The 2026 Golden Goose Awards, an honor spotlighting obscure, often trivial sounding basic research that ultimately yields ...

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 ...

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 ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

"We show what happens in a tiny molecular system where there is no place for the protons to hide," said Johnson, the Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

The ESC Fund Basic Science Course has been created to encourage the discovery of science and support the next generation of cardiovascular researchers. As the first programme backed by ESC Fund, this ...