At the latest webinar hosted by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, political and energy experts from Stanford, the U.S. government, and the private sector discussed the challenges, opportunities, and strategies to equitably accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels. Many projects that would advance solar farms, new transmission lines and other essential infrastructure are stuck in queues waiting for permits.
A team of researchers found that by substituting cheaper silver for some of the platinum group metals used in previous catalysts, they could make an equally effective fuel cell with a much lower price tag
Stanford Law School's Robert Rabin, the A. Calder Mackay professor of law discusses the eventual tilt toward more product liability claims and fewer negligence claims, the new liability framework he proposed in 2018 and well as other tort law issues around fully autonomous vehicles.
Researchers at Stanford, SLAC, MIT and Toyota Research Institute have used computer vision to extract pixel-by-pixel information from nanoscale X-rays of electrode particles absorbing and releasing lithium ions that couldn't be seen before.
experts: Arun Majumdar, dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Yi Cui, professor of materials science and engineering and director of Precourt Institute, Jason Glickman, executive vice president, PG&E, and Amy Guy Wagner, energy consultant on some of the main challenges in reaching California's goal of a fully carbon-neutral economy by 2045
This brief from the Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) introduces a quantitative framework that allows policymakers to evaluate the behavior of language models to assess what kinds of opinions they reflect. See the key takeaways in the brief.
The Stanford-based Natural Capital Project collaborated with Morgan Stanley's Institute for Sustainable Investing to develop a new, open-source ecosystem services footprinting tool to assess nature-related impacts and dependencies (i.e., the ways a business's operations may depend on nature's services)
The CREATE AI Act (Creating Resources for Every American to Experiment with Artificial Intelligence Act) was introduced by both sides of the U.S. Congress last month. The bill would establish a national AI research resource to provide access to much-needed compute and datasets for academics, nonprofit researchers, and startups.
A new Stanford study finds low-income communities in California have a disproportionate share of fire-prone overhead lines and proposes a way to equitably allocate the cost of moving more lines underground.
Stanford scientists have invented a new kind of paint that can reduce the need for both heating and air conditioning in buildings and other spaces, such as trains and trucks for refrigerated cargo.
