Bioengineering

A future filled with renewable solar and wind energy will require more and better batteries. | Stocksy/Adrian P Young

Apr 10, 2020

William Chueh: How to build a better battery

Energy, Environment, Materials

From home, research into COVID-19 | iStock/wenjin chen

Apr 9, 2020

Russ Altman: Artificial intelligence takes on COVID-19

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society Issue #92

Better data can help. | Reuters Pictures/David Ryder

Apr 8, 2020

Nigam Shah: A researcher turns to data to fight the COVID-19 virus

Computation & Data, Health Issue #93

What’s going on inside? | Science Source/David M. Phillips

Apr 3, 2020

Alex Dunn: When cells communicate by nudging one another

Stanford researchers helped lead the nationwide scientific team behind N95decon.org | Unsplash/Brian McGowan

Apr 2, 2020

A website shows how hospitals can decontaminate and reuse N95 masks

Health, Technology & Society Issue #91

The colors in the image above show the patterns that govern how neurons are arranged in the brain of an experimental worm. | Courtesy of Wang lab

Mar 26, 2020

Surprise! A hidden pattern drives brain growth

Health Issue #91

The synthetic mesh (in gold) can change the behavior of neurons shown here. | Ella Maru Studio and Yoon Seok Kim/Jia Liu, Deisseroth/Bao Labs)

Mar 24, 2020

A team of scientists invent a method to modify the behavior of cells

Health

A magical place, but it’s in trouble | Unsplash/Francesco Ungaro

Mar 16, 2020

Fiorenza Micheli: The race to save the ocean

Environment, Technology & Society Issue #90

Can scientists find a way to rejuvenate knee and other joints? | Stocksy/Paul Schlemmer

Mar 6, 2020

Could gene editing enable us to reverse some of the ravages of aging?

Health

Birds of a feather flock together — but how? | Unsplash/Nathan Dumlao

Mar 6, 2020

Nick Ouellette: What flocks of birds can tell us about engineering

Computation & Data, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #90

PTSD has historically been hidden in plain sight. | iStock/Julia Tochilina

Feb 28, 2020

Shaili Jain: Treatments for PTSD are more effective than ever

Health Issue #90

What’s in those files? | ScienceSource/Christopher W. Morrow

Feb 21, 2020

Michelle Mello: Patient privacy and the law are on a collision course

Health, Technology & Society Issue #89

Liver cells | ScienceSource/MedImage

Feb 19, 2020

A new technology improves how we identify and treat diseased cells

Health Issue #88

Vaccinations carry very little to no risk for the vaccinated. | Stocksy/Cara Dolan

Feb 19, 2020

Bonnie Maldonado: The science is clear. Vaccinations save lives.

Health, Technology & Society Issue #88

We need large-scale efforts to battle air pollution, says Stanford allergy and asthma specialist Sharon Chinthrajah. | Unsplash/Fabian Møller

Jan 21, 2020

Sharon Chinthrajah: The air is making us sick

Environment, Health, Technology & Society Issue #87

The stakes are high: Better education is key to solving big societal challenges, like poverty alleviation. | Stocksy/MaaHoo Studio

Jan 10, 2020

Emma Brunskill: Amped-up education with AI

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #85

Better movement is key to better health. | Unsplash/Phil Coffman

Dec 13, 2019

Scott Delp: Better gait, better life

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society Issue #87

We all know exercise is good for us, but we still don’t do it as much as we should.| iStock/ZamoraA

Dec 9, 2019

Beyond fitness trackers: Motivating the unmotivated to exercise more

Health Issue #84

The ability to detect DNA in blood led to the development of a broad array of noninvasive medical tests. | Science Source/Wladimir Bulgar

Nov 22, 2019

Stephen Quake: What can the DNA in your blood reveal about your health?

Health, Technology & Society Issue #83

The drug deploys a decoy protein to interrupt a set of chain reactions that result in rapid tumor growth. | iStock/Liudmyla Klymenko

Nov 13, 2019

Is it possible to slow tumor growth in one type of lung cancer?

Health Issue #82

Can we use information about individual patients to more effectively detect and treat cancer? | iStock/Pitchayanan Kongkaew

Oct 29, 2019

Ash Alizadeh: A New Age in Oncology

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Any insight into a cell’s weaknesses is important information. | iStock/monkik

Oct 22, 2019

What can the structure of bacteria tell us about fighting infection?

Health Issue #81

Do the guard rails for ethical science obstruct progress for the benefit of society or do they keep us safe? | Science Source/Pasieka

Oct 8, 2019

Mildred Cho: Ethics in the age of easy gene editing

Health

Modern robotic technologies could help people with artificial limbs walk with less effort, more quickly and with better balance. | iStock/JohnnyGreig

Sep 23, 2019

Steven H. Collins: New prosthetics should be better than the real thing

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Materials Issue #80