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Oprah Daily turns to SRI’s Fiona Baker to explain the sleep science behind menopause
Closing the gap in women’s health research starts with questions like these.
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Bridging the gap: What SRI’s classroom research reveals about teaching kids to read
A study finds explicit phonics instruction is in place and ready for the next step in improvement.
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What can your wearable really tell you about menopause?
The New York Times turns to SRI’s Fiona Baker for a scientist’s take.
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Can AI help us identify scientific breakthroughs?
SRI’s PARC Forum discussed AIs impact on the scientific community and how its shaping future discoveries.
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SRI completes Global Startup Campus team: Directors appointed
Cabinet Office and Japan Science and Technology Agency approve David Schwartz and Kenji Yoshihira to lead research themes under Japan’s Global Startup Campus Initiative.
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SRI appoints Robert Mandelbaum as Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives
Former Lockheed Martin ATL Managing Director and DARPA Program Manager to lead institute-wide high-growth programs.
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SRI-spinout Wingsure helps coffee farms build consistent intelligence
The new smartphone platform gives growers a single, verified record across various programs.
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Can 0.2% of your brain control how you sleep?
A rare class of neurons upends a century of thinking about how the brain produces sleep.
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SRI study finds structured linguistic phonics boosts reading for older learners
A new study from SRI Education offers rigorous evidence on phonics instruction for grades 4–8.
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SRI wins autonomous Space Domain Awareness role in U.S.–Korea collaboration
SRI was awarded a subcontract to STEP Lab Ltd. to develop an optical payload for space domain awareness.
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Reuters covers SRI’s work in the ARPA-H-funded PARADIGM program
The program aims to bring care to rural areas as hospitals close.
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Helping foster children access the support they need
SRI’s research points to practical ways to expand Head Start for children in foster care while preserving continuity.
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SRI: Cybersecurity for space
Since the dawn of the space age, SRI has played a pivotal part in space exploration and communication.
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SRI PARC Forum: Cyber resilience in space
Experts point out that old security assumptions no longer hold as satellite networks grow in quantity and complexity.
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Responsible AI: Inside SRI’s race to make generative models safe
SRI’s Artificial Intelligence Center is tackling generative AI’s biggest blind spot: trust.
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Zero-energy cooling named a WEF top 10 emerging technology
Passive radiative cooling, a technology that beams heat into space without using electricity, moves from lab to rooftop.
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Case study: Edge AI deployment gets simpler with Latent AI
2018 SRI spinout helps developers compress, secure, and deploy AI models at the edge.
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SRI scientist Thomas Kilduff and team recognized for their seminal contributions to the hypocretin/orexin system
The team was awarded the SCNi Academic Prize Medal at the University of Oxford.
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