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Fang Liu | Credit: Harrison Truong

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, The Brinson Foundation, Simons Foundation, and independent philanthropist Kevin Wells have awarded funding to seven cross-disciplinary teams of researchers in the inaugural year…

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‘To advance science, I think it’s important to blur the boundaries between the disciplines’

Stanford chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi studies sugars on the surface of cells to better understand their…

The nanoscale optical device works at room temperature to entangle the spin of photons and electrons to achieve quantum communication. | Antony Georgiadis

Present-day quantum computers are big, expensive, and impractical, operating at temperatures near -459 degrees Fahrenheit, or “absolute zero.” In a new paper, however, materials scientists at Stanford University introduce a new nanoscale…

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The Department of Chemistry extends its sincere thanks to Dr. Sharon Brauman for her generous contribution in establishing The John I. Brauman Visiting Scholar Fund, an endowment honoring the life and legacy of a distinguished scientist, beloved…

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A study led by Stanford and Cornell researchers shows how light could be used to control the behavior of moiré materials, atomically thin layers that gain unusual properties when stacked and offset. The research has implications for developing…