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Small wheeled robot with a cylindrical lidar sensor, circuit boards and cables on a table, another robot blurred behind.

Researchers open autonomous robotics learning to the world

Science & Engineering

News

A free online textbook, video lectures, and hands-on resources are making cutting-edge autonomy knowledge accessible to developers, researchers, and robot enthusiasts everywhere.

Smiling Stanford football player Braden Marceau-Olayinka, wearing No. 75, gestures on the field after a game as teammates celebrate behind him.

Stanford football player finds joy in giving back

Athletics

Profile

Hawaii's Na Pali coast with steep green volcanic ridges and red cliffs rising above a sandy beach and deep blue ocean under a partly cloudy sky.

Genetic study reveals surprising origin of Native Hawaiians

Health & Medicine

Research

Nina Zhao in safety glasses and a blue lab coat smiles while holding a box of samples in a lab aisle lined with shelves of supplies.

‘We live in a chemical world’

Research Matters

Profile

Nina Zhao is working to map the drugs, pesticides, and pollutants we encounter in daily life – often unknowingly – and to understand how they shape human and ecosystem health.

Two researchers pose beside a foam-lined test chamber, one holding a handheld signal analyzer connected by a blue cable.

Thermal noise used to send data without an active signal

Science & Engineering

Research

In a new paper, Stanford engineers detail how to harness the vibrations of electrons to relay data without needing an energy-intensive signal carrier.

Ronak Vyas and Micky Chahcoi pose for a photo together on the Stanford campus with a sandstone arcade in the background.

Fellowship offers a roadmap for civic life at Stanford

Constructive Dialogue

News

Through workshops, discussions, and campus activities, the Frosh Civic Challenge Fellowship helps new students practice civic engagement and constructive dialogue.

In the News

Fossils are our only opportunity to see into past biodiversity.

Christine Garcia, geoscience specimen collection curator and manager, commenting on an ice age tooth that has been donated to the Doerr School of Sustainability after being found in an open space preserve in San Mateo County.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Narcoleptic dogs help Stanford scientist crack a medical mystery

By studying a colony of narcoleptic dogs at Stanford, Emmanuel Mignot was able to track down a gene that seemed to play a central role in the condition.

San Jose Mercury News

Stanford team partners with youth on school air quality

A Stanford research team is helping youth-led nonprofit ConServe expand low-cost air-pollution monitoring at schools and in underserved communities.

Research Matters.

The return on government-sponsored science is powerful: Every $1 of NIH-funded research leads to $2.56 in economic activity.

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Citing real-life anecdotes and behavioral science research, Tina Seelig, executive director of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, argues that much of what we call luck is the result of deliberate actions and consistent efforts.

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A new approach to forecasting toxic metals in wildfire smoke

Earth & Climate

Video

Wildfires can turn natural metals in soil into toxic, airborne particles. Stanford researchers are working to predict where these metals travel and warn people in harm’s way.