The most impressive uses of artificial intelligence rely on good data—and lots of it. Chatbots, for example, learn to converse from millions of web pages full of text. Autonomous vehicles learn to drive from sensor data ...
Aug 29, 2023
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The first time it happened, I was in a high school physics class. Suddenly, I couldn't read half of the board. A crack zig-zagged through my vision, obscuring my teacher's notes. "Huh," I thought. "This can't be good."
Aug 24, 2023
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As the new school year begins, parents may be wondering how to help teens protect their mental health as they engage with peers on social media.
Aug 23, 2023
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Glioblastoma is a swift and aggressive brain cancer, with an average life expectancy of about one year after diagnosis. It's difficult to treat, in part because the cellular makeup of each tumor varies greatly from person ...
Aug 23, 2023
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As civilization ground to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, trapping humans like caged mice, addiction expert Keith Humphreys could only agonize over the collateral damage. America was already losing the war on addiction ...
Aug 19, 2023
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Extreme heat threatens the health of vulnerable populations such as children, laborers, and the elderly. A Stanford pediatrician, emergency medicine doctor, and professor of Earth system science discuss how we can best adapt ...
Aug 15, 2023
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The number of babies born with severe congenital heart defects will increase because of new U.S. abortion bans, potentially straining the health care system's capacity to meet their needs, according to research from the Stanford ...
Aug 14, 2023
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Climate change and human activity are enabling the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, like dengue fever, to new places. Stanford infectious disease experts and disease ecologists discuss what we know and how communities can ...
Aug 9, 2023
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A protein famed among scientists and clinicians for its ability to suppress the development of many types of tumors may just be moonlighting as a cancer fighter, a recent study by researchers at Stanford Medicine found. The ...
Aug 9, 2023
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By the time multiple sclerosis is normally diagnosed—when brain lesions appear on magnetic resonance imaging scans—the patient can have irreversible damage and treatment options can be limited. But in a Stanford Medicine-led ...
Aug 8, 2023
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