Bioengineering

Image of surgeons stitching up a patient.

Apr 14, 2022

What makes a surgeon great?

Health, Technology & Society

Silhouettes of mobile phone users.

Apr 8, 2022

How social media can help gauge societal health

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society Issue #135

Photo of a teenage girl using social media on her phone.

Apr 5, 2022

What happens when computers can write like humans

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Mar 25, 2022

Stanford Engineering announces the winners of its annual staff awards

School News

Photo of woman and child on a video call with a doctor

Mar 23, 2022

The impact of income gaps on children’s health

Health, Technology & Society

Photo of Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Mark Skylar-Scott working in the lab.

Mar 15, 2022

Stanford bioengineers aim to build a heart, one layer at a time

Health, Materials Issue #134

Illustration of a woman in a lab

Mar 14, 2022

The promise and challenges of relying on AI for drug development

Artificial Intelligence, Health Issue #133

Photo of cable trays overhead in a data center.

Mar 11, 2022

The crucial role of data compression

Electronics & Networking, Energy Issue #133

Photo of liver pathology under a microscope.

Mar 11, 2022

Regenerating and rejuvenating human tissues

Health Issue #133

Mar 2, 2022

Why AI must embody the values of its users

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #132

Illustration of various healthcare workers.

Feb 18, 2022

A more thoughtful approach to technology can improve medical care

Health, Technology & Society Issue #132

Illustration of robot and human shaking hands.

Feb 9, 2022

How do you build a better robot? By understanding people.

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics Issue #130

Photo of farmland with a smoky horizon.

Jan 28, 2022

Can we engineer crops to withstand climate change?

Environment, Technology & Society Issue #130

An image of Kwabena Boahen

Jan 25, 2022

Kwabena Boahen: Curiosity is the way forward to new knowledge

School News

Photo of nurse using a computer in a hospital ward.

Jan 21, 2022

James Zou: Trust is AI’s most critical contribution to health care

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health Issue #131

Comic book panel showing a woman whispering into the ear of another woman.

Jan 7, 2022

Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #131

Collage of sustainable planet held by a hand.

Jan 6, 2022

Martin Fischer: AI and virtual reality can help society build better

Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Materials Issue #130

Illustration of genome sequence map.

Jan 5, 2022

Gill Bejerano: How cryptogenomics advances both science and privacy

Health, Technology & Society

Two young women work together on a laptop.

Dec 13, 2021

Cynthia Lee: How to teach computer science

Computation & Data Issue #128

Image of immunotherapy molecule targeting tumor

Nov 30, 2021

A synthetic immunotherapy seeks out and destroys tumors

Health Issue #127

Close-up of a computer screen with programming code.

Nov 22, 2021

Chelsea Finn: How to make artificial intelligence more meta

Artificial Intelligence Issue #127

Illustration of droplet lattices

Nov 17, 2021

Researchers design a frugal way to study complex systems and materials

Materials Issue #126

An industrial assembly line

Nov 4, 2021

Researchers gain insight into how cells avoid assembly-line mistakes

Health Issue #125

Paper collage of a girl reading a book for online school.

Nov 3, 2021

Kayvon Fatahalian: How the pandemic changed the virtual world

Technology & Society Issue #129