The Future of Everything

Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide t

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Electrical engineer Kunle Olukotun has built a career out of building computer chips for the world.

Julie Owono is a lawyer, executive director of Internet Sans Frontières and a fellow at the Stanford

Words are a window into human psychology, society, and culture, says Stanford linguist and computer

When Riitta Katila looks at old photos or movies about the space program of the 1960s, she sees one

As the silicon chip embarks upon its second half-century of dominance in computing and communication

In recent decades, medical and biological science have advanced by leaps and bounds using technologi

Stanford’s Mark Schnitzer says several of the more exciting recent advances in his field of applied

The old maxim holds that a lie spreads much faster than a truth, but it has taken the global reach a

Stanford’s Karen Liu is a computer scientist who works in robotics. She hopes that someday machines

It has been said that batteries hold the key to a sustainable future.But so-called “clean energy” do

Evan Reed and a team of scientists recently identified a promising solid material that could replace

Renée DiResta is research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a multi-disciplinary center

Once the bathwater is drained, the toilet flushed or the laundry done, few give a passing thought to

Bioengineer Kwabena Boahen builds highly efficient “neuromorphic” supercomputers modeled on the huma

In a world where a drug takes years and billions of dollars to develop, just one in 20 candidates ma

When Stanford bioengineer Markus Covert first decided to create a computer model able to simulate th

COVID-19 is changing how many scientists, like Stanford sleep expert Rafael Pelayo, MD, view their f

Marietje Schaake was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019 and now serves as the int

Andrew Huberman is a Stanford neurobiologist and ophthalmologist keenly interested in the biology of

Manu Prakash was in France when COVID-19 took hold throughout the world. There, the Stanford bioengi