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Video glitches can range from annoyances in online teleconferences to deadly emergencies in remote-control tele-surgeries. | iStock/MicrovOne

Apr 9, 2018

Can computer science take the glitch and stall out of real-time video?

Computation & Data, Materials

The goal is to quickly and inexpensively identify promising new materials for next generation applications. | iStock/shulz

Mar 5, 2018

Simulate today, innovate tomorrow: The future of materials science

A technical first could enable the creation of foldable, stretchable touchscreens. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Feb 21, 2018

Stretchable, touch-sensitive electronics

Electronics & Networking, Materials, Technology & Society

If nanomaterials are going to impact society at a large scale, we have to find a way to make them affordably. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Jan 25, 2018

Applying mechanical principles from the visible world to the nanorealm

A fabric allows temperature to be no issue. | iStock/Mingirov

Nov 14, 2017

A new textile can keep people comfortable whatever the weather

Energy, Materials

Stem cells hold the promise of being able to cure ills ranging from spinal cord injuries to cancers. | Image by: luismmolina/Getty Images

Nov 2, 2017

An advance in stem-cell development could help lead to new therapies

Health, Materials

Harsh conditions on the surface of Venus | Image courtesy of NASA

Oct 30, 2017

Building extreme electronics for extreme conditions

Electronics & Networking, Materials

The nanopeapods depicted in this artist's rendition are carrying excess thermal energy away from a computer chip. | Courtesy of Goodson Lab

Oct 16, 2017

Can we turn tiny amounts of waste heat into thermo-electricity?

Electronics & Networking, Energy, Materials

What can survive the heat of Venus, where surface temperatures are enough to melt lead? | Photo by 3quarks

Oct 16, 2017

Debbie Senesky: Developing electronics for the extremes of space

Materials, Transportation & Robotics

Researchers are developing a sodium ion battery based on a compound related to table salt. | Photo by iStock/Konstantin Gushcha

Oct 9, 2017

A promising new kind of battery is based on sodium, not lithium

Energy, Materials

Researchers hope to probe the inner workings of cells to spot and, one day, even cure disease at the earliest stages. | Stocksy/Miquel Llonch

Oct 4, 2017

A team of researchers seeks to probe inside living human cells

Health, Materials, Technology & Society

Researchers say a new discovery will enable self-driving car engineers to design next-generation LIDAR systems. | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Oct 2, 2017

A new way to improve solar cells can also benefit self-driving cars

Environment, Materials, Transportation & Robotics

Approximately 50 percent of drugs and 30 percent of agrichemicals are chiral, which means they can be left- or right-handed. | Photo by efcarlos/Getty Images

Sep 26, 2017

A new technique could help lead to safer drugs and agrichemicals

Health, Materials

A fluid-cooling panel designed at Stanford being tested on the roof of the Packard Electrical Engineering Building | Photo by Aaswath Raman

Sep 8, 2017

How a new cooling system works without using any electricity

Energy, Environment, Materials

The eyes of a robber fly, Holcocephala fusca | Photo by Thomas Shahan/Creative Commons

Sep 5, 2017

Insect eyes inspire the design of a new solar cell

Energy, Materials

Dynamic window technology has the potential to save about 20 percent in heating and cooling costs. | Illustration by: Stefani Billings

Aug 21, 2017

New energy-saving windows can go from clear to dark in under a minute

Energy, Materials, Technology & Society

Many processes in electronics and other fields depend on the ability to build materials with atomic level precision. | image by Stanford Engineering

Aug 11, 2017

Controlling chemistry atom by atom

Self-organizing structures that look like molecules could be building blocks for new materials. | by Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Aug 1, 2017

Behold! Artificial atoms assemble into perfect, purposeful lattices

Researchers are developing technologies to help robots adapt to unknown and changing environments. | Orion nebula/Courtesy JPL

Jul 14, 2017

Space robot technology can help autonomous vehicles here at home

Computation & Data, Materials, Transportation & Robotics

A group of engineers create a microfluidic guillotine. | Image credit: L.A. Cicero

Jun 29, 2017

A microscopic guillotine cuts cells in two

Health, Materials

How will we harness the power of light in the future? | Illustration by Stefani Billings

Jun 13, 2017

Jennifer Dionne: The power of light

An industrial catalyst cleans up the environment like a sponge. | Image credit: iStock/DNY59

Jun 1, 2017

Using nanotechnology to make a key industrial catalyst more effective

May 2, 2017

Flexible, organic, biodegradable: Developing a new wave of electronics

An artist's rendering shows a moon base created by 3D printing. New research aims to use a similar process to create a habitat for Mars. | Photo ESA

May 2, 2017

A new technique could help turn Mars or moon rocks into concrete