Research

News articles classified as Research

Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment —

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 —

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 —

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 —

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 —

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 —

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 —

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 —

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 —

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.