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 ...

Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new Pontifical Academy of Sciences document ...

Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society Published: May 8, 2025 8:40am EDT. Bruce J. MacFadden, University of Florida. Author.

Heretical as it may sound, “basic science” isn’t nearly as productive of new inventions as we tend to think. Suppose Thomas Edison had died of an electric shock before thinking up the light ...

By Prof.Kirthi Tennakone Today marks World Science Day for Peace and Development, proclaimed by the United Nations and celebrated worldwide every 10th of November since 2001. The theme this year ...

While the National Institutes of Health funds basic science in the U.S., universities and scientists, including those in PhD programs, must compete for increasingly scarce opportunities.

Founded in November 2011 by the South Korean government, the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) supports basic research within the entire range of natural sciences including physics, life science ...

A boy tastes the air during a science study tour in Qingdao, Shandong province, on July 25, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] Nearly half of Chinese citizens exhibit basic scientific literacy, providing a ...

The International Congress of Basic Science concluded successfully at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications in Huairou Science City, Beijing, on Friday. [Photo provided ...

The basic phenomenon of "spectral lines" (as these discrete wavelengths are called, because in a traditional spectrometer light passes through a narrow slit before being dispersed by a prism or ...