Essay triggers lively arguments over how basic science should be funded. Ridley takes aim at the popular ‘linear model’ that holds that basic science fuels new technology, which, in turn, benefits ...

From an anthropological point of view, the practice of science comes out of two possible impulses. One is a desire to understand the world and its manifestations, the other to make the world more ...

Clara Herrera, a Tetrad student in the department of Biochemistry, works in the Engel Lab at UCSF in March 2020. The Tetrad Graduate Program is supported by the Discovery Fellows program. Photo by ...