Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment — September 1, 2023 Solutions for childhood stunting Adding minerals to farmland soil could help prevent a condition with long-lasting harmful consequences for children in the developing world.
Sarafan ChEM-H — August 30, 2023 Pushing cells to the extreme Hawa Racine Thiam is on a quest to understand how zero gravity and other physical forces impact the immune system.
Stanford Medicine — August 29, 2023 A new way to target tumors Stanford Medicine is the first to test a machine that combines radiotherapy with real-time detection of cancer cells.
Stanford Children’s Health — August 28, 2023 Lessons from Lahaina A pediatric trauma nurse who was evacuated from the Maui wildfires shares the plans that helped keep her family safe.
Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health — August 25, 2023 Recalculating the cost of climate change Planetary health fellow Minghao Qiu wants to quantify how increasing air pollution from wildfires and fossil fuel emissions will affect human health.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory — August 25, 2023 How clouds make ice A new model of the freezing process that includes seven distinct stages could improve our understanding of clouds and how they affect the climate.
Stanford Medicine — August 24, 2023 A step toward restored speech A brain-computer interface that translates neural activity into words offers new hope for those who have lost the ability to speak.
Stanford Health Policy — August 24, 2023 Will cash payments lead to better health? A novel experiment seeks to quantify the roles housing insecurity and economic instability play in driving health disparities.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory — August 22, 2023 Nickel’s role in converting carbon dioxide New insight into one of the oldest chemical reactions on Earth could improve carbon capture techniques for mitigating climate change.
Stanford Medicine Children's Health — August 22, 2023 How to safeguard teens’ well-being on social media Stanford Medicine’s Vicki Harrison on what makes social media so hard for teens to navigate safely, and how parents can help.