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 ...

In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nature Communications acknowledges that when assessing application-oriented manuscripts, the level of novelty will likely be below that typically observed in more fundamental work. Instead, the ...

Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, when appointed as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1993, said, “Science as a culture is fundamentally chaotic, ought to be chaotic. And, of ...

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 ...

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. America has already lost its global competitive edge in science, and funding cuts ...

The objective of basic research is to gain more comprehensive knowledge or understanding of the subject under study, without specific applications in mind. In industry, basic research is defined as ...

Are you contemplating a PhD and interested in economic or social science applications of machine learning? You might be a good fit for our pre-doc position. The Center for Applied Artificial ...