The China Association for Science and Technology will host its annual meeting in Beijing next month, bringing together ...

With its attack on research, DOGE is failing on its own terms. Cutting basic science funding violates its mandate to make government more efficient. If they survive legal challenges, ...

“Yesterday, I learned that my office at the US Department of State – the Office of Science and Technology Cooperation – will be eliminated as part of the Department’s reorganisation ...

One challenge in the basic sciences is the concentration of grant funding at relatively few U.S. institutions, and my colleagues and I have been concerned that our traditional peer review ...

Figure claims the 02 can also self-correct and learn from its mistakes. But these examples are still far removed from the company’s goals of soon providing robots able to “tackle more complex ...

Today, basic science — the pursuit of knowledge without immediate practical application — is increasingly imperiled as policymakers challenge funding decisions and push for more narrowly ...

It’s the question many basic-science researchers dread. And it’s the question that Carly Anne York received about 10 years ago from a fellow volunteer at the Virginia Zoo.

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

Intellectual merit is about advancing science knowledge and innovation, while broader impacts describe why people who aren’t scientists should care, and how society could benefit from this research.

The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up, with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.

National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

Since its inception, Brandeis University has placed great emphasis on basic science and its relationship to medicine. With the formation of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, made ...