Homes and buildings chilled without air conditioners. Car interiors that don’t heat up in the summer sun. Tapping the frigid expanses of outer space to cool the planet. Science fiction, you say? Well, maybe not [...]
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Biodiversity does not reduce transmission of disease from animals to humans
More than three quarters of new, emerging or re-emerging human diseases are caused by pathogens from animals, according to the World Health Organization. But a widely accepted theory of risk reduction for these pathogens – [...]
Researchers develop tool for reading the minds of mice
If you want to read a mouse’s mind, it takes some fluorescent protein and a tiny microscope implanted in the rodent’s head. Stanford scientists have demonstrated a technique for observing hundreds of neurons firing in [...]
Babies whose efforts are praised become more motivated kids
We think our babies are so smart, so amazing, so good. But please, say Stanford researchers, don’t tell them that. “It’s better to focus on effort and the action your baby is doing. ‘You worked [...]
Christianity sways meat eating habits of indigenous people
Religious missionaries have been transforming the belief systems of indigenous peoples deep within the Amazon since the 1700s, but the outsiders might be influencing more than just prayer. Research by Stanford biologists suggests that the introduction of Western religions is altering the biodiversity in [...]
Immune cells engineered in lab to resist HIV infection
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. A [...]
Researchers develop acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids
Stanford researchers, in collaboration with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have designed a robotic platform that could take space exploration to new heights. The mission proposed for the platform involves [...]