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 ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...

On December 2, 2015, the centennial anniversary of the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity, science fans everywhere reflected on this amazing act of genius. But the theory was not ...

The pandemic has rolled back decades of economic progress and wrought havoc on public finances. To build back better and fight climate change, sizable public investment needs to be sustainably ...

Bruce J. MacFadden has received funding from the U. S. National Science Foundation. It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants ...

The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller ...

A consensus is forming in Washington that the federal government is not doing enough to help American innovation. New research suggests that federal underinvestment is contributing to sluggish ...

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Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...