It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

Overall, a solid majority of adults in the U.S. say government investment in both basic science research and in engineering and technology “pay off in the long run” (71% and 72%, respectively). A ...

Biologist Benjamin Jin conducts immunotherapy research for fighting HPV+ cancers in a lab at the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, on Feb. 7, as part of ...

Matt Valle, left, of the C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, plants seeds with greenhouse manager Eric Haddix in a UC Davis greenhouse. (UC Davis photo) While we’re enjoying the last days of ...

Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...

The belief that basic or pure research lays the foundation for applied research was fixed in science policy circles by Vannevar Bush's 1945 report on Science: The Endless Frontier. Unfortunately, his ...

A new report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology lists four landmark scientific achievements of the last year: the first spacecraft landing on a comet; the discovery of a new fundamental ...

The Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (SESM) research area teaches and perform research on mechanics of solids, mechanics of structures, and structural engineering. Our research spans ...

Students at Saint Louis University School for Science and Engineering have the opportunity to apply their education in a global context. Our research areas cross traditional disciplines, allowing ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Columbia University announced Thursday that its medical school has received $400 million to fund a new institute for basic biomedical research to fuel ...