In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

SHANGHAI -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, attended a symposium on advancing ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 178 applied, health, natural and social sciences journals, across many different publishers, chosen by an independent group of researchers. The ...

Basic research has been the foundation of all the technological advancements we enjoy today. Everything from the Internet to mRNA vaccines are the result of what scientists did in a lab—long before it ...

As 2026 marks the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-30), topics such as new quality productive forces, basic research and breakthroughs in key core technologies have become major ...

President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, addresses a symposium on strengthening basic ...

China’s state asset regulator has ordered its central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to double their basic research spending by 2030, seeking to incentivise some of the country’s largest companies ...

This appendix contains definitions of basic, applied, and fundamental research quoted from various sources. DOD Financial Management Regulation, DOD 7000.14-R, Vol. 2B, Ch. 5: Basic research is ...

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the 19th century, for example, Charles Darwin made an expensive voyage to the southernmost tip of the Americas, visiting ...

Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. Columbia University announced Thursday that its medical school has received $400 million to fund a new institute for basic biomedical research to fuel ...

In 2007, researchers at UC San Diego watched breast cancer cells migrate in real time. In 2009, scientists at UC Davis and Mount Sinai School of Medicine captured video of HIV spreading between immune ...