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Stanford Engineering Magazine

Issue #57

Oct 2 2018
Can urinary tract infections be treated without antibiotics?
Health
Invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast
Oct 12 2018
​A recent discovery reveals a new way breast cancer cells spread
Health
Illustration of people with cellphones
Oct 9 2018
​Riana Pfefferkorn: How are the boundaries of digital privacy shifting?
The growing power and prevalence of smart devices are reshaping the definition of personal privacy in the digital age.​
Electronics & Networking, Security, Technology & Society
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
Oct 12 2018
How do we cope with demands for water as we enter an era of scarcity?
Environment
Heavy traffic in the Los Angeles area
Oct 4 2018
​Balaji Prabhakar: Can digital incentives help alleviate traffic?
Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Issue #56

Close-up of water pouring out of a spigot
Sep 24 2018
In Africa, access to clean water isn’t just about pipes and pumps
Health
Illustration of a rice-grain-shaped particle rotating
Sep 24 2018
New computer model designs a drug delivery strategy to fight cancer
Health
Oct 1 2018
What hovering animals can teach us about flying robots
To find out, ​engineers teamed up with ecologists in Costa Rica to meticulously record the flight of over 100 different bats and hummingbirds.
Transportation & Robotics
The face and hand of the JackRabbot 2
Sep 19 2018
​JackRabbot 2: The polite pedestrian robot
Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics
Sep 19 2018
Last straw: The path to reducing plastic pollution
Environment

Issue #55

photo of Mars
Aug 21 2018
Is there life on Mars?
Transportation & Robotics
A closeup of water pipes running along a plaster wall
Sep 10 2018
Could water utilities evolve the way the electric sector did?
Energy, Environment
Illustration of colorful shapes coming out of person's head
Sep 14 2018
Can we all learn to be creative?
Tina Seelig, a professor of management science and engineering, says yes. Here’s how.
A tall building
Aug 28 2018
​Sarah Billington: How we shape our buildings — and how they shape us
Environment, Health
A closeup of dancing feet
Sep 14 2018
A video editing algorithm gives ordinary motion a dance-like rhythm
Computation & Data, Technology & Society