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Engineers are concerned about everything from the availability of raw materials to how many miles can I go before I run out of juice? | iStock/Jeff_Hu

Jun 30, 2021

Simona Onori: How ready are we for our electric future?

Electronics & Networking, Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Bendable, shapeable computer circuits, worn on or implanted in the human body, could perform many health-related tasks. | iStock/Ilya Lukichev

Jun 17, 2021

Engineers develop a new technique to manufacture flexible electronics

Electronics & Networking, Health

New research allows a patient with paralysis to “write” their thoughts at some 17 words per minute, setting a new record. | Stocksy/Chris Zielecki

Jun 3, 2021

Krishna Shenoy: How brain-computer connections could end paralysis

Electronics & Networking, Health

The future will be dominated by AI | iStock/mmustafabozdemir

Mar 29, 2021

Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

A protoype of the RT-ELISA, essentially an entire lab within a chip with tiny pipes and valves no wider than a human hair | Photo by Caitlin Maikawa

Jan 4, 2021

A new lab-on-a-chip turns blood test snapshots into continuous movies

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Health

An artist’s rendition of the photoacoustic airborne sonar system operating from a drone to sense and image underwater objects. | Image by Kindea Labs

Nov 30, 2020

Stanford engineers combine light and sound to see underwater

Electronics & Networking, Environment

It could be years before wireless chargers become embedded in highways, but there are fewer roadblocks for robots and aerial drones. | Unsplash/Kimi Lee

May 5, 2020

How we might recharge an electric car as it drives

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

A new chip-based navigation technology could make autonomous cars economically viable. | ScienceSource/Andrzej Wojcicki

Apr 14, 2020

Could shrinking a key component make autonomous cars affordable?

Electronics & Networking, Transportation & Robotics

Gold still behaves like a solid at the nanoscale, says Stanford’s Wendy Gu | Unsplash/Aaron Munoz

Mar 24, 2020

As electronics shrink to nanoscale, will they still be good as gold?

Electronics & Networking, Materials

Researchers were able to lay the groundwork for creating quantum sources with controllable properties, such as color, intensity and position. | Getty Images/metamorworks

Feb 26, 2020

A team of researchers explore the defects in quantum materials

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Materials

The adoption of wearable electronics is limited by their need to derive power from bulky, rigid batteries that reduce comfort. | Unsplash/Nadine Shaabana

Jan 15, 2020

A new stretchable battery can power wearable electronics

Electronics & Networking

A bright idea for the next generation of chips. | Illustration by Sarah Rieke

Dec 2, 2019

Can we develop computer chips that run on light?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Materials

Without this advance, the chips required to build an artificial retina would burn human eye tissue. | Unsplash/Createria, Pixabay/DavidZydd

Oct 10, 2019

An artificial retina that could help restore sight to the blind

Electronics & Networking, Health

Could this be a boon for the development of next-generation electric vehicles? | Shutterstock/Scharfsinn

Sep 9, 2019

A new coating brings lithium metal batteries closer to reality

Electronics & Networking, Transportation & Robotics

So long silicon? An experimental diamond chip that harnesses light could lead to a new era of quantum data processing. | ScienceSource/David Parker

Aug 26, 2019

Quantum technology seeks to control light with unerring precision

Electronics & Networking

It takes only a few layers of atoms to create a potential heat barrier. | Illustration by Drea Sullivan

Aug 26, 2019

An electronic heat shield just 10 atoms thick

Electronics & Networking, Materials

As hackers develop new ways to attack chips, researchers aim to anticipate and forestall their malicious intrusions. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 18, 2019

Q&A: What’s new in the effort to prevent hackers from hijacking chips?

Electronics & Networking

How will high speed finance disrupt our financial institutions? | Unsplash/Martin Ceralde

Apr 2, 2019

How is Silicon Valley changing Wall Street?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

But first, we need ways to measure how efficiently quantum dots reemit the light they absorb. | iStock/phochi

Mar 25, 2019

Beyond powering QLED TVs, quantum dots could lead to new technologies

Electronics & Networking, Materials, Technology & Society

A Stanford-led team figured out how to pack many of the functions of an entire computer onto a single chip. | Pexels/jéshoots and Drea Sullivan

Feb 20, 2019

Engineers create prototype computer-on-a-chip

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

What better way is there to understand ride-share platforms, than to become a certified driver? | Reuters/Simon Dawson

Jan 14, 2019

Paul Oyer: Where, exactly, is the gig economy taking us?

Electronics & Networking

Exposure to the extremes of radiation causes electronic devices to fail. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Dec 7, 2018

How do we build electronic materials that can survive radiation?

Electronics & Networking, Materials

Factors including financial capital, a healthy workforce and political will contribute to a region's resilience. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Nov 27, 2018

Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

A new technology aims to protect electronics from heat’s harmful effects. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Nov 9, 2018

How can we design electronic devices that don’t overheat?

Electronics & Networking, Materials