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Roger Blandford, the Luke Blossom Professor in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and professor of physics, will direct the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources—an international team that aims to…

The most impressive uses of artificial intelligence rely on good data - and lots of it. Chatbots, for example, learn to converse from millions of web pages full of text. Autonomous vehicles learn to drive from sensor data recorded on…

Since the 1960s there has been plenty of evidence to support the existence of dark matter through astrophysical and cosmological observations, and at this point we’re very confident that it exists. The question remains, though: what is dark…

Stanford University today announced that it has accepted an invitation to join the Atlantic Coast Conference beginning in August 2024. This move provides the opportunity for Stanford student-athletes to continue pursuing excellence at the…

About one in every five people carries a version of a gene that, although largely unsung, appears to confer protection against both Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, Stanford Medicine investigators and their colleagues have…

It seems intuitive that forests would provide better habitat for forest-dwelling wildlife than farms. Yet, in one of the longest-running studies of tropical wildlife populations in the world, Stanford researchers found that over 18 years,…

Skin diseases do not look the same across the skin-tone spectrum, and medical textbooks and presentations used to train dermatologists often lack example images of darker skin tones. During the recent pandemic, for instance, studies…

Following a broad, international search, John Sarrao, deputy director for science, technology & engineering at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), has been named SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s sixth director, Stanford…

When drought-stricken rivers and reservoirs run low across the American West, hydropower dries up and utilities fire up hundreds of power plants that burn coal, oil, or natural gas to keep up with demand for electricity. The timing…

For prospective parents who are carriers of many inherited diseases, using in vitro fertilization along with genetic testing would significantly lower health care expenditures, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine.Preimplantation…