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Issue #101

Jun 6 2016
Arun Majumdar: What is the biggest challenge of the 21st-century?
Energy
illustration of hospital beds
Sep 9 2020
AI-controlled sensors could save lives in ‘smart’ hospitals and homes
Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health
a stitched image of flowers and leaves
Sep 3 2020
Scientists turn yeast cells into drug factories
Engineers have genetically reprogrammed the cellular machinery of yeast to create microscopic factories that convert sugars and amino acids into plant-based drugs.
Health
A long exposure of a cars driving on the highway at night
May 5 2020
How we might recharge an electric car as it drives
Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Issue #100

A black woman in a graduation cap and gown looking over a balcony
Jul 20 2020
Sheri Sheppard: How do we educate a new kind of engineer?
Technology & Society
Vector illlustrations of two silhouetted heads facing each other, with gears and wires within them, against a background of many abstract shapes
Aug 14 2020
How thoughts could one day control electronic prostheses, wirelessly
Health
A vector illustration of a female lab researcher looking into a microscope with graphs superimposed in the background
Aug 17 2020
Ken Goodson: How the School of Engineering is taking on COVID-19
A School of Engineering senior associate dean discusses the myriad ways his colleagues throughout the school are discovering new — and often surprising — approaches to combating COVID-19.
Health, Technology & Society
a crack in concrete stairs
Jun 2 2020
How do we measure the economic fallout from earthquakes?
Environment, Technology & Society

Issue #99

A minimalist line sketch of a person looking at a small device screen and having the glow reflect on their face
Aug 20 2020
John Mitchell and Maxwell Bigman: How can we improve online learning?
Technology & Society
a California aqueduct
Aug 13 2020
Newsha Ajami: How engineers restored hope for our water supplies
Environment, Technology & Society
An early image of distributed tutored video instruction
Aug 14 2020
Lessons in remote learning from the 1970s: A Q&A with James Gibbons
The former dean of Stanford Engineering looks to experiments he did more than 45 years ago to help answer the question that’s on everyone’s mind: How will online learning work out?
Technology & Society
A digital illustration of people wearing masks, social distancing, walking, and being connected by dotted lines
Jul 22 2020
Can contact tracing work at COVID scale?
Health