Mechanical Engineering

The nucleus of a stem cell throws its weight around to move through the body. | Image by Hyong-pyo Lee

Jan 11, 2021

Stem cells use a piston-like engine to ‘drive’ to their destinations

Health Issue #108

Simulated smart speaker interactions were used to test how altered moods might influence people’s trust in autonomous products. | Getty Images

Jan 4, 2021

A team of researchers study trust in autonomous products

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #108

The microlab test takes advantage of the fact that coronaviruses leave behind tiny genetic fingerprints wherever they go. | Getty Images

Nov 5, 2020

A new genetic microlab can detect COVID-19 in minutes

Health, Technology & Society Issue #105

Risk assessment | Unsplash/Dominik Lange

Oct 26, 2020

Researchers blend CAT scans and advanced computing to fight wildfires

Environment

What will happen at the critical instant a rocket engine ignites? Stanford engineers will help answer that question. | Image courtesy of Javier Urzay

Oct 1, 2020

Interdisciplinary team develops ‘exascale’ computing for spaceflight

Technology & Society Issue #104

Stanford Engineering faculty are working to find novel approaches to a novel challenge. | Adobe Stock/Zubada

Aug 17, 2020

Ken Goodson: How the School of Engineering is taking on COVID-19

Health, Technology & Society Issue #100

An AI-based robotics system could help predict and prevent falls. | Unsplash/Lindsay Henwood

Aug 10, 2020

Building a wearable that can catch you when you stumble

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society

Global climate change threatens to fundamentally alter society as we know it … unless we can change our ways. | Unsplash/Science in HD

Aug 6, 2020

Arun Majumdar: Sustainability — the defining issue of the 21st century

Energy, Environment

Engineers need to explore the “peopleness” in the challenges they are trying to solve. | Unsplash/Andre Hunter

Jul 20, 2020

Sheri Sheppard: How do we educate a new kind of engineer?

Technology & Society Issue #100

Previous models have often overlooked soft costs — the cost interactions among people. | Photo by Getty Images

Jun 25, 2020

How interactions between developers and landowners affect wind farms

Energy, Environment, Technology & Society Issue #96

A nasal swab | Stocksy/Sean Locke

Apr 27, 2020

How a rapid field testing device could help head off future epidemics

Health Issue #93

A prototype of a new type of protective face mask | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Apr 14, 2020

COVID-19 prompts a team of engineers to rethink the humble face mask

Health, Technology & Society Issue #92

Tina White | Photo by Andrew Brodhead

Apr 9, 2020

Researchers help develop a privacy-focused coronavirus alert app

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #93

The web of neurons that make up the brain is an apt metaphor for a network of cities — only the travelers are people, not electrical signals. | Unsplash/Tomas Williams

Apr 9, 2020

A brain-inspired model can help predict COVID’s spread and recovery

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society Issue #92

Graduate student Delaney Miller runs on a treadmill aided by the ankle exoskeleton emulator. Fellow graduate student Guan Rong Tan controls the emulator and monitors Miller’s gait and respiration.

Mar 30, 2020

A group of engineers show how an ankle exoskeleton aids running

Health, Transportation & Robotics

Graduate students Zachary Hammond, left, and Nathan Usevitch with the isoperimetric robot | Photo by Farrin Abbot

Mar 27, 2020

A team of engineers create a shape-changing, free-roaming soft robot

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #91

Gold still behaves like a solid at the nanoscale, says Stanford’s Wendy Gu | Unsplash/Aaron Munoz

Mar 24, 2020

As electronics shrink to nanoscale, will they still be good as gold?

Electronics & Networking, Materials

MARTY, the autonomous drifting DeLorean. | Jonathan Goh

Jan 22, 2020

How an autonomous, drifting DeLorean can improve driver safety

Transportation & Robotics Issue #86

Better movement is key to better health. | Unsplash/Phil Coffman

Dec 13, 2019

Scott Delp: Better gait, better life

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society Issue #87

We all know exercise is good for us, but we still don’t do it as much as we should.| iStock/ZamoraA

Dec 9, 2019

Beyond fitness trackers: Motivating the unmotivated to exercise more

Health Issue #84

The tactile display pairs with 3D design software to produce touchable representations of a user’s work. | Image courtesy of Farrin Abbott

Nov 13, 2019

A new touch-based display makes 3D design accessible to the blind

Technology & Society Issue #82

Modern robotic technologies could help people with artificial limbs walk with less effort, more quickly and with better balance. | iStock/JohnnyGreig

Sep 23, 2019

Steven H. Collins: New prosthetics should be better than the real thing

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Materials Issue #80

By studying natural systems that have evolved over millions of years, a sense of what’s possible emerges. | Image courtesy of Kurt Hickman

Aug 9, 2019

What makes birds so good at sticking their landings?

Transportation & Robotics Issue #76

Cantwell's internship involved testing the Lunar Module’s ascent engine that took astronauts off the moon and into orbit. | Image courtesy of NASA

Jul 16, 2019

Brian Cantwell: My Apollo program internship

Technology & Society