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Friday,
Aug. 3, 2012
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Historian Laura Stokes is uncovering how attitudes toward "acceptable greed" have evolved in the past 500 years. In medieval Europe, using wealth as a justification for circumventing societal norms could have gotten you killed.
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Scientists, including Alexander Dunn, measured mechanical tension at the nanoscale to explore how living cells produce and detect force. The research could lead to a better understanding of how tissues and tumors form and grow.
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A molecule assailed as the chief culprit in Alzheimer's disease unexpectedly reverses paralysis and inflammation in several distinct animal models of a different disorder — multiple sclerosis, according to researchers, including Lawrence Steinman.
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Department of Public Safety review: Stanford police are reviewing the circumstances of a Thursday early-morning episode in which a handcuffed suspect allegedly involved in a domestic violence incident escaped from the back of a patrol car. The suspect was later apprehended.
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NCAA profiles Stanford alumnus and postgraduate scholarship recipient RYAN THACHER, who is turning pro as a tennis player . . .
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