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An expert in the spread of misinformation talks about how we might at last conquer falsehood and the surprising new direction his work is taking him.

A team of researchers argues that AI enables a form of congestion pricing that could make everyone at every income level better off.

Faster supercomputers and better modeling are being paired with optimized wind tunnels and flight testing to design new-age commercial airplanes.

Stanford Data Science invite applications for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor or untenured associate professor level in the School of Engineering.

Scholars propose a way to help mobile robots choose when to communicate with the cloud without latency or lost data issues.

Stanford researchers develop machine learning methods that accurately predict the 3D shapes of drug targets and other important biological molecules, even with limited data.

New technologies that detect motion in the Earth’s crust are emerging in surprising places and reshaping our understanding of earthquakes.

Today’s predictive algorithms carry too much uncertainty says one mathematician, who is working to bring confidence to the models that, increasingly, rule our lives.

Equipped with grippy but not sticky gecko-inspired adhesives, the robotic gripper could be particularly well-suited for tasks such as collecting debris and servicing satellites.

A chemical engineering professor discusses how he learned to be a better educator: "I love supporting my graduate students and helping move them along their way."

A geneticist explains why biology, a field once thought relatively removed from mathematics, is quickly becoming a hotbed of computational science.

A civil and environmental engineer describes how engineering is designing better built environments that shape rather than bend to the will of the wind.

The Turing Award-winning computer scientist discusses his path to Stanford and how his approach to working with students is informed by his work with the cofounder of Pixar.

An aptitude for athletics helped transform a professor of management science and engineering from a rice farmer during China’s Cultural Revolution into a world-renowned scholar.