Aeronautics and Astronautics

How does this beetle move along water?

Mar 4, 2016

Prakash: You suddenly stumble upon completely new and creative solutions

Environment

Researchers are developing software that can analyze satellite imagery to provide a better way to map poverty in places like Uganda. | Reuters/James Akena

Feb 25, 2016

Machine-learning makes poverty mapping as easy as night and day

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #2

Hedgehog: a cubic rover that may one day explore some of the most extreme environments in our Solar System (depicted here on Mars’ moon, Phobos.) | Ben Hockman

Feb 3, 2016

Hedgehog, a guide to asteroids and things that whirl around the solar system

Transportation & Robotics Issue #1

Drones | Chesky / Shutterstock

Dec 11, 2015

Stanford team develops software to predict and prevent drone collisions

Security, Transportation & Robotics

Stanford Professor Fu-Kuo Chang with a carbon-fiber panel that contains an early form of structural health monitoring sensor. Newer sensors would be embedded directly into the material and not visibl

Mar 11, 2014

Stanford professor shapes safety specs for next-generation aircraft

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Stanford aeronautics graduate student Ved Chirayath photographs coral reefs using a 360-degree camera. | Dan Griffin

Oct 16, 2013

Drones open way to new world of coral research

Computation & Data, Environment

Engineers in Stanford’s Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program will embrace exascale computing while developing complex computer models of technologies that could increase the efficiency of s

Aug 1, 2013

Stanford engineers receive award to improve supercomputing and solar efficiency

Energy

Artist’s rendering of the Kepler Space Telescope. | Illustration: NASA

May 20, 2013

Stanford professor and former NASA official explains how NASA might revive the Kepler space telescope

Technology & Society

Diagram depicts the passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. | Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mar 12, 2013

After another near miss, Stanford professor wants to find asteroids that threaten Earth

Technology & Society

Aero & Astro Assistant Professor Sigrid Close. | Photo: Norbert von der Groeben

Feb 20, 2013

Closing in on a Mystery that Impedes Space Exploration

A floor view of the newly installed Sequoia supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. | Photo: Courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories

Jan 25, 2013

Stanford Researchers Break Million-core Supercomputer Barrier

Computation & Data

Illustration of how the mother spacecraft Phobos Surveyor and its ‘hedgehogs’ would work.

Dec 30, 2012

Stanford researchers develop acrobatic space rovers to explore moons and asteroids

An autonomous underwater vehicle being deployed from the Rachel Carson research vessel. A system developed by Stanford researchers and others helps AUVs better explore the ocean floor. Photo: Sarah

Nov 26, 2012

Underwater robots from Stanford smart enough to explore treacherous deep-ocean terrain

Environment, Transportation & Robotics

The Sentinel Space Telescope will map the swarms of large asteroids that populate the inner solar system. | Illustration: Courtesy of B612 Foundation

Jun 28, 2012

Stanford professor oversees development of asteroid early-detection system

Transportation & Robotics

Mechanical engineering Professor Parviz Moin is director of the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP). The image behind him is from a computer model of jet fuel injected into a supers

May 9, 2012

Wild blue yonder: Engineers tackle challenges of hypersonic flight

Transportation & Robotics