China increased research and development spending by 8.2% in 2025, pushing total investment above ...

The 2026 Golden Goose Awards, an honor spotlighting obscure, often trivial sounding basic research that ultimately yields significant social benefits have been announced.

STRASBOURG, France, 10 December 2024 – The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), global leader in pioneering frontier life science research has released its annual Science Digest. The 60-page volume ...

In recent debates about government funding, certain quirky-sounding research projects — like studying shrimp on treadmills — have grabbed headlines and become easy targets for criticism. Politicians ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

The government is reviving the "Basic Research" program, a personal basic research support initiative abolished in 2024, after two years. It has also newly established the "Challenge-type Research" ...

This project derives extensive input from the campus community. Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver’s Science Space Planning Committee conducted a survey of constituency ...

What’s the purpose of your study? 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 ...

The still relatively rookie Polish government, which took office only in mid-December 2023, is continuing the push to reverse the policies of its predecessors in higher education and science. In a ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation are investing $16 million across 10 projects that will conduct basic science with direct conservation applications to ...

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the 19th century, for example, Charles Darwin made an expensive voyage to the southernmost tip of the Americas, visiting ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed ...