Behind the scenes of the world’s greatest motion picture
A complete image of the southern sky will be stitched together every few days for 10 years, creating a stop-motion movie of tens of billions of stars and galaxies.
Once in place atop Rubin Observatory’s telescope, the largest digital camera ever build for astronomy will help researchers understand dark energy and other mysteries of the universe.
It would take nearly 400 ultra-high-definition TV screens to display an LSST Camera image full size, and the resolution is so high you could spot a golf ball from 15 miles away.
3D printed nanoparticles could make shape-shifting materials
Stanford materials engineers have 3D printed tens of thousands of hard-to-manufacture nanoparticles long predicted to yield promising new materials that change form in an instant.
Researchers at Stanford have designed a spring-assisted actuator – a device that can accomplish dynamic tasks using a fraction of the energy previously required.
New 3D printing process balances speed and resolution
A technique for microscale 3D printing creates complex shapes for applications in medicine, manufacturing, and research, at a pace of up to 1 million particles a day.
The extraordinary world of brain-computer interfaces
Scientists are using devices to connect the interior of the mind with the outside world, a feat that may enable people with a range of neurological conditions to regain function in movement, speech, and vision.
Designing spacecraft to operate like self-driving cars
By combining the mathematics of trajectory optimization with the power of generative AI, Stanford aerospace engineers hope to put autonomous spacecraft within reach.
