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

Water is familiar to everyone – it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery, with the substance exhibiting many strange properties that are still poorly understood. Recent work, however, is shedding new light on water's molecular idiosyncrasies.

Tagged: water, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences

Whenever Philip Zimbardo asked his Italian grandfather where his family came from, the answer was vague—a little village outside Palermo. That small burg, however, was to have a major impact on the emeritus psychology professor’s life. His effect on his ancestral village has been just as big.

Tagged: Italy, scholarships, Public Service, Humanities & Sciences

Current diagnostic tests for ovarian cancer are woefully ineffective for early detection of the disease, say researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Tagged: Health Research, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine

Going out like a brilliant flame is one way to get attention. If physicians could watch tumor cells committing a form of programmed suicide called apoptosis, a desired effect of workhorse cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, they could more quickly pick the most effective treatment. Now scientists at the Stanford School of Medicine have found a way to do just that, by lighting up cells as they die.

Tagged: cancer, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences

Students answer questions - including yours - about sustainable living.

Tagged: conservation, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences