Issue #80 | Stanford University School of Engineering

Issue #80

Without this advance, the chips required to build an artificial retina would burn human eye tissue. | Unsplash/Createria, Pixabay/DavidZydd

Oct 10, 2019

An artificial retina that could help restore sight to the blind

Electronics & Networking, Health

Can the rapid proliferation of false information be stemmed? | Illustration by Sarah Rieke

Oct 9, 2019

How fake news spreads like a real virus

Technology & Society

Reading between the lights of a satellite image. | Image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Oct 7, 2019

Could machine learning put impoverished communities back on the map?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Wildfires in the United States burn roughly 10 million acres each year. | Reuters/Sam Mircovich

Oct 7, 2019

Researchers invent a new treatment to prevent wildfires

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