanford's model football program.  Slideshow
Small skin-like heart monitor.
Stanford engineers monitor heart with paper-thin flexible 'skin'
Thomas Sumner
Engineers combine layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors to create a wearable heart monitor thinner than a dollar bill. The skin-like device could one day provide doctors with a safer way to check the condition of a patient's heart.