Around age 13, kids’ brains shift from focusing on their mothers’ voices to favor new voices, part of the biological signal driving teens to separate from their parents, a Stanford Medicine study has found.
Aydin was a field geologist who loved nothing more than leading teams of researchers and students into remote locations – the Valley of Fire, Point Reyes, Zion National Park, a Hawaiian volcano, Sicily – to study prehistoric rock formations.
By comparing the most energy-efficient running speeds of recreational runners in a lab to the preferred, real-world speeds measured by wearable trackers, Stanford scientists found that runners prefer a low-effort pace – even for short distances.
Stanford is welcoming prospective members of the Class of 2026 to Admit Weekend, marking the annual event’s return to campus since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Richard Saller, the Kleinheinz Family Professor of European Studies, will become the next director of Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, taking over from founding director Phil Pizzo.
Mindsets developed in the first 10 days of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced people’s emotions and health behaviors – and ultimately predicted their well-being six months later, Stanford psychologists find.
