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A scathing report about the Murray Darling Basin Authority highlights the importance of climate change risks to public sector companies.
Snorkeling off the California coast, a high school student found heaps of golf balls on the ocean floor. With a marine scientist, she showed that golf courses were producing tons of plastic pollution.
Most tech companies make it difficult for users to say no to aggressive surveillance practices. But it is helpful to know about the default settings on your smartphone and how to change them.
Developing drugs is typically the domain of large pharmaceutical companies. But here is an example of drug development for a rare pediatric brain cancer that was done in a university setting.
La demande énergétique en hausse est l’un des facteurs explicatifs de cette tendance.
For the second year in a row global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels have risen, putting 2018 on course to set a new record, according to an annual audit from the Global Carbon Project.
Thirty percent of global emissions will be generated from democracies governed by populist nationalist leaders who have very different playbooks than more traditional politicians.
The Ixil people of Guatemala dream of the places where their dead, massacred during the country's armed conflict might be located.
Des habitants ixil, au Guatémala, rêvent des lieux où se trouvent leurs morts, massacrés pendant la guerre civile et aident ainsi l’équipe médico-légale à creuser et identifier. Récit.
Noncommunicable diseases are a growing problem in Africa. Among women, heart disease is a particular concern. Medication to treat it can interfere with pregnancy, making women undesirable partners.
These single-celled organisms naturally respond to the Earth's weak magnetic field. Scientists are untangling how it all works, looking to future biomedical and other engineering applications.
Providing text-message tips to parents on how to make their children stronger readers can make a difference, but only if parents don't get too many or too few text messages, researchers find.
¿No logra conciliar el sueño? No se preocupe. Hacerlo demasiado podría empeorar su situación. Pero realizar cambios sencillos, como no usar dispositivos digitales antes de acostarse, ayudará.
Are you sleep deprived? Don't worry. That might make the situation worse. Instead, make some simple adjustments, such as staying off digital devices an hour before bedtime.
Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters threaten. New research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to move.
Growth mindset interventions work as well as many educational programs, at a fraction of the cost. And they are just in their infancy, says the Stanford researcher who developed mindset theory.
Last summer one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves calved an iceberg the size of Delaware – but scientists say other less dramatic changes reveal more about how and why Antarctica is changing.
Figuring out what causes diseases like autism, schizophrenia and depression is tricky. Now Stanford University researchers are turning blood into brain cells to study these diseases in a dish.
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Research Scholar, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
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Anthropologist, Stanford University
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Cardiology Fellow Physician, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
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Graduate Fellow, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University
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Clinical Affiliate, Stanford University
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Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
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PhD Candidate in Computer Science, Stanford University
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Director of Quantitative Research of the CORE-PACE Research Partnership, Stanford University
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Director of Consumer Privacy, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Pathology at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford University
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Chair, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, globalcarbonproject.org, Stanford University
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MD/PhD, Stanford University
