In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

What Andy Kessler’s BRE proposal misses.

Easton R. White is an assistant professor of biology at the University of New Hampshire who studies biodiversity and ...

Every year, the University of Kansas Cancer Center must file a report with the National Cancer Institute in order to get its ...

The institutions aren’t detached from reality.

The AHA grants this designation to scientists who advance research in cardiovascular, stroke, and brain health.

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the 19th century, for example, Charles Darwin made an expensive voyage to the southernmost tip of the Americas, visiting ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. For most people, medicines are a bottle of pills on a shelf — made by ...

In the long-established American ecosystem of scientific advancement, fundamental research—not geared toward immediate application—has mostly been conducted at universities with federal funding. The ...

On the morning of the 23rd (local time), at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Silicon Valley, researchers from Google Research introduced the company’s latest research achievements to students ...

Since January, the Trump administration has made deep cuts to the nation’s science funding, including more than $1 billion in grants to the National Science Foundation, which sponsors much of the ...