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A glass of purified water at wastewater treatment plant.

Nov 10, 2022

The cleanest drinking water is recycled

Energy, Environment, Health

Photo of a mass of plastic trash floating in water.

Oct 21, 2022

The curious connection between plastic trash and infectious disease

Photo of a modern urban wastewater treatment plant.

Oct 14, 2022

Alexandria Boehm: Wastewater helps reveal COVID’s real reach

A person walking on campus while wearing the exoskeleton boots.

Oct 12, 2022

Untethered exoskeleton walks out into the real world

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Image of a doctor showing a patient something on a digital tablet.

Oct 6, 2022

Is a good diagnosis possible without revealing your medical secrets?

Health, Technology & Society

Illustration of DNA double helix

Oct 5, 2022

Engineers develop new tool for targeted protein production

Image of a building with air condition units hanging from the windows.

Sep 30, 2022

How can we harness wind and improve airflow to benefit society?

Environment, Health

Image of a student using the water fountain at school.

Sep 28, 2022

A water problem that’s still unresolved in schools across the country

Health, Technology & Society

A cartoon representation of lysosomes and a mass spectrometry.

Sep 22, 2022

Sifting through cellular recycling centers

A prototype of a small device with a stretchable and flexible sensor.

Sep 16, 2022

An autonomous wearable device measures a tumor’s changing size

Electronics & Networking, Health, Technology & Society

Hands holding a cell culture dish in a lab setting.

Sep 8, 2022

Researchers construct the most complex, complete synthetic microbiome

Photo of a woman's trembling hands, while holding a water glass.

Aug 19, 2022

How un-syncing the brain can help Parkinson’s patients

Photo of a doctor reviewing patient records in a hospital room.

Aug 18, 2022

How to put AI tools into the hands of primary care physicians

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Photo of a street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Aug 17, 2022

A mobile app can help communities improve their health and well-being

Health, Technology & Society

A woman taking a wastewater sample at a facility on the Stanford campus

Aug 5, 2022

An initiative to monitor wastewater aims to help guide public health responses

Health, School News, Technology & Society

Photo of a patient undergoing a CT scan, while a doctor wears a virtual reality headset.

Jul 25, 2022

Using technologies from the gaming industry to improve medicine

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Photo of a patient's arm with IV drip.

Jul 18, 2022

A cardiologist says embracing diversity will catalyze medical research

Illustration of a man touching his head.

Jun 14, 2022

Computational modeling can help us understand Alzheimer’s disease

Computation & Data, Health

Lab image of a spinning tiny robot

Jun 14, 2022

Tiny robots bring health care closer to precision drug delivery

May 26, 2022

What the humble planarian teaches us about the building blocks of life

An image of a person's hand taking a sample of wastewater for analysis

May 24, 2022

Q&A: Tracking COVID infections through wastewater

Environment, Health

A 3D illustration of a basophil among red blood cells.

May 23, 2022

A new magnetic device could revolutionize allergy diagnosis

Bleached and healthy coral patches spread in shallow water of an island.

May 6, 2022

Is your sunscreen killing corals?

Environment, Health

Image of of various cosmetic gels against a white background.

May 5, 2022

The physics of gel-like substances

Health, Materials