Stanford School of Engineering

Close-up of chipset heatsink aluminum on motherboard

Researchers cut computing heat waste by 60 percent

Research

Using liquid crystals as a model, a SLAC-Stanford team developed a precise method to measure energy dissipation in electrical models. The technique could inform the design of more energy-efficient computers.
A researcher in a lab coat operates a 3D printing device that deposits red material through a nozzle onto a glass plate.

Multimaterial 3D printing opens new frontiers

Q&A

Stanford Professor Natalie Larson shares how an innovative 3D printing approach is transforming applications across cultivated meat, structural batteries, metamaterials, antennas, and soft robotics.
Brian Hie, Aditi Merchant, and Talal Widatalla examine a protein from the West Nile virus

AI designs a novel E. coli killer

Research

Using an AI model of their own creation that writes whole genomes, a team of Stanford scientists has engineered a novel bacteria-fighting phage. A new age of antibiotics could be on the horizon.