On The Future of Everything, Jeff Hancock explores the positive and negative implications of computers learning to communicate as effectively as humans.
Stanford pediatrician Lisa Chamberlain says COVID-19 put a spotlight on how income disparities affect kids’ health – and how telehealth innovations could help.
Using data from sensors, civil engineers modeled settlements in tropical regions and found that painting roofs with white reflective paint could reduce heat stress incidents by 91 percent.
Watch a discussion on how biomaterials created in a lab can be injected into wound sites to enable tissue regeneration or rejuvenation by modulating stem cells, vasculature or immune responses.
The promise and challenges of relying on AI for drug development
Watch a discussion of the promise and pitfalls of using AI to bring life-saving drugs to market, including a look at justice and equity in drug research and access.
In this episode of The Future of Everything, electrical engineer Tsachy Weissman discusses the challenges of storing our ever-growing mountains of digital data.
‘Protein circuits’ move closer to cell-to-cell communication
A new platform mimics the way a cell naturally functions and emulates the ways cells typically communicate with one another, potentially opening up new opportunities in synthetic biology.
Stanford computer scientist Dorsa Sadigh talks with Russ Altman on The Future of Everything about the work of getting robots and humans to understand each other.
The Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs shares her enduring love of chemistry, the impact of a terrible loss and awe at the resilience of Stanford students.