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Scholars were able to determine that Texas high school history books mostly focus on white men. | TONL

Nov 18, 2020

AI uncovers who gets attention in high school textbooks

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Occupancy caps on reopened stores can lower the risks. | Unsplash/Lucas Santos

Nov 10, 2020

Researchers create a computer model to predict how COVID-19 spreads

Health, Technology & Society

Tomorrow’s chips will be stacked, like the floors of the skyscrapers on a New York block. | Shutterstock/metamorworks

Nov 9, 2020

Kwabena Boahen: How to build a super-efficient super-computer

Technology & Society

Ready, aim, sterilize: a light-based device helps resource-strapped health care providers protect themselves against COVID-19. | Shutterstock/wacomka

Nov 9, 2020

Two engineers design and donate a technique to make N95 masks reusable

Health, Technology & Society

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

New approach | Image courtesy of Greg Stewart

Nov 5, 2020

A new approach to lithium-ion batteries could address two major goals

Energy, Materials, Technology & Society

An AI tool spotted 80% of fakes by noting when “visemes,” or mouth formations did not match “phonemes,” or phonetic sounds. | Image by Agrawala lab

Oct 21, 2020

AI can detect seemingly perfect deep-fake videos

Technology & Society

“We need to ensure that hospitals remain operational to treat patients and avoid greater loss of life.” | Stocksy/Per Swantesson

Oct 19, 2020

A new technique predicts how quakes would affect a city’s hospitals

Environment, Health, Technology & Society

A rendering of the laser scanning process. | Image by Stanford Computational Imaging Lab

Oct 16, 2020

“This is really something where we make the invisible visible”

Technology & Society

In the end, says a legal scholar, all voters just want to know: Are our elections legitimate? | Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Oct 9, 2020

How to hold a secure election

Security, Technology & Society

How are we training our health care AI? Too many algorithms rely on datasets from the same states. | Getty Images/Nomadsoul1

Oct 6, 2020

Exploring the geographic bias in medical AI Tools

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society

What are the consequence of losing so much sleep? | Unsplash/Mitchell Griest

Oct 5, 2020

Rafael Pelayo: How to get a good night’s sleep

Health, Technology & Society

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

Marietje Schaake says democracy is under attack from propagandists and bad actors. | Stocksy/Jess Lewis

Sep 24, 2020

Marietje Schaake: Can democracy survive in a digital world?

Technology & Society

Understanding the biology of stress | iStock/Ponomariova_Maria

Sep 18, 2020

Andrew Huberman: How stress affects the mind — and how to relieve it

Health, Technology & Society

The Pneumask is a full-face, reusable N95 protective equipment inspired by the mask used for snorkeling. | Image courtesy of the Prakash Lab

Aug 28, 2020

Manu Prakash: How to beat a pandemic on a budget

Health, Technology & Society

A new interactive tool uses AI techniques to automatically measure who is on cable news and what they talk about. | Shutterstock/Conchi Martinez

Aug 27, 2020

A team of researchers launch an AI-powered TV news analyzer

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Life in a screen-time world. | AdobeStock/local_doctor

Aug 20, 2020

Byron Reeves: What our screens tell us about us

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

“We’re in the middle of something really unusual here.” | Unsplash/visuals

Aug 20, 2020

John Mitchell and Maxwell Bigman: How can we improve online learning?

Technology & Society

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

Look familiar? An early image of distributed tutored video instruction, circa 1994/95 | Courtesy Jim Gibbons

Aug 14, 2020

Lessons in remote learning from the 1970s: A Q&A with James Gibbons

Technology & Society

Water, water everywhere | Adobe Stock/angeldibilio

Aug 13, 2020

Newsha Ajami: How engineers restored hope for our water supplies

Environment, Technology & Society

Can an AI system help students learn open-ended tasks like coding? | Photo by Linda A. Cicero

Aug 10, 2020

How an AI-based “Super Teaching Assistant” could revolutionize learning

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

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