Secretary of Energy Steven Chu returned to Stanford recently, urging a crowd of more than 700 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to confront what he called "the energy challenge."

Tagged: Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences

Comparative effectiveness research is generating buzz these days, with the recent economic stimulus package allocating $1.1 billion for these types of studies. But a researcher at the School of Medicine is asking policymakers to take a step back and make sure that the plans for comparative effectiveness research go deep enough to make a difference.

Tagged: Human Health, Public Service, Medicine

At any moment, the winds in high-altitude jet streams hold roughly 100 times more energy than all the electricity being consumed on Earth, according to a study by Stanford environmental and climate scientists Cristina Archer and Ken Caldeira.

Tagged: Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences

Synthetic fertilizers have dramatically increased food production worldwide. But the unintended costs to the environment and human health have been substantial.

Tagged: Environmental Research, farming, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences

For many Democrats, the key issue in health-care reform is the creation of a government health insurance program to compete with the private sector. Stanford's Victor Fuchs, a leading health economist, is skeptical of the idea.

Tagged: health care reform, insurance, Human Health, Public Service, Medicine

Physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.

Tagged: Humanities & Sciences

Air travel is projected to triple in the next 30 years. Stanford researchers are working to reduce the environmental impact of this increase by finding innovative ways to reduce aviation energy requirements and noise pollution.

Tagged: aviation, conservation, Environment & Sustainability, Engineering

Telling them that more than half the world's population lives "outside the law," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told Stanford graduates to spread American principles of justice, especially in places that resist them.

Tagged: commencement, On Campus, Law