Nature

Basic research is often best appreciated in retrospect

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 ...
The Conversation

Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society

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 Conversation

Tenacious curiosity in the lab can lead to a Nobel Prize – mRNA research exemplifies the unpredictable value of basic scientific research

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research

This appendix contains definitions of basic, applied, and fundamental research quoted from various sources. DOD Financial Management Regulation, DOD 7000.14-R, Vol. 2B, Ch. 5: Basic research is ...