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Today’s drain is tomorrow’s mine. How to tap the treasure in wastewater.
Six alums tell us why they stopped out and what they gained in return.
by Tracie White
A revolutionary Chinese typewriter was long thought lost. Then it turned up in a Long Island storage unit.
by Sam Scott
Can Stanford Football recapture its glory days? Andrew Luck has thoughts.
by Ivan Maisel
How neurologist Helen Brontë-Stewart is personalizing Parkinson’s treatment.
by Tracie White
When Herbert Hoover and Ray Lyman Wilbur went to Washington, they left their friend Robert Swain in charge of the university. But they never quite relinquished control.
by Rich Jaroslovsky
Andy Dunn feared the specter of his bipolar disorder. But one day, he had no choice but to confront it.
by Tracie White
Mosquito larvae, says Erin Mordecai, are cute. But they grow into humankind’s deadliest foes—which is why she and her colleagues are trying to figure out where on Earth the little buggers are about to strike.
by Rebecca Beyer
They hit, they ran, they fenced. Now, these eight former student-athletes lead the teams on which they once competed.
by Kelli Anderson