Last fall, a year after the anthrax attacks sounded a bioterrorism alarm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, promised that he would strive to ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is oftentimes made between basic and applied research. Basic research is ivory tower research, with no practical ...

The debate over the relative value of basic versus applied research has played out in the pages of C&EN for decades. The lead paragraph of a “Research” department story in the Nov. 11, 1957, issue of ...

This article describes the place of the basic/applied science distinction in negotiations over the limits of secrecy between the U.S. “scientific” community and the American government. It combines an ...

While translational research can happen at any stage of the research process, a recent investigation of behavioral and social science research awards granted by the NIH between 2008 and 2014 revealed ...

"There is no more efficient investment of taxpayer resources than basic science and research and technology. These are the discoveries that drive not only the expansion of our economy, but the ...

Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...

Basic research, often termed fundamental, frontier, blue-sky, curiosity-driven—or even useless—is the pursuit of knowledge ...