Issue #118 | Stanford University School of Engineering

Issue #118

New software and hardware taps into the brain to convert thoughts about handwriting into text on a computer screen. | Unsplash/Aaron Burden

May 26, 2021

New software turns ‘mental handwriting’ into words on computer screens

Artificial Intelligence, Health

An algorithm can identify similar cell types across species separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. | Getty Images

May 26, 2021

Bioengineers develop an algorithm to compare cells across species

Environment, Technology & Society

A robotic gripper, developed by Stanford engineers, was tested aboard the ISS. | From a video by Kurt Hickman

May 24, 2021

Stanford ‘gecko gripper’ tested on the International Space Station

Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Parsonnet says every vaccine given is a step in the direction of “normal.” | Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne

May 21, 2021

Julie Parsonnet: How faith in herd immunity may be misplaced

Health, Technology & Society