The Future of Everything

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

Episodes

Total: 322

Readers of Eric Appel’s academic profile will note appointments in materials science, bioengineering

As the world has learned through the recent pandemic, epidemiological studies can be complicated by

For decades, the general-purpose central processing unit—the CPU—has been the workhorse of the compu

Most people know the seismograph, those ultrasensitive instruments that record every small shift in

Anyone who’s ever made weekend plans based on the weather forecast knows that prediction – about any

Electronics are everywhere these days, so much so that often we don't even register that we are usin

It now seems more certain than ever that the world will make the all-important transition to electri

Engineer Irene Lo studies markets, but not traditional marketplaces based in cash.Instead, she studi

Oft-heralded 3-dimensional printers can build objects ranging from simple spoons to advanced running

Tina Hernandez-Boussard is an expert in biomedical informatics who says a new era of understanding t

Nate Persily is a professor at Stanford Law School and an expert in election law.He sees the most re

Whether by injury or disease, paralysis has afflicted humans through the ages.Only now have science

Sam Wineburg, a research psychologist at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education, recently conducted

Many have now become familiar with the term herd immunity, an idea few outside the infectious diseas

Imagine typing words into a text editor and watching on a nearby television as a well-known celebrit

Biology is not typically considered a mathematically intensive science, says Noah Rosenberg, an expe

Slowly but surely, the highly centralized, industrial electric grid that supplies power to the vast

The world’s once linear — take it, treat it, use it, dispose it — model of freshwater usage is chang

Humankind has long harnessed the wind to its advantage. From ancient mariners to millers grinding gr

As the world moves to more efficient and cleaner energy solutions, there is a growing divide between