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Stanford graduate students Drew Hall, left, and Richard Gaster won two awards for their NanoLab diagnostic tool. An award-winning invention by Stanford doctoral students Richard Gaster and Drew Hall may change who diagnoses diseases ranging from flu to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The invention, called the NanoLab, is a miniature, portable bioassay that can identify [...]
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane — no, it’s a plane the size of a bird. Better yet, it’s a three-ounce, unmanned air vehicle developed by Brigham Young University and the Air Force that lets soldiers, firefighters or TV reporters get a bird’s-eye view on just about any situation, thanks [...]
I was born the year of Sputnik, and my earliest memories of society swirl around silver suited astronauts and the promise of a bright future of gleaming spaceships and planetary homesteading. When I was 11, some 40 years ago this month, America’s Apollo program achieved something so much larger than life—President Kennedy’s goal of “landing [...]