Na Young Kim at optical bench / L.A. Cicero
Stanford physicists develop revolutionary low-power polariton laser
Thomas Sumner
Stanford physicists have created a new method of producing coherent matter beams. The new low-power laser system could one day be used in everything from consumer goods to quantum computers.
Vikram Seth portrait and illustration of the Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate returns to Stanford May 30
Cynthia Haven
Stanford celebrates a remarkable collaboration: Vikram Seth's sonnets become sound in Conrad Cummings' opera, which has been called one of the best of the new century. Seth's novel-in-verse was born at Stanford in the 1980s.
Artist's composite of the Kepler spacecraft. /Illustration: NASA
Stanford professor and former NASA official on Kepler space telescope
Bjorn Carey
Consulting Professor Scott Hubbard helped guide the Kepler mission when he served as director of NASA Ames Research Center. He explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
African clawed frog / Photo: Brian Gatwicke
Frogs in California harbor deadly amphibian pathogen, Stanford study finds
Ruthann Richter
The African clawed frog, which were brought to the U.S. a century ago, harbor a fungal infection that is decimating amphibian populations worldwide, according to a School of Medicine study of these frogs in California.