The truth behind pseudoscience: Tarot cards
Your past, present and future—it’s all in the cards. Or is it?
New computer program rapidly detects homes, buildings damaged by wildfires
Developed by scientists at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and Stanford University, DamageMap evaluates the destruction by scrutinizing post-wildfire aerial and satellite images.
Charting the “Bloody” Brine Flows from an Antarctic Glacier
Photographs and field observations yield a more complete historical record of the ebbs and flows of the so-called Blood Falls on Taylor Glacier.
Stanford professor spotlights evolutionary tree concepts with campus trees
More than a century of attentive groundskeeping has turned the Stanford campus into a museum of mathematical phylogenetics, says Noah Rosenberg, creator of the Stanford X-Tree Project.
Extinction not only threatens primates—their parasites are in danger, too
Extinction threatens nearly half of all primate species, largely due to human activities. But alongside them, a hidden world of biodiversity also could disappear: parasites.
Stanford engineers propose a simpler design for quantum computers
A relatively simple quantum computer design that uses a single atom to manipulate photons could be constructed with currently available components.
Stanford course dives into untold histories of inventions
First-year students learn about the winding paths leading to inventions and experiment with electronics.
Mozart I sculpture moves to School of Engineering
Stanford School of Engineering welcomes relocated Mozart I as part of an art expansion effort.
Stuck@Home virtual concert series marks return to campus with live performance
The Medicine & the Muse Program’s Stuck@Home virtual concert series features the artistic talents of the Stanford community. After more than a year online, they had their first in-person performance at Bing Concert Hall.
STEM From Dance
STEM From Dance is exciting young minds about science and technology through a unique route—the arts. Since 2012, the New York City-based organization has been using dance to inspire girls, especially those from underrepresented minority backgrounds, to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to diversify these fields.
Silenced Stories Given New Voice with the Help of Science
“Far too often…science has not only silenced but oppressed [African American] communities,” said Rev. Dr. Robert R. A. Turner, the pastor of the Historic Vernon A.M.E. Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the respondent at a scientific session at the virtual 2021 AAAS Annual Meeting.
SciFi Explores Science, Morality, and Spirituality Throughout Time
Science fiction is the medium we can use to make thought experiments – to test ideas of how we live and how we ought to be living with each other, said Brother Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory, during a virtual discussion on 9 December 2020.
Interactive Science-Art Helps Visualize Underground Contamination
Pollution often conjures images of smokestacks rising into the sky or dirty water flowing down a stream. But what about the pollution beneath our feet—the contamination moving among particles of soil or between grains of sand?
What happens when you put an artist in a science lab?
When Dr. Kevin Mumford agreed to host an artist at his environmental engineering laboratory at Queen’s University, he expected a painter or sculptor to appear. Instead, creative coder Owen Fernley walked through the door, marking the beginning of what would become a surprising and memorable two weeks for the research group.
Meander by Philip Beesley
Want to witness architecture come alive? Now you can with Philip Beesley’s Meander, the largest living architecture sculpture in the world, which is permanently on display at Tapestry Hall in Cambridge, Ontario.
Vanessa Barragão’s Sustainable Seascapes
Portuguese fibre artist Vanessa Barragão creates stunning underwater seascape tapestries that carry a message about the environment. Armed with latch and crochet hooks, discarded yarn scraps, and visions of the sea, she handmakes immense pieces that often center around coral reefs.
D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous
For nearly a decade, the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) has hosted monthly D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) salons to foster conversation and collaboration between scientists, artists, and the public.