Last fall, a year after the anthrax attacks sounded a bioterrorism alarm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, promised that he would strive to ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is oftentimes made between basic and applied research. Basic research is ivory tower research, with no practical ...

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 ...

Housing a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, Shandong First Medical University (SDFMU) has quickly become a leader in disease research and treatment. With innovative approaches to skin, ...

In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

Undergraduate research in chemistry is self-directed experimentation work under the guidance and supervision of a mentor or advisor. Students participate in an ongoing research project and investigate ...

The basic researcher is driven by curiosity and a desire to explore unknown territory. Basic research includes theoretical research and early-stage investigations in the laboratory or field. A ...

Ryan Summers receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is affiliated with the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), NARST, ...

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 ...