Discoveries, ideas and people to watch
Chile's once-fledgling salmon aquaculture industry is now the second largest in the world. But that massive economic growth has had equally massive environmental and social effects, say researchers.
Tagged: Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Paleoanthropologist David DeGusta's analysis of 4-million-year-old fossils helps explain how human ancestors came down from the trees and began walking.
Tagged: On Campus, Humanities & Sciences
Stanford students team with their peers at Makerere University in Kampala to examine their preconceptions of each other.
Tagged: Africa, dance, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
For Lukas Felzmann, great photos don't happen in a moment. They are the result of "extended attention and receptiveness."
The art lecturer is one among a baker's dozen of faculty artists, photographers, printmakers, sculptors and filmmakers from the Department of Art and Art History who are exhibiting their works at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts.
Tagged: Cantor Center, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
Half of California could be occupied by new bird communities by 2070, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford and partner institutions
Tagged: California, climate change, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Stanford researchers are using
genetic engineering and some of the world's smallest microscopes to
better understand how specific circuits in the brain operate.
Tagged: brain imaging, NeuroVentures, Human Health, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine
Scientists from Stanford University have teamed up with Israeli and Jordanian researchers to protect the Gulf of Aqaba, a strategic waterway whose fragile marine ecosystem is vital to both Israel and Jordan.
Tagged: Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Think you can talk on the phone, send an instant message and read your e-mail all at once? Stanford researchers say even trying may impair your cognitive control.
Tagged: Human Health, Humanities & Sciences
Philosophy Talk is a radio program with an attitude – an attitude that philosophy is more than a mandarin pastime for unworldly academics. Its agenda is ambitious: "I want to affect public life. There's a place for us," said Professor Kenneth Taylor, co-host for the program. "I want more philosophy."Tagged: Facebook, philosophy, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences
Five out of 10 global ecosystems once threatened by overfishing are
on the mend, according to a new study. A collaboration of scientists
from seven countries analyzed fish populations around the world and
found that the mass of fish removed from the ocean every year has
decreased in some fisheries.
Tagged: Environmental Research, fishing, oceans, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences