Discoveries, ideas and people to watch
Ancient Greece. Two royal princesses, two different choices. Their
father had been murdered years before by their mother, who now reigns
with her lover. One daughter complies unwillingly with the new regime;
the other is punished for resisting. Life, as they say, “moves on” for
the rest of the populace.
Tagged: theater, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
Astronomers now have a better understanding of how stars progress, thanks to NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope that has detected numerous pulsars by the gamma rays they emit.
Tagged: NASA, pulsar, space, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences
Wild sheep on the Scottish island of Hirta have been diminishing in
size for over 20 years and now researchers have puzzled out why: It's
the heat. Like wool socks run through the dryer, the sheep have shrunk.
Tagged: Louis Bergeron, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
No doubt you’ve worked hard for your success. But chances are you’ve also had some help and lucky breaks along the way. So are you more likely to vote for conservative or liberal politicians and causes?
Tagged: psychology, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences
“Geoengineering” experiments proposed to reduce global warming by
blocking sunlight with atmosphere-injected particles may cool the world
but still leave carbon dioxide levels dangerously high, Stanford
scientists say.
Tagged: climate change, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
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."
"Life in the fast lane" is a contemporary phrase we often use to
describe exciting, action-packed events in our lives, but just what is
the human obsession with speed? Jeffrey Schnapp explores this very question in a new museum exhibit.
Tagged: Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
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
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