The Future of Everything

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

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It’s nothing we haven’t already heard – the news you read is being shaped by the ubiquitous presence

The next job search you conduct will likely be shaped by artificial intelligence. In the age of Link

Earthquakes come in species, says Greg Beroza, professor of geophysics at Stanford and an expert in

Like clockwork, every time a large natural disaster hits and wipes out billions in built infrastruct

While Alzheimer’s disease has cut short too many lives and devastated more families than can be coun

While climate change is likely to bring rising sea levels, more frequent and stronger storms, as wel

Riana Pfefferkorn is a digital security expert and Cryptography Fellow at the Stanford Center for In

Professor David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, says that artificial

While well-known mapping apps have transformed the daily commute through better information, Stanfor

While cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum gather the lion’s share of headlines, few know that thes

Am I saving enough for retirement? Will I outlive my money? Can I count on Social Security? These ar

Sarah Billington began her career in civil engineering studying concrete, a remarkable material that

Over the last three-quarters of a century, global corporations have lost sight of their broader role

Populism can be a powerful force in a democratic society. But according to Anna Grzymala-Busse, a St

Beginning in the 1980s, medical doctors started treating pain with increasing amounts of opioid medi

From Bitcoin theft to the embarrassing revelations in the Sony Pictures hacking to the recent assaul

When Stanford’s Martha Crenshaw, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Stu

Can an expectant mother’s exposure to air pollutants or even extreme temperatures impact her unborn

It may not be widely known, but before he launched Apple, Steve Jobs lived for a year on a commune.

From Oculus Rift to Samsung VR, the era of virtual reality is right around the corner, if not alread