Jun 25, 2015 | Brain & Behavior
The United States and European countries can take steps to avoid making the same economic mistakes that Japan committed during the latter’s “lost decade,” a Stanford economist wrote in a new paper. The study, published in the IMF Economic Review,...
Jun 24, 2015 | Earth, Energy & Environment, Technology
Stanford University scientists have invented a low-cost water splitter that uses a single catalyst to produce both hydrogen and oxygen gas 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The device, described in a study published June 23 in Nature Communications, could provide a...
Jun 23, 2015 | Earth, Energy & Environment
There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity’s existence. That is the bad news at the center of a newstudy by a group of scientists including Paul Ehrlich, the Bing Professor of Population Studies in biology and a...
Jun 16, 2015 | Life & Non-humans
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have determined that toothed whales lack functional Mx genes — a surprising discovery, since all 56 other sequenced mammals in the study possess these genes to fight off viruses like HIV, measles and flu....
Jun 12, 2015 | Brain & Behavior
Stanford Classics Professor Josiah Ober has long suspected that some of the long-held ideas scholars had about the ancient Greek world could be wrong. Thanks to his innovative digital research project, he now has the data to show it. Ober says there was previously a...
Jun 10, 2015 | Physics & Mathematics, Technology
Optics, a form of data transmission that utilizes beams of light, has the promise to outperform the beams of electrons that drive your computer or smartphone. Engineers have long sought a way to miniaturize optical technology, which is present in today’s...
