The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support ...

Despite the exciting promise that emerged from these studies, the company that funded the work did not allow the researcher ...

The perinatal period and early childhood represent critical windows of development, where interventions have lifelong ...

Politicization and tenure have corrupted the institution. We need an alternative.

Ten years ago, my husband Sergio was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at age 65. He refused the only treatment offered to ...

Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” ...

For example, the Nobel prize in economic science, awarded this week, underlined the importance of funding basic research.

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 ...

But all is not well between the labs and the Army's top leadership. This spring, during a monthly teleconference that linked the directors of the service's seven laboratories, the conversation turned ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K. Samuels Presidential Chair and a distinguished professor of biochemistry ...

A study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society has recreated in the laboratory chemical reactions that may ...