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

New chemical sensor chips made with carbon nanotubes could enable rapid, low-cost detection of TNT and poison in rivers, reservoirs.

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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

Each year indoor air pollution, caused in part by cookstoves, is a key factor in the deaths of two million children from acute respiratory infections in developing countries. Since 2006, Stanford researchers have been working in Bangladesh to find practical, low-cost incentives that would encourage people to use cleaner, safer cookstoves.

Tagged: Environmental Research, pollution, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues, Engineering, Medicine

Aquaculture now accounts for half of the fish consumed globally, according to a recent Stanford study. The more than a decade-long trend toward fish farming is straining the resources of some wild fish species, which are harvested to feed the farmed varieties.

Tagged: Environmental Research, fishing, Environment & Sustainability

Globs of human fat removed during liposuction conceal versatile cells that are more quickly and easily coaxed to become induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, than are the skin cells most often used by researchers.

Tagged: Health Research, Human Health, Medicine