‘Necessity can drive innovation’
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AI is contributing to a rising demand for electricity – a pressing sustainability challenge. Professor Will Chueh says it can also be part of the solution, by accelerating advances and deployment in energy technologies.
Meet Biomni – an AI-powered biomedical co-scientist
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In creating a comprehensive, AI-enabled research agent for the biomedical sciences, Stanford researchers hope to speed innovation by eliminating the tedium of scientific legwork.
Stanford Medicine experts go deep on GLP-1s
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How do the drugs work? What happens if you stop? Is it safe to take them long term? Clinicians share everything you need to know about GLP-1 agonists.
Pollution blurs the line between two fish species
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A study in Mexico finds that water pollution can threaten biodiversity through hybridization, causing distinct species to collapse into one.
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I feel like for the first time, we can use AI to analyze millions of police interactions at scale. ... It’s a game changer in that way.
Jennifer Eberhardt, Stanford psychology professor and faculty co-director of the SPARQ team, on new research using AI to audit body camera footage across Bay Area police departments.
Giving kids access to AI tutors doesn’t mean they’ll use them
New Stanford research finds that students left alone with an AI tutoring platform spent just two to five minutes interacting with it each week, raising questions about access versus meaningful use.
California researchers say controlled burns reduce long-term pollution
A Stanford study finds that prescribed burns in California’s conifer forests immediately reduced severe wildfire risk by 92% and cut cumulative smoke pollution by 10% over a decade.
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MoreStories in MotionMeet Heloise Hoffmann, ’26
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The bioengineering student and singer-songwriter graduates this month with plans to continue researching a cure for a rare form of muscular dystrophy.
