Stanford University engineers built a fingernail-sized photonic chip that separates partially coherent light into incoherent components, as detailed in a study published October 30, 2026, in Nature Photonics.
Reminding yourself to smile more often can actively alter your emotional state and lower physical stress responses.
Researchers at Stanford University have discovered that bleached coral can fully recover within seven weeks through brief physical contact with healthy, genetically identical…
Netflix is launching The New Stanford Prison Experiment on Wednesday, October 21, dropping 30 participants into a real Georgia correctional facility to recreate the infamous 1971…
Ancient DNA from more than 1,000 Polynesians reveals that Native Hawaiians share their closest genetic ties with the Rapa Nui of Easter Island, more than 4,400 miles away.
American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for pioneering models that guide central banks and governments…
A new AI system developed by MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and Stanford University has mastered Stratego, outperforming top human players and previous…
Researchers at Stanford University have created mice with brains composed of roughly half human nerve cells by implanting lab-grown organoids into rodents engineered to lack a…
Stanford University researchers have discovered that the human brain evolved not as a single unified organ, but as two distinct ancient nervous systems cleverly packaged together.
The brain is an immeasurably complex organ, and we’re only just scratching the surface of how it even comes into existence.
Stanford University physicists have recorded the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, capturing individual phonons making sudden…
Stanford University researchers have successfully transplanted lab-grown human brain organoids into mice genetically engineered without a cerebral cortex or hippocampus, creating…