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.

Since World War II, the federal funding of U.S. basic science has been responsible for about half of all economic growth in America," said Darren Lipomi.

The Golden Goose Awards recognize research projects that may appear obscure at first, but ultimately lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The three recipients of the Golden Goose Award for 2024 ...

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Honors Six Early-Career Scientists with 2026 Klerman & Freedman Prizes for Mental Health Research ...

When SARS-CoV-2 swept the world in early 2020, Stuart Schreiber banded together with a group of scientists to try to find a path out of the pandemic. They poured over papers and preprints, and ...

A collage of images including people in a lab, Chinese currency, and a person wearing full personal protective gear and holding up a test tube. China is accelerating spending in basic research to push ...

It’s still heartening to see that big companies can still invest in basic research, with much of the work done in Silicon Valley. Japanese telecommunications firm NTT announced a series of research ...

As the federal administration has moved to slash public funding for research and education at all levels, and as the government now enters into what could be a prolonged shutdown, many researchers are ...

Since the end of World War II, the business plan of American universities has included two key principles that now are undergoing rapid disruptive change: Student-athletes participate in college ...

For the past few years, I have grown a variety of peppers in my garden. I use them to make a pepper sauce. The sauce has to age for one year in the dark corner of our pantry. I don’t necessarily ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...