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  1. 1 hour ago

    Using acoustics, 's Sean Wu and Utkan Demirci figured out how to shepherd heart cells into nearly any configuration they want — opening the door to better engineered cardiac tissue and more realistic disease modeling.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    True passion isn't found, it's developed through open-mindedness and willingness to put some work into new pursuits, Carol Dweck said.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    Today, the average car spends most of its time parked. Autonomous vehicles of the future could drop your kids off at school, run errands and shuttle other passengers while you work:

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  4. 6 hours ago

    The website went through an extensive redesign to make it easier for learners to find and enroll in courses.

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  5. 10 hours ago

    We're looking back at the moments, ideas and discoveries that gave shape to . Here: stopped by to check in on the vinebot, under development in Allison Okamura's lab.

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  6. 19 hours ago

    We're looking back at the moments, ideas and discoveries that shaped the university in 2018. Here: won a 24th straight Directors' Cup.

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  7. 22 hours ago

    . professor Zhenan Bao and her team developed an electronic glove to give robotic hands a measure of the manual dexterity humans take for granted.

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  8. Dec 28

    A study found that having a positive attitude toward math boosts the memory center in the brain, allowing children to perform better in the subject.

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  9. Dec 28

    Boys outperform girls in math in richer, predominantly white school districts, but the opposite is true in poorer, racially diverse districts, an analysis led by 's Sean Reardon found.

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  10. Dec 28

    Have you ever wondered why caffeine makes you energetic? Or what's going on when you experience brain freeze? provided "bite-scized" answers to common questions.

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  11. Dec 28

    Many women feel a double bind, a study found: If they work on the sidelines, they can be overshadowed & overlooked; if they “take a seat at the table” & “speak with authority,” they can be penalized for violating feminine norms.

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  12. Dec 28

    "Mankind is faced with critical decisions about ... issues [that] are fundamentally technical at their heart." - 's Carl Wieman, arguing that better education in STEM is critical to the preservation of democracy

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  13. Dec 28

    Life expectancy data from the past 50 years showed that people who survive to age 65 are continuing to live longer than their parents – a trend that doesn’t appear to be slowing down.

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  14. Dec 28

    We're looking back at the moments, ideas and discoveries that defined Stanford in 2018. Here: Students played a leading role in the first U.S. performances of Danny Elfman’s "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: Eleven Eleven."

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  15. Dec 27

    When individuals own their personal data, privacy, productivity and economic well-being are optimized, a working paper found.

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  16. Dec 27

    A husband-and-wife team co-taught a course for rising sophomores that explored the intersection of art and science.

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  17. Dec 27

    An implant the size of a baby aspirin gave paralysis patients the ability to send text messages, compose emails and browse the web, just by thinking.

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  18. Dec 27

    Researchers watched the brain conduct mental rehearsal for real-world tasks.

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  19. Dec 26

    “When you’re put in the wrong place at the wrong time, you learn amazing things about life, you experience moments of sacrifice, and you learn how to be a leader," Jeffrey Katzenberg said.

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  20. Dec 26

    Katherine Hilton found systematic gender disparities in the way we interpret interruptions.

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