A New York Times blogger, as well as dozens of fans on Stanford's Facebook profile, rave about Tom McFadden's science-infused rap videos.

Tagged: biology, students, On Campus, Humanities & Sciences

From hair color to the ancestral line of parasitic bacteria, scientists can glean a lot from genes. But imagine if genes also revealed where you lived or who you spent time with. It turns out they do, if you know where and how to look.

Stanford researchers with collaborators at Tel-Aviv University have now laid the foundation for opening such a window to the past using a technique called "reverse ecology."

Tagged: biology, ecology, genome, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences

VIDEO: Explore coral reefs from home through a three minute "microdoc" video co-created by a Stanford marine biologist. A new website offers over 30 such mini-documentaries designed to demystify ecological sustainability.

Tagged: biology, ocean, science, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences

“Biology is a science in flux because it has gone from being purely experimental on small scales to becoming an information science on a large scale,” says Daphne Koller, who is is leveraging artificial intelligence to infer what’s happening in complex biological systems.

Tagged: artificial intelligence, biology, proteins, Human Health, Engineering

Stress is killing us, according to scientists, and a new National Geographic special exploring the latest research on how and why features Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, who has spent decades studying stress in humans and baboons.

Tagged: biology, stress, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences

Biodiversity is essential to the earth's air, clean water and food, but how best to preserve biodiversity has been a subject of ongoing debate. A multi-pronged approach is the only way humanity can pull it off, according to Stanford biologists Paul Ehrlich and Robert Pringle.

Tagged: biodiversity, biology, conservation, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences