Younger, wealthier households are pulling ahead on AI’s benefits
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Stanford research finds they adopt ChatGPT fastest – and turn the time it saves into more leisure.
Harnessing the power of fungi to create foods of the future
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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.
AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users
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Stanford research finds that users with limited social networks who seek emotional support from AI chatbots experience lower well-being.
English professor Chang-rae Lee authors his most personal work yet
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With A Tender Age, the prizewinning novelist tells the story of a Korean American immigrant at summer camp in 1976.
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Agentic AI in biomedical research: What is it and can it expedite science?
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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.
AI platform flips the script on how tumors are analyzed
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Cellular and molecular interactions around tumors give insight into their structures and weaknesses, but measuring them has been expensive and slow. A Stanford Medicine AI platform flips the script.
Technique offers sharper view of cancer antibodies at work
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Antibody therapies show limited success in solid tumors. A new Stanford Medicine imaging method, precise enough to locate antibodies at subcellular resolution, hints at why.
Study finds two effective ARFID treatments for kids
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Family- and individual-based therapy both improve eating variety in children with the pediatric eating disorder ARFID.
Optimizing surgical care through clinical trials
What others teach you about communication
The future of menopause
When AI outperforms law professors
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Chemists find a new path to luminescence
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The molecule behind the glow of fireflies and plankton breaks apart in an unexpected order under force – a discovery that could lead to better stress sensors and help illuminate some mysteries of the natural world.
Governing AI beyond language
A new HAI policy brief marks the first comprehensive examination of how to govern “world models” – AI systems that don’t just process language but build working representations of physical environments to predict how they change in response to action.
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Research questions piano’s one-size-fits-all keyboard
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Only 13 percent of women can comfortably span an octave on a standard piano. Few thought to ask whether the piano was the problem.
Why we can’t quit the ‘Odyssey’
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Nearly three millennia after Homer’s epic tale, a Stanford lecturer explains why artists keep retelling the story of Odysseus.
Sculptor forgotten by history finally gets her due
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Stanford Professor Jennifer DeVere Brody’s new book examines the extraordinary life and legacy of Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Indigenous sculptor whose work is being rediscovered.
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MoreEarth & ClimateDrier climate could nearly double water bills in some cities
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Researchers say climate adaptation and water affordability are on a “collision course,” with resilience costs falling hardest on those who can least afford them.
