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She Finally Earned Her Stanford Master’s Degree at 105: ‘I’ve waited a long time for this’
Stanford University's 2024 graduation ceremony featured a 105-year-old student completing a master's degree in education—83 years after she started her coursework.
Eight decades ago her...
Scientists at Stanford Revitalize Batteries By Bringing ‘Dead’ Lithium Back to Life
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University may have found a way to revitalize rechargeable lithium batteries,...
El Diseñador de Stanford Fabrica Ladrillos con Hongos de Rápido Crecimiento que Son Más Fuertes que el Concreto
Usando micelio, el diseñador del área de la bahía Phil Ross crea un arco de 6X6 con raíces de hongos convertidas en ladrillos, y luego quiere construir una casa.
Stanford Designer is Making Bricks Out of Fast-Growing Mushrooms That Are Stronger than Concrete
While there aren't any species of mushroom large enough to live in, one Bay-area designer thinks he can make one if he only cranks...
Stanford Engineers Create Artificial “Skin” to Allow Prosthetics to Feel
Stanford engineers have created a plastic "skin" that can detect how hard it is being pressed and generate an electric signal to deliver this...
Stanford Just Made Tuition Free for Families Earning Below $125K
Sixteen percent of students admitted to Stanford University for the upcoming fall semester are first-generation college students, and that number may continue to grow...
Stanford Whiz Kids Develop an Amazing Cheap Fix for Clubfoot
Clubfoot affects one in every thousand newborns, causing their feet to turn inwards, making it look like they’re walking on their ankles. Treatment can...
Free Online Courses From Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Transform Learning Worldwide
A new online education platform founded by Stanford Computer Science Professors is on a mission to change the world by educating millions of people...
Stanford Physicists Make New Form of Matter
Within the exotic world of macroscopic quantum effects, where fluids flow uphill, wires conduct without electrical resistance and magnets levitate, there is an even...
Apple Archive Donated to Stanford Offers Look at Company Origins (w/ Video
In 1997, soon after Steve Jobs returned to the company, Apple officials contacted Stanford University and offered to donate a storehouse of materials Apple...
Inspired by Steve Jobs, Stanford Business Grad Follows her Heart to Help the Poor
At her Stanford commencement ceremony in 2005, Kamael Sugrim listened intently to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
A year after he was first diagnosed with cancer,...
Stanford Operates a Design School for World-Changers
In the quest to develop practical solutions to the world's problems, this school doesn't really have classrooms. Instead, there are clusters of discussion and...
Dalai Lama, Passionate About Science, Advocates at Stanford for Secular Compassion
The Dalai Lama returned this week on his third visit to Stanford University, drawn to the scientific research conducted at its Center for Compassion...
Good Goes Viral: Stanford Class Focuses on Social Media for Public Good
Through an experimental class at Stanford's Graduate School of Business that tries to use social media for the public good, a trio of students...
Good News in History, November 17
151 years ago today, the Rival cities of Buda and Pest put their differences aside and their names together to form Budapest—the capital of...
Study Raises Hopes of Treating Aggressive Cancers by Identifying Fragments of Rogue DNA
A breakthrough in understanding how and why some cancer tumors are particularly aggressive and non-responsive to treatments has placed blame on breakaway strands of...
Good News in History, October 8
On this day in 1945, the microwave oven was patented by Percy Spencer. The self-taught engineer from Howland, Maine, employed by Raytheon at the...
Good News in History September 15
Many happy returns to a brilliant Brit, Tom Hardy, who turns 47 years old today. The London actor got his start in Ridley Scott's Black...
Simple, Cheap Food Dye Makes Skin Transparent to Give Doctors a ‘Window’ into the Body
A revolutionary new technique uses food dye to provide a "window" into the body by making skin transparent.
By applying a mixture of water and...
Good News in History, September 4
Happy 62nd birthday to the Japanese Nobel laureate, Sinya Yamanaka, whose pioneering work in the science of stem cells led him to identify the...