Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The number of basic science papers published by recipients of ...

Fifty-six years ago today, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into low-earth orbit, making it the first man-made Earth satellite. America, meanwhile, was launched into a state of ...

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 ...

Our Faculty is committed to sustained basic research. Without it, we cannot deliver scientific breakthroughs or innovations. Basic research provides the foundation for all scholarly research. It ...

How can we measure the worth of scientific knowledge? Economic analysts give it a shot. Before building any large piece of infrastructure, potential investors or representatives from funding agencies ...

In the first half of 2026, 4,628 individual basic research projects were selected. The total number of projects increased by about 25% compared to last year, with support for early-career researchers ...