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Stanford Engineering Magazine | Issue #122

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Closeup of robotic cane

Oct 15, 2021

A team of researchers build a $400 self-navigating smart cane

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society

Statues on Easter Island

Oct 12, 2021

Researchers use genetic clues to track and date Polynesian exploration

Health, Technology & Society

Illustration of a dropper with gel

Oct 4, 2021

Eric Appel: Gels are changing the face of engineering ... and medicine

Environment, Health, Materials

Illustration of rows of hospital beds

Oct 1, 2021

Lianne Kurina: How controlling confounders makes better epidemiology

Close-up of the ankle exoskeleton emulator

Sep 30, 2021

Stanford exoskeleton research demonstrates the importance of training

Health, Transportation & Robotics

Spheres in the Engineering quad

Sep 27, 2021

Stanford School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

Vehicle engines spew lots of methane. | iStock/milehightraveler

Sep 24, 2021

Pretreatment of palladium with steam could improve methane combustion

Energy, Environment, Materials

If you think design is only for creatives who pump out slick-looking products, prepare to be surprised. | Illustration by Michael Hirshon

Sep 22, 2021

Sarah Stein Greenberg: Got a problem? Think like a designer.

Technology & Society

Soon, there’ll be a faster, more efficient chip for every task, but it’ll take industry-wide cooperation to get there. | Stocksy/Cosma Andrei

Sep 21, 2021

Priyanka Raina: How computer chips get speedier through specialization

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

New analytic methods that could help desalination engineers weigh the many factors that go into building a desalination plant. | Stocksy/Jesse Morrow

Sep 17, 2021

New research looks to lower the high cost of desalination

Environment, Technology & Society

A new algorithm can help drones and other similar low-power robots decide when and when not to off-load their AI tasks. | iStock/evandrorigon

Sep 16, 2021

Solving the robot off-loading problem

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Stanford scholars say that technological innovation is not an inevitable force that exercises power over us. | Image by Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Sep 14, 2021

How to change the future of technology

Security, Technology & Society

Alison Marsden next to a research poster

Sep 10, 2021

Alison Marsden: Academia was the only real career path I considered

CasMINI could delete, activate and edit genetic code just like its beefier counterparts. | Image credit: Stanley Qi/Pan Andrii/Shutterstock.com

Sep 8, 2021

Researchers develop a hypercompact CRISPR

Computational prediction of the structures into which RNAs fold is important because so few structures are known. | Image by Camille L.L. Townshend

Aug 26, 2021

An algorithm predicts biological structures more accurately than ever

Computation & Data, Health

Biondi’s sensor arrays are so sensitive they can detect sinkholes, landslides and even the rumblings of failing infrastructure. | iStock/rottadana

Aug 24, 2021

Biondo Biondi: How to measure an earthquake through the internet

Computation & Data, Security, Technology & Society

The surgical room in Israel where one of the kidney transplants took place. | Image courtesy of Itai Ashlagi

Aug 12, 2021

Engineers develop a new algorithm to aid kidney transplant exchanges

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society

Aug 9, 2021

Emmanuel Candès: How to increase certainty in predictive modeling

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

A new technology will make your phone much smarter. | Adobe Stock/elenabsl

Jul 29, 2021

New ‘AI-at-the-edge’ smartphone chip lives, and learns, close to home

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

HT-MEK combines microfluidics and cell-free protein synthesis technologies to dramatically speed up the study of enzymes. | Image by Daniel Mokhtari

Jul 22, 2021

A new tool drastically speeds up the study of enzymes