ARCS News

Paul Summers, who received the ARCS: Achievement Rewards for College Scientists award, is the winner of this year's Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability photo contest.

Subject of the article, Daniel Swain, was a 2015 ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) fellow.

The largest animals ever known to have lived on Earth ingest the tiniest specks of plastic in colossal amounts, Stanford University scientists have found.

From 1910 to 1970, humans killed an estimated 1.5 million baleen whales in the frigid water encircling Antarctica.

Plants play an essential role in curbing climate change, absorbing about one-third of the carbon dioxide emitted from human activities and storing it in soil so

Ultrathin, flexible computer circuits have been an engineering goal for years, but technical hurdles have prevented the degree of miniaturization necessary to ac

A fossil study from Stanford University suggests the diversity of life in the world’s oceans declined time and again over the past 145 million years during periods

Dwindling water supplies and a growing population will halve per capita water use in Jordan by the end of this century.

Ethereal, swaying pillars of brown kelp along California’s coasts grow up through the water column, culminating in a dense surface canopy of thick fronds that pr

The challenges facing humanity today – rising demands for energy, water, food, and livable land in the wake of a steadily growing global population – are critical.

For over a century, scientists have studied E. coli, one of the bacteria that cause food poisoning, as a model for fighting infections.