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Stanford researchers helped lead the nationwide scientific team behind N95decon.org | Unsplash/Brian McGowan

Apr 2, 2020

A website shows how hospitals can decontaminate and reuse N95 masks

Health, Technology & Society

A transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. | Flickr/NIAID-RML

Mar 27, 2020

What are the factors that affect COVID-19 transmission?

Health, Technology & Society

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

What’s that? Speech recognition systems make twice the errors interpreting African Americans as they do interpreting whites. | Stocksy/Juan Moyano

Mar 25, 2020

Automated speech recognition systems often misinterpret black speakers

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

A magical place, but it’s in trouble | Unsplash/Francesco Ungaro

Mar 16, 2020

Fiorenza Micheli: The race to save the ocean

Environment, Technology & Society

Birds of a feather flock together — but how? | Unsplash/Nathan Dumlao

Mar 6, 2020

Nick Ouellette: What flocks of birds can tell us about engineering

Computation & Data, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

What’s in those files? | ScienceSource/Christopher W. Morrow

Feb 21, 2020

Michelle Mello: Patient privacy and the law are on a collision course

Health, Technology & Society

Vaccinations carry very little to no risk for the vaccinated. | Stocksy/Cara Dolan

Feb 19, 2020

Bonnie Maldonado: The science is clear. Vaccinations save lives.

Health, Technology & Society

An artist’s interpretation of space trash objects orbiting the Earth | Adobe Stock/dottedyeti

Feb 13, 2020

Simone D’Amico: “The Swarm” is coming to an orbit near you

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

The power of light | Unsplash/Christopher Burns

Jan 24, 2020

Jelena Vuckovic: Photonics — a light on the computing horizon

Computation & Data, Energy, Technology & Society

We need large-scale efforts to battle air pollution, says Stanford allergy and asthma specialist Sharon Chinthrajah. | Unsplash/Fabian Møller

Jan 21, 2020

Sharon Chinthrajah: The air is making us sick

Environment, Health, Technology & Society

The stakes are high: Better education is key to solving big societal challenges, like poverty alleviation. | Stocksy/MaaHoo Studio

Jan 10, 2020

Emma Brunskill: Amped-up education with AI

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

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

Dec 13, 2019

Scott Delp: Better gait, better life

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

The data suggests Google’s search algorithm is not biased along political lines, but instead emphasizes authoritative sources. | Getty Images

Dec 11, 2019

Are search results biased along partisan lines?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Catalyst director Mark Horowitz, left, and Catalyst funding recipient Jennifer Dionne. | Photo by Saul Bromberger

Dec 6, 2019

A look at research funded by the Catalyst for Collaborative Solutions

Materials, Technology & Society

The ability to detect DNA in blood led to the development of a broad array of noninvasive medical tests. | Science Source/Wladimir Bulgar

Nov 22, 2019

Stephen Quake: What can the DNA in your blood reveal about your health?

Health, Technology & Society

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

Can we use information about individual patients to more effectively detect and treat cancer? | iStock/Pitchayanan Kongkaew

Oct 29, 2019

Ash Alizadeh: A New Age in Oncology

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Could updated technologies enable more efficient use of nontraditional water sources? | iStock/VichienPetchmai

Oct 29, 2019

Q&A: How do we develop new sources of usable water?

Environment, Technology & Society

If it’s possible to engineer tomato plants to resist infections, this could be a first step towards helping agricultural plants do the same. | Unsplash/Tom Hermans

Oct 29, 2019

Scientists have developed a ‘vaccine’ to protect tomato plants

Environment, Technology & Society

Technology changes the way we teach and the way we want to teach should change the way we develop and use technology. | Unsplash/moren hsu

Oct 17, 2019

What is the most effective way to bring AI into the classroom?

Technology & Society

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

By analyzing single particles of light, a new camera system can reconstruct scenes that are hidden around the bend. | iStock/simonmayer

Sep 11, 2019

What’s around the corner in camera technology?

Technology & Society