Growing Climate Solutions: Climate-Smart Agriculture
Stanford Earth scientists discuss climate-smart agriculture. A bill under debate in Congress would pave the way to verifying and paying for farms’ carbon savings. Stanford…
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Build Back Smaller? Extinction and Origination Patterns Change After Mass Extinctions
A sweeping analysis of marine fossils from most of the past half-billion years shows the usual rules of body size evolution change during mass extinctions…
Stanford Reveals Potential of an Overlooked Climate Change Solution
Analyses lay out a blueprint for speeding development of atmospheric removal and modeling how the approach could improve human health and have an outsized effect…
Plants Didn’t Evolve Gradually – They Evolved Complexity in Two Dramatic Bursts 250-Million-Years Apart
A Stanford-led study reveals that rather than evolving gradually over hundreds of millions of years, land plants underwent major diversification in two dramatic bursts, 250 million…
Lipitor May Be Effective Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis
There may be good news for the nearly 1 million people battling ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel condition with no real cure: Statins,…
Mystery of Icy Plumes That May Foretell Deadly Supercell Storms Solved by Stanford Scientists
The most devastating tornadoes are often preceded by a cloudy plume of ice and water vapor billowing above a severe thunderstorm. New research reveals the…
“Mini” CRISPR Genetic Editing System Engineered – Easier To Deliver Into Human Cells for Gene Therapy
Bioengineers have repurposed a “non-working” CRISPR system to make a smaller version of the genome engineering tool. Its diminutive size should make it easier to…
Stanford AI Algorithm Solves Structural Biology Challenges
Stanford machine learning algorithm predicts biological structures more accurately than ever before. Stanford researchers develop machine learning methods that accurately predict the 3D shapes of…
Milder COVID-19 Symptoms Tied to Prior Run-Ins With Other (Common Cold) Coronaviruses
In COVID-19 patients whose symptoms were mild, Stanford researchers found that they were more likely than sicker patients to have signs of prior infection by…
Scientists Turn Harmful Methane Into Methanol at Room Temperature
A “tantalizing” ” principle borrowed from nature turns harmful methane into useful methanol at room temperature. A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University…
Stanford Research Shows Why Second Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine Shouldn’t Be Skipped
The second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine induces a powerful boost to a part of the immune system that provides broad antiviral protection, according to…
Strange Black Hole Discovery Confirms Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
First Detection of Light From Behind a Black Hole Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of…
Stanford Device Enables Thousands of Synthetic DNA Enzyme Experiments To Run Simultaneously
A new tool that enables thousands of tiny experiments to run simultaneously on a single polymer chip will let scientists study enzymes faster and more…
High-Speed Cameras Reveal Bubbles Popping Like Blooming Flowers
Researchers at Stanford and the University of Naples studying how bubbles form and eventually burst use high-speed cameras and analytical modeling to reveal a new…
Using Solar Radio Signals to Monitor Melting Ice Sheets
A new method for seeing through ice sheets using radio signals from the sun could enable cheap, low-power, and widespread monitoring of ice sheet evolution…
Immune System “Clock” Developed That Accurately Predicts Illness and Mortality
You’re as old as your immune system. Investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have built…
Turning Nature’s Virus Fighters Into Powerful Drugs: Synthetic “Peptoids” to Cure Diseases
Antimicrobial peptides fight viral diseases but a structural flaw makes them difficult to use as drugs. A deft molecular fix could create synthetic “peptoids” to…
Stanford’s New Open-Source Software for Designing Sustainable Cities
New technology could help cities around the world improve people’s lives while saving billions of dollars. The free, open-source software developed by the Stanford Natural Capital Project creates maps…
