Discoveries, ideas and people to watch
"If you spend enough time around something like baboons, you start to
look at humans differently," said Robert Sapolsky as he delivered an
address to the graduating class of 2009 at Maples
Pavilion.
Tagged: On Campus, Humanities & Sciences
Climate change threatens hundreds of thousands of species, including
the colorful San Francisco Bay checkerspot butterfly, with extinction.
Now Stanford scientists are proposing when and how to save these vulnerable species by moving them to suitable new habitats.
Tagged: climate change, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
A new window allowing scientists to peer a little deeper into the
atomic depths of the universe may soon open, thanks to researchers who
have devised a way to create and observe an elusive, exotic
atom—predicted, but never seen—called "true muonium."
Tagged: physics, Humanities & Sciences
The Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa) has awarded 18 grants for its 2009-10 grant competition.
Tagged: Arts News, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
Stanford scientists have found evidence that some coral reefs are adapting to higher ocean temperatures and
may actually survive global warming.
Tagged: Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Earth Sciences, Humanities & Sciences, Medicine
Using biofuel crops such as corn or switchgrass to generate electricity
for running battery-powered vehicles is a far more efficient way of
producing energy than making ethanol with them, according to Stanford
researchers.
Tagged: bioelectricity, cars, Environmental Research, fuel, Environment & Sustainability, Earth Sciences, Humanities & Sciences
Why write about art? And why read art criticism? The Arts Critics in
Residence series has brought leading arts critics to Stanford campus to
engage with these questions, and to answer them through the example of
their own work.
Tagged: art criticism, Arts News, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences
Stanford is offering Q&A sessions with world-class faculty, such as psychology professor Philip Zimbardo, on its Stanford University Facebook profile. Anyone is welcome to watch the videos and ask questions online at no charge.
Tagged: On Campus, Humanities & Sciences
A hydrogen-rich compound discovered by Stanford researchers is packed
with promise of helping overcome one of the biggest hurdles to using
hydrogen for fuel.
Tagged: conservation, hydrogen, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences
Believing that nature poetry can make us fall in love with nature itself, John Felstiner enlists poets and artists to inspire environmental action.
Tagged: Arts News, Arts & Creativity, Humanities & Sciences