Science & Engineering

Stanford mathematician Ravi Vakil looks past the headlines to explain how AI is speeding up the field, why human understanding still matters, and what’s at stake for the next generation.

The chip could advance microscopy, astronomy, and other fields by revealing details that conventional imaging misses.

A SLAC-led team has delivered key evidence of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism first postulated in 2022, with potential implications for the development of next-gen electronics.

The distant object, discovered in Rubin Observatory images, offers scientists a new way to investigate the solar system’s outer reaches.

An analysis of 14.4 billion medical insurance claims has uncovered limitations in earlier studies, offering a more reliable way to measure the long-term health effects of COVID-19.

The machine learning program SPINE has become a backbone of neutrino experiments worldwide, decoding complex detector images to help scientists unlock the secrets of these elusive particles.

A free online textbook, video lectures, and hands-on resources are making cutting-edge autonomy knowledge accessible to developers, researchers, and robot enthusiasts everywhere.

Ultrashort X-ray pulses are helping scientists study electrons deep inside atoms and the hot, dense matter found in stars.

In a new paper, Stanford engineers detail how to harness the vibrations of electrons to relay data without needing an energy-intensive signal carrier.

Using SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, researchers created “molecular movies” of an enzyme linked to cancer and another essential to penicillin production.