Recent Stories

Stanford researchers scanned 500 million words of state law to reveal the stunning growth of reporting requirements, and are now giving governments a tool to clean them up.

A new federal rule redefines “harm” to exclude habitat destruction under the Endangered Species Act. Stanford experts in law and biology explain why the change matters and which species have the most to lose.

The global population could approach 10 billion by 2050. How do we feed that many people in an equitable, sustainable, and nutritious way? Stanford bioengineer Vayu Hill-Maini is turning to “nature’s recyclers” for answers.

The new Tech Futures Lab at Stanford’s Hoover Institution aims to help scholars, technologists, and policymakers anticipate and prepare for strategic surprises from AI and other emerging technologies.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced the first phase of funding for projects using artificial intelligence to tackle the nation’s most complex science and technology challenges, including six led by Stanford and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

The recent Stanford graduate will study pediatric immunology this fall at the University of Oxford.

Researchers are venturing into a new area of collaboration that relies on agentic AI, co-scientists that can act independently and help humans ideate, hypothesize, and speed up scientific exploration.

Stanford engineer Khalid Osman and collaborators are building modeling tools to help water system managers find the most cost-effective option for improving their community’s drinking water.

Leaders from 32 countries convened at Stanford to unlock ways of meeting surging demand for valuing nature in decisions – and growing that demand exponentially.

Nearly three millennia after Homer’s epic tale, a Stanford lecturer explains why artists keep retelling the story of Odysseus.

In mice, a decline in how well one immune cell clears out another appears to drive aging throughout the body, a finding that could inform future treatments for age-related decline.

Stanford Medicine’s David Relman transformed clinical diagnostics and food tracing for cyclospora, the parasitic organism behind the surge of this diarrheal illness. Here’s what he thinks you should know.