‘Necessity can drive innovation’
Research MattersProfile
AI is contributing to a rising demand for electricity – a pressing sustainability challenge. Professor Will Chueh says it can also be part of the solution.
Endangered Species Act ‘harm’ rule, explained
Government & PolicyAnalysis & Insights
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.
How AI is helping states cut through decades of red tape
Social SciencesNews
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.
Breakdown in immune cell cleanup may be key driver in aging
Health & MedicineNews
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.
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What’s a ribosome’s role in deciding cell fate? More than we knew
Health & MedicineResearch
Researchers at Stanford Medicine developed a tool called the Ribo-Tweezer to pluck individual components out of a mature ribosome, finding a surprising role for a protein called RACK1.
AI platform flips the script on how tumors are analyzed
Health & MedicineResearch
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
Health & MedicineResearch
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
Health & MedicineResearch
Family- and individual-based therapy both improve eating variety in children with the pediatric eating disorder ARFID.
What others teach you about communication
The future of menopause
When AI outperforms law professors
The Declaration of Independence as obligation
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AI designs the ideal burger for taste, health, and planet
Science & EngineeringNews
Stanford researchers developed an AI tool that creates novel burger recipes optimized for individual preferences. The implications for science go well beyond food.
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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Why we can’t quit the ‘Odyssey’
Arts & HumanitiesQ&A
Nearly three millennia after Homer’s epic tale, a Stanford lecturer explains why artists keep retelling the story of Odysseus.
Research questions piano’s one-size-fits-all keyboard
Arts & HumanitiesResearch
Only 13 percent of women can comfortably span an octave on a standard piano. Few thought to ask whether the piano was the problem.
Sculptor forgotten by history finally gets her due
Arts & HumanitiesQ&A
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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Researchers confirm cause of Earth’s biggest mass extinction
Earth & ClimateResearch
Stanford scientists have directly linked the disappearance of once-dominant marine groups to intolerable heat and diminished oxygen in ancient oceans.
