May 2015
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- Stanford researchers develop new technique to harness everyday seismic waves to image the Earth
- Stanford geophysicists have devised a technique that transforms the tiny tremors generated by the everyday hustle and bustle of city life into a tool for probing the subsurface of the Earth. Read more »
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- New ‘designer carbon’ from Stanford boosts battery performance
- Stanford scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly improves the performance of batteries and supercapacitors. Read more »
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- Stanford breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers
- Light can transmit more data while consuming far less power than electricity, and an engineering feat brings optical data transport closer to replacing wires. Read more »
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- Stanford brain wave study shows how different teaching methods affect reading development
- Stanford Professor Bruce McCandliss found that beginning readers who focus on letter-sound relationships, or phonics, increase activity in the area of their brains best wired for reading. Read more »
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- Eva Perón is reimagined on the Stanford stage
- Students perform the musical Evita while artifacts from Hoover’s Juan Domingo Perón papers, Eva memorabilia and contemporary video interviews of Porteños are featured in a companion exhibition. Read more »
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- Grippy not sticky: Stanford engineers debut adhesive material that doesn’t get stuck
- A material inspired by the unique physics of geckos’ fingertips could allow robotic hands to grip nearly any type of object without applying excessive pressure. Read more »
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- Fly-catching robot developed by Stanford scientists speeds biomedical research
- A team of Stanford Bio-X scientists has created a robot that expands the scope of biomedical research that can be carried out with a common laboratory organism – fruit flies. The tool both speeds existing research and opens new fields of study. Read more »
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- Stanford earthquake researcher at Nepal quake
- PhD student Anne Sanquini studies how to motivate people to take action to protect homes and schools against earthquakes. She was in Nepal when the temblor hit. Read more »
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- Latin American authors reshaping world literature, Stanford literary scholar says
- Stanford scholar Héctor Hoyos’ research goes beyond famed writers to uncover a whole generation of Latin American authors who are contributing novel perspectives on the evolving landscape of global culture. Read more »
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- Stanford professor developing water usage model that could help California
- Stanford economist Frank Wolak is creating a customer-level water demand model that can be used to design tiered water rate schedules for California. Read more »
