After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives said they wanted to safeguard and even boost funds for basic research. By William J. Broad ...

This appendix contains definitions of basic, applied, and fundamental research quoted from various sources. DOD Financial Management Regulation, DOD 7000.14-R, Vol. 2B, Ch. 5: Basic research is ...

The Center for Nano-Micro Manufacturing at UC Davis supports leading-edge scalable research and development in electronics, materials and life sciences. (Karin Higgins / UC Davis) America’s lucrative, ...

The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...

When the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard in April, you could sense the schadenfreude: “Harvard had it coming.” Well, that is until people realized what ...

Since January, the Trump administration has made deep cuts to the nation’s science funding, including more than $1 billion in grants to the National Science Foundation, which sponsors much of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

Medical research is essential for advancing the understanding of health, diseases, and treatments. There are many types of studies that serve different purposes. Medical research, or health research, ...

The scientific imperative to identify drugs that could repair mutant CFTR presented a formidable challenge. Small molecules that specifically bound and repaired a defective CFTR peptide fold were ...

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 ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...