Natural Sciences
A ‘magic’ angle between layers in a stacked nanoscale system offers intriguing material properties
A new study describes a platform that can be fine-tuned to investigate the electronic properties of matter at small scales by shifting individual layers to generate novel lattice patterns.
Stanford Statisticians Tackle COVID-19
This stories series presents three studies in the Department of Statistics addressing the coronavirus outbreak using different approaches: tracking genetic mutations in the coronavirus, developing a more practical approach to predictive modelling, and designing clinical trials of promising new treatments.
Is our universe one of many?
This five-part series tells the story of how theoretical physicists at Stanford helped develop the String Theory Landscape – and in the process sparked a fierce and still ongoing debate about what science is and what it should be.