If any single recent event demonstrates the trouble British higher education is in, it must be last month's speech by science minister David Willets expounding his hopes for a university funded by the ...

Learn about research and development (R&D), including how it drives innovation, improves products, and helps keep companies ...

Watch for an overview and key findings from Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research, a five-year programme that has explored how international, national and local actors can work together to ...

A collage of images including people in a lab, Chinese currency, and a person wearing full personal protective gear and holding up a test tube. China is accelerating spending in basic research to push ...

The Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme seeks to better understand how to strengthen routine social assistance in the most difficult protracted crises – places where compounding ...

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.

Two years ago, an internal Merck survey revealed that its basic research operation was "every flavor of what you don't want." Today the company is in the midst of implementing a new strategy that ...

Cancer research often makes the biggest headlines at the point when it begins to benefit patients – through the success, for example, of molecularly targeted drugs or the new immunotherapies. The ...

(Yicai) March 31 -- China’s central government expenditure on science and technolocy is expected to break through CNY400 ...

The full spectrum of military environments experienced by today’s soldiers includes many significant contextual forces that influence perceptions and behavior—both positively and negatively. It is ...