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Using a new algorithm, Stanford researchers have reconstructed the movements of individual particles of light…
For decades Z-X Shen has ridden a wave of curiosity about the strange behavior of…
By genetically reprogramming the cellular machinery of yeast they created microscopic factories that convert sugars…
Researchers have fashioned ultrathin silicon nanoantennas that trap and redirect light, for applications in quantum…
Some people get really sick from COVID-19, and others don’t. Nobody knows why. Now, a…
Researchers at Stanford and other institutions hypothesize outcomes of the pandemic’s unprecedented socioeconomic disruption and…
The pandemic has tugged carbon emissions down, temporarily. But levels of the powerful heat-trapping gas…
Stanford scientists find the growth of phytoplankton in the Arctic Ocean has increased 57 percent…
Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another…
Researchers at Stanford University are developing a new insulin formulation that begins to take effect…
In 2017, Stanford University researchers presented a new device that mimics the brain’s efficient and…
Cellular delivery system developed at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry could be missing link in battle…
Careful engineering of low, plant-covered hills along shorelines can mitigate tsunami risks with less disruption…
Stanford’s Scott Hubbard, the former director of NASA Ames, discusses how the advent of new…
Researchers at Caltech and Stanford use microelectronics to enhance jellyfish swimming. Engineers at Caltech and…
Researchers have developed a deep-learning model that maps fuel moisture levels in fine detail across…
Physicists propose that the influence of cosmic rays on early life may explain nature’s preference…