I could tell you lots of stories about scientific research that seems to have no payoff. PALCA: So he and a colleague decided to make a more systematic study of how connected basic research was to ...

Basic research is where it all starts: new ideas, fundamental theories, unanswered questions, and investigation into things that don’t quite make sense. It requires the ability to identify interesting ...

A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists. This component, referred to as “broader impacts” by the National Science ...

including a short description with references on how the proposed work addresses frontier-level research in basic plasma science and engineering, and a brief description of the proposed team, ...

Basic research accounted for 6.5 per cent of China’s overall R&D expenditure last year, as the country moved closer to its goal of 8 per cent by 2025. In all, the country spent 182 billion yuan ...