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 ...

Founded in November 2011 by the South Korean government, the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) supports basic research within the entire range of natural sciences including physics, life science, ...

As many older companies move away from fundamental research, young technology firms are picking up the slack. The sensors enable aerial drones to track endangered animals and record changes in their ...

BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) officially kicked off on July 13 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, gathering the ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

The petri dishes were the bottoms of plastic water bottles, cut off and sterilized over a charcoal cookstove. Filled with agar and inoculated with bacteria from students’ fingers, the classroom ...

Daniel Jarosz, PhD, associate professor of chemical and systems biology and of developmental biology, has been appointed Stanford School of Medicine’s senior associate dean for basic science. He ...

Are Americans flunking science? A new national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that the US public is unable to pass even a basic ...

A groundbreaking new report provides valuable guidance in a field that turns out to have been substantially overlooked – communicating fundamental research. The SciPEP journey began in 2019 at a ...