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A beaver chews on vegetation in a beaver pond
August 18, 2022 | Stanford Water in the West Program
Stanford's Felicia Marcus discusses how states can utilize nature-based solutions to help meet climate targets and water objectives while enjoying... Read More
A turtle lays on the beach
August 15, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Key marine species can serve as bioindicators to measure how much plastic exists in different ocean regions.
Students from a developmental biology course at Hopkins, where they learned about developmental biodiversity. Lowe encourages other classes to incorporate an experiential Hopkins component to their curriculum. (Image credit: Christopher Lowe)
August 15, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Improved facilities and equipment at the Monterey Bay station will open the door for researchers to study more of the Pacific’s diverse species, gain... Read More
The activity of synthetic genetic circuits that process the presence or absence of specific signals in plant leaves was measured in high throughput by placing leaf punches in 96-well plates. (Image credit: Jennifer Brophy)
August 11, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Using synthetic genes, researchers at Stanford have been able to modify the root structures of plants. Their work could make crops more efficient at... Read More
August 5, 2022 | Stanford News Service
The effort expands on a previous initiative in Northern California that provided the only reported detections of monkeypox genetic material in sewage...
August 4, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford marine biologists, epidemiologists, geneticists, engineers, and others soon will collaborate to develop new water purification technology,... Read More
August 2, 2022 | Stanford News Service
A tiny new device allows scientists to directly observe and quantify how rocks change in the presence of acids, enabling more accurate assessments of... Read More
Farmworkers harvest strawberries in Salinas, California.
August 2, 2022 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
With extreme weather events on the rise around the globe, heat waves are impacting people, economies, and infrastructure. A July 28 webinar hosted by... Read More
water drops
August 1, 2022 | Stanford News Service
A Stanford researcher and colleagues have shown that electric charge transfer when water droplets contact solid materials can spontaneously produce... Read More

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