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

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 ...

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 ...

In this hyper-polarized political year, a consensus has quietly emerged inside the Beltway. Fears that the American “innovation engine” is stalling — potentially leaving China to gain competitive ...

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 ...

So Young Kim is director of the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and an associate professor of the Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy at KAIST in Daejon, South ...

The Division espouses a curriculum for research training based on well-defined and well-supported pathways in a variety of disciplines. Training is usually centered within an individual laboratory ...

For investigators of basic science, this trend creates a conundrum. Go where the money is, or hope that basic science retains its financial foothold. Some adroitly plant a foot in each camp — although ...