A high caliber research university like Stanford makes millions of dollars in royalties each year—all coming from companies and technologies developed there. You
Science, Technology and Society
DNA Synthesis Going Viral: Evaluating the Security of Dual-Use Biotechnology
In 2004, the United States passed legislation that made hundreds of researchers around the country guilty of a crime with consequences of up to $2,000,000
Health and Medicine
A Lurking Threat: Modern Tuberculosis in the SF Bay Area
When the world’s spotlight is on Silicon Valley, visions of a tech-laced utopia arise. Self-driving cars are being tested, university researchers are developing hand-held medicine
Environment
Skeletons Beneath the Waves
By Eric Cramer Briny water spills into the tide pools beneath the pier at Cannery Row, filling the crevices in the rocks. Thirty feet below the
Research
Alternative Science? The future of science research in Trump’s America
By: Lloyd Lyall Trump’s attitudes on medicine and the environment might be some of the most striking disavowals of science in the modern world. The
The Other Antibiotic: Viruses
Whether the name is spread by the 5 o’clock evening news, the National Institutes of Health website, or a box that you may have to
Miscellaneous
The World in Your Belly Button
In Dr. Seuss’s literary classic, “Horton Hears a Who,” an elephant discovers an entire society of tiny people living on a small flower. In the
Defying Gravity: DIY Physics Experiment
Staring at a list of physics equations can be daunting. These mathematical expressions, though, are meant to model the world that we see around us.
