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

BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) officially kicked off on July 13 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, gathering the ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

Daniel Jarosz, PhD, associate professor of chemical and systems biology and of developmental biology, has been appointed Stanford School of Medicine’s senior associate dean for basic science. He ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a USD 400 million annual funding opportunity for basic research. The initiative aims to advance scientific knowledge, accelerate discoveries, and lay ...

Are Americans flunking science? A new national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that the US public is unable to pass even a basic ...

As many older companies move away from fundamental research, young technology firms are picking up the slack. The sensors enable aerial drones to track endangered animals and record changes in their ...

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

The petri dishes were the bottoms of plastic water bottles, cut off and sterilized over a charcoal cookstove. Filled with agar and inoculated with bacteria from students’ fingers, the classroom ...