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Laura Jones, Stanford University archaeologist, on how flower farming’s small acreage requirements made it an accessible path to economic opportunity for immigrant families, many of whom got their start on land leased from Stanford.

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.

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.

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.

Stanford researchers are working on technology that draws out water from some of the driest places in the world.

Ekaterina (Kath) Landgren, Stanford postdoctoral fellow, on new research revealing that aiming just above average in ambition leads to better outcomes.

The Stanford Data Science initiative and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI will now be run under one roof.

Research co-led by Stanford finds that children in a majority of U.S. states are performing at lower levels than they were in the decade prior.

Thomas Dee, professor of education, on a new Stanford study examining how phone use in schools affects student well-being, attendance, behavior, and test scores.

Radiation oncology Professor Billy Loo discusses the recent opening of a first-of-its-kind proton therapy machine for cancer treatment at the Stanford Medicine Cancer Center.