The Future of Everything

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

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A marine scientist travels the world to understand whether and how the ocean will respond to climate

A civil engineer explains how new insights gleaned from the flight of birds may one day be applied t

How a revealing father-daughter conversation led to a career dedicated to studying and treating seve

A rapidly shifting legal debate is raging in healthcare over patient data and privacy. One legal exp

An expert in infectious diseases says that vaccinations are more powerful than ever, but better comm

The geostationary satellites used for communication and weather forecasting today are very large and

Photonics engineers are working toward a day when fast, energy efficient computers do their mathemat

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Computer programs that purport to help humans learn have been around almost as long as there have be

A biomechanical engineer explains how new diagnostics and improved understanding of human movement a

Russ Altman: Today on The Future of Everything, the future of detecting DNA in your blood.Now DNA is

They make a remarkable array of chemicals to survive the world around them. One engineer is using th

In breast cancer pathology, a 2 percent chance of malignancy is the accepted threshold at which a ra

In cancer detection, could a blood test replace a biopsy? Once, when a cancer was suspected, the ne

Women face many roadblocks to careers in data science and other STEM disciplines. One Stanford profe

How do new technologies and techniques for altering DNA get used? And who gets to use them? In rec

An expert on air quality talks about the hidden dangers inside our homes and offers some helpful tip

A mechanical engineer explains how more and better data is helping to create new prosthetics unlike

Russ Altman: Today, on The Future of Everything, the future of the microbiome. Now, the microbiome h

Once the core American curriculum meant reading, writing and arithmetic, but Stanford professor Mehr