Posts Tagged ‘stanford’

Fishing for Electrons

Monday, September 30th, 2013
microbes, sewage, waste, water, stanford, electrons, bio-inspiration, bio, generators, power, energy

A novel way to generate electricity from sewage.

Shark Oil Storage

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
sharks, shark week, great white, migration, buoyancy, drift, dive, monterey bay aquarium, stanford

It’s Shark Week! Great whites are revealing their secret to long distance migrations…

iGEM Competition

Friday, January 11th, 2013
iGEM, Stanford, Brown, Lynn Rothschild, academy fellow, undergraduates, synthetic biology, astrobiology, mining, venus, bacteria

A group of undergraduates from Stanford and Brown compete in a genetic engineering competition using synthetic biology techniques to answer astrobiology questions.

Phytoplankton Under Ice

Friday, June 8th, 2012
Screen shot 2012-06-08 at 12.26.36 PM

Researchers were stunned to find a phytoplankton bloom beneath Arctic Sea Ice.

Out of (Southern) Africa?

Monday, March 21st, 2011
africa_pair_news

Genetic analysis of African hunter-gatherers yields new clues to the geographic origin of our species.

Arctic Grades

Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Above the Clouds

NOAA has issued this year’s Arctic Report Card. If you were its parent, what would you do?

The Times they are a-Changin

Monday, November 1st, 2010
Kwarastatedrummers

The evolution of our species’ most famous traits took hundreds of thousands of years. But in some cases, evolution doesn’t always take its sweet time.

Gecko-inspired Stickybot

Monday, August 30th, 2010
Gecko_foot_on_glass

What do you get when you combine gecko toes and scientists’ imagination?

Atoll Tale

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
800px-Atafutrim

Remote atolls are teaching scientists a lot about healthy coral reef ecosystems and their future.

Launching ICESCAPE

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Healy_in_Ice

NASA will soon launch the ICESCAPE mission on a high-tech Coast Guard cutter to study the changing Arctic.

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