Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As charismatic animals, sharks can stimulate interest in science, research and technology. Florida Museum (Kristin Grace photo) It ...

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 ...

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 federal government expends vast amounts of money on various kinds of research, which run the gamut from investigations of fundamental physical and biological processes to applied research on what ...

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 ...

The Golden Goose Awards recognize research projects that may appear obscure at first, but ultimately lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The three recipients of the Golden Goose Award for 2024 ...

The Basic, Translational and Preclinical Research Program aims to achieve scientific excellence through closely coupling aggressive and advanced basic research in disease-related problems. This unique ...

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 ...

On 13 July 2018 Physics World industry editor Margaret Harris will be moderating a panel discussion at the European Science Open Forum in Toulouse, France on “Engineering Eureka: How can industry best ...