Stanford University

More than a dozen high school students walked toward the roar of cascading water at the Searsville Dam, excitedly pointing out a small delicate turkey tail mushroom, the blinking eyes of a bullfrog hiding under a leaf, and black beetles…

Kirstin Valdez Quade was awarded a fellowship for fiction. Valdez Quade is an author and associate professor of English in the School of Humanities and Sciences, where she teaches fiction in the Creative Writing Program. Valdez Quade…

Small wearable or implantable electronics could help monitor our health, diagnose diseases, and provide opportunities for improved, autonomous treatments. But to do this without aggravating or damaging the cells around them, these…

Oil and gas operations across the United States are emitting more than 6 million tons per year of methane, the main component of natural gas and the most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, according to Stanford-led research …

Although COVID-19 has faded from the headlines, SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus behind the pandemic – is still rampantly infecting people around the world. Public health officials fear as the virus continues to evolve, it will eventually hit…

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Accelerator is supporting 16 projects focused on removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere – the first funding given as part of the Greenhouse Gas Removal Flagship Destination, which has a…

Whether it’s a powered prosthesis to assist a person who has lost a limb or an independent robot navigating the outside world, we are asking machines to perform increasingly complex, dynamic tasks. But the standard electric motor was…

Making decisions is hard. Even when we know what we want, our choice often leaves something else on the table. For a hungry mouse, every morsel counts. But what if the decision is more consequential than choosing between crumbs and cheese?…

For years, researchers have known about a correlation between depression and dementia. But like the age-old chicken-or-egg question, they have struggled to understand which comes first: Is depression an early symptom of dementia, or does…

The number of babies born with severe congenital heart defects will increase because of new U.S. abortion bans, potentially straining the health care system’s capacity to meet their needs, according to research from the Stanford School of…