The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, celebrated in 2022, recognizes that basic sciences are vital to attain sustainable development and to improve the quality of life ...

The route from scientific discovery to useful invention is often long, tortuous and extends over a horizon concealing a destination that can’t be seen — or sometimes even imagined. Two new books on ...

Organization: The Science Philanthropy Alliance, which commissioned the Voluntary Support of Education to add a questionnaire to its annual survey in 2015. Summary: A survey of U.S. higher-education ...

Leading scientists and policy experts in China have called for greater support for basic research, saying it is a key to cultural confidence. At a TED-like event in Beijing on Saturday, astrophysicist ...

For investigators of basic science, this trend creates a conundrum. Go where the money is, or hope that basic science retains its financial foothold. Some adroitly plant a foot in each camp — although ...

Clara Herrera, a Tetrad student in the department of Biochemistry, works in the Engel Lab at UCSF in March 2020. The Tetrad Graduate Program is supported by the Discovery Fellows program. Photo by ...

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...

The vast majority of experimental work in behavioral and biomedical science involves group comparison—in the simplest case, an experimental and a control group. Average data are compared and the ...

Dr. Timothy Palzkill is a professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. He also serves as the academic chair for the Cullen Trust for Higher Education. Palzkill ...