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The Future of Everything
Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide to the latest science and engineering breakthroughs. Join Russ and his guests as they explore cutting-edge advances that are shaping the future of everything from AI to health and renewable energy. Al...
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The future of ultrafast materials and devices
Engineer Aaron Lindenberg is an expert in the ways atoms and electrons move through materials. He uses X-ray “flash photography” to make movies of ato...
Best of: The future of computer-aided education
Commencement season is here and, as many students are closing one chapter and stepping into the next, it's a nice moment to ask: what did learning rea...
The future of farming
Food security expert David Lobell is immersed in the data of agriculture. He uses satellite imagery, yield data, and advanced computational modeling t...
The future of fungi
Fungi are “nature’s biological recycling machines,” says guest Vayu Hill-Maini, a former chef turned bioengineer. That is, they take waste and turn it...
The future of influencers
In the dotcom era, communication professor Angèle Christin embedded herself in newsrooms, where she witnessed how audience metrics tilted journalism t...
Best of: The future of the universe
Earlier this year, we got to witness the incredible launch and return of Artemis II, a NASA mission meant to lay the groundwork for a future lunar lan...
The future of cell-free biotechnology
Michael Jewett is a pioneer of cell-free biotechnology. Instead of using living microbes as factories, he uses their internal molecular machinery to m...
The future of education
Education researcher Susanna Loeb studies the broad spectrum of learning experience, including ways to recruit and retain expert teachers, how to opti...
The future of networking technology
Computer scientist Keith Winstein is an expert in how computers communicate. Computer networks create what he calls shared fictions – abstract realiti...
Best of: The future of plant chemistry
April is Earth Month, and in appreciation of the plant life all around us, we’re re-running a conversation we had with Beth Sattely last year on the f...
The future of learning
Candace Thille is an authority in learning science, educational technology, and AI-enabled learning environments. She is closing the two-way gap betwe...
The future of fashion and dress codes
Legal expert Richard Ford studies the intersection of dress codes and the law. Clothing and hairstyles communicate power, identity, and social status,...
The future of vaccines
Epidemiologist Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado is an expert in vaccine research and public health. Look back centuries, and the story is always the same, sh...
Best of: The future of sleep
For many of us, this coming weekend marks the start of Daylight Saving Time, when we “spring forward” and move our clocks ahead by an hour. While the...
The future of coronary heart disease
Heart disease should be treated just like cancer, says guest Mike McConnell, an author and expert in preventive cardiology at Stanford: Detect and sta...
The future of eating disorders
Psychiatrist Jennifer Derenne specializes in eating disorders. Most eating disorders begin in adolescence, but they can appear much earlier – or later...
Best of: The future of allergies
Spring is right around the corner and as the weather changes and things begin to bloom, that also means the onset of allergy season. Last fall, we sat...
The future of entrepreneurship
Chuck Eesley, a professor of management science and engineering, studies entrepreneurship across diverse contexts – from refugee entrepreneurs in Ugan...
The future of substance abuse in youth
Developmental psychologist Bonnie Halpern-Felsher specializes in teenage health-related decision-making, especially in their use of tobacco, alcohol,...
Best of: The future of depression care
As 2026 gets underway we know that many take time around this new beginning to improve not only their physical, but also their mental health. With tha...
The future of ADHD
Pediatrician Yair Bannett studies and treats ADHD in preschool-age children. His interests stem from watching too many families struggle to understand...
The future of alcohol
Physician-scientist Randall Stafford studies the effects of alcohol use on population health – the true health impact, he emphasizes. Stafford explain...
Best of: The future of motivation
We're here to wish you a very happy New Year! We hope you’re ringing in the new year in good health and looking forward to what’s ahead in 2026. As pe...
Happy New Year From The Future of Everything
Hi everyone, it’s your host, Russ. As we celebrate another holiday season and round out the year, I want to take a moment to say thank you for listeni...
Best of: The future of AI coaching
We hope you’re enjoying the holiday season with family, friends, and loved ones. We’ll be releasing new episodes again in the new year – in the meanti...
The future of lipids in evolution
Microbes are awesome, says biologist Paula Welander. They have shaped Earth’s chemistry and its environment over billions of years, including oxygenat...
The future of neurodegeneration
Molecular biologist Judith Frydman studies the nuances of protein folding and how defects in the process lead to neurodegenerative diseases. Her team...
The future of ribosomes
Maria Barna is an authority on ribosomes – “life’s most ancient and spectacular molecular machines.” Ribosomes make proteins in the body. There can be...
Best of: How to take waste out of wastewater
In October, chemical engineer Will Tarpeh was awarded a 2025 MacArthur “Genius Grant” in recognition of his pioneering work to turn wastewater into a...
The future of digital markets
Gabriel Weintraub studies how digital markets evolve. In that regard, he says platforms like Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb have already disrupted multiple...
The future of immunotherapy
Biochemist Lingyin Li survived breast cancer at just 30 and now works to harness the human immune system to fight cancers that have long evaded treatm...
The future of emerging technologies
On our 300th episode, Stanford Hoover Institution Director and former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talks about her return to Stanford afte...
The countdown to our 300th episode
Tune in on Friday, November 7th to listen to our 300th episode with a very special guest.
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Best of: The future of transparent tissue
About a year ago, a research team at Stanford Engineering led by Guosong Hong published a paper about their work to use a common food dye to make mous...
The future of wound healing
Clinician-scientist Jill Helms is an expert on healing. Until about age 30, people heal easily, she says, but later on, not so well. Regenerative medi...
The future of topical vaccines
Bioengineer Michael Fischbach studies alternative vaccine delivery methods, like self-administered creams with no needles, health professionals, or si...
Best of: The future of extreme climate events
As fall arrives, many regions experience dramatic weather shifts—think early frosts, storms, or unusual temperature swings. Last year, we sat down wit...
The future of the built environment
Rishee Jain is an engineer and an expert in the built environment – the manmade structures of modern life. The future, Jain says, will be a place wher...
The future of the innovation economy
In a special Future of Everything podcast episode recorded live before a studio audience in New York, host Russ Altman talks to three authorities on t...
Best of: The future of ultrafast electronics
About a year ago we released an episode on the future of ultrafast electronics and it quickly became one of our most popular episodes on YouTube. We’r...