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Aruhan Bai, Cong Wu, Kejia Yang
Basic research is believed to be a crucial factor for building national innovation capacity and therefore was perceived as a key battleground for national technological and economic competition. Since the economic reform and opening up in the late 1970s, China has made great achievements in building up its national…
Kaku, Rikuei, Bito, Mikako + 3 more
Despite broad acclaim for basic research, science is undergoing an applied shift that marginalizes basic scientists. This gap reflects an incomplete understanding of their distinctive roles, which prevents translating philosophical appreciation into effective support. We introduce a scalable metric—the application…
Jon R Lorsch, Lawrence A Tabak, Monica M Bertagnolli
Three senior figures at the US National Institutes of Health explain why the agency remains committed to supporting basic science and research.
David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman
In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfighting. We draw from a corpus of DoD grant solicitations from 2007 to 2023, focusing on those addressed to researchers in the field of…
Gabriele Angori, Chiara Marzocchi, Laura Ramaciotti, Ugo Rizzo
The dynamics of basic and applied research at university and industry have steadily changed since the Eighties, with the private sector reducing its investments in science and universities experiencing significant remodelling in the governance of their funding. While studies have focussed on documenting these changes…
Jorge Almeida
the Here and Now: A Scientific Conundrum Authors: ['Jorge Almeida'] The psychological sciences are suffering from the primacy of the “here and now” and from a radical utilitarian view of science-this is certainly true in less affluent countries around the world. Portugal is a particular case study, as both psychology…
Michael S Lauer
An analysis of over 2.2 million NIH-funded research papers published between 1990 and 2024 reveals that there have been marked declines in the relative and absolute numbers of basic-science oriented publications. In 1990, nearly 60% of NIH-funded publications reported on basic science, with that proportion declining to…
Hiranya V. Peiris
Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.
Chinwe Uzoma Chukwudi
Molecular research and researchers engage in studies that seek to understand the structures, functions, and interactions of biomolecules as the basis for cellular and systemic effects in living organisms. This research approach was made possible by considerable technological advancements that equip researchers with…
Jian Wang, Suzan Verberne
There is recurrent debate about how useful science is for technological development, but we know little about what kinds of science are more useful for technology. This paper fills this gap in the literature by exploring how the value of a patent (as measured by patent forward citations and the stock market response to…
Michael D. Schaller
Training of doctoral students as part of the next generation of the biomedical workforce is essential for sustaining the scientific enterprise in the US. Training of doctoral students primarily occurs at institutions of higher education and these trainees comprise an important part of the workforce at these…
Roberto Savona, Cristina M. Alberini, Lucia Alessi, Iacopo Baussano + 8 more
'Πέτρος Δελλαπόρτας' 'Ranieri Guerra' 'Sean Khozin' 'Andrea Modena' 'S. Pecorelli' 'Guido Rasi' 'P.D. Siviero' 'Roger M. Stein'] Where authors are identified as personnel of the International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization, the authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this…
Anna Caballe, Martino Bardelli
Grant writing, science policy and public engagement (PE) activities are forms of science communication, and all are essential for research to function and benefit our society. Scientists rely on competitive grant funding to finance their research; this is an opportunity for researchers to communicate their scientific…
James Goodrich, Ali Beladi, Konyin Joshua, Humza Bhatti
Access to practical research experience is typically limited for life science undergraduates at UK universities. This is confounded by a lack of time to pursue research given course commitments, and the competition for limited spaces on internships or other schemes. To overcome these issues, we hypothesised methods to…
Michael D. Schaller
Federal funding for research has immediate and long-term economic impact. Since federal research funding is regionally concentrated and not geographically distributed, the benefits are not fully realized in some regions of the country. The Established (previously Experimental) Program to Stimulate Competitive Research…
Xiang Zheng, Qiyao Yang, Jai Potnuri, Chaoqun Ni + 1 more
Funding agencies use a variety of mechanisms to fund research. The National Institutes of Health in the United States, for example, employs scientists to perform research at its own laboratories (intramural research), and it also awards grants to pay for research at external institutions such as universities…
David Fajardo-Ortiz, Bart Thijs, Wolfgang Glänzel, Karin R. Sipido
The historical research-funding model, based on the curiosity and academic interests of researchers, is giving way to new strategic funding models that seek to meet societal needs. We investigated the impact of this trend on health research funded by the two leading funding bodies worldwide, i.e. the National…
Rumiana Tenchov, Janet Sasso, Xinmei Wang, Qiongqiong Angela Zhou
Aging is a dynamic, time-dependent process characterized by a gradual accumulation of cell damage. Continual functional decline in the intrinsic ability of living organisms to accurately regulate homeostasis leads to increased susceptibility and vulnerability to diseases. Anti-aging research has a long history…
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In philosophy and science, a first principle is a basic proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption. Ancient Greek philosophy Aristotle defined the first principle as “the first basis from which a thing is known.” First principles thinking (or reasoning from first…
Abootaleb Sedighi, Tudor Radu, Qirat Ashraf, Balmiki Kumar + 3 more
We developed the Interdisciplinary Science Program in Research and Entrepreneurship (INSPIRE) to address the changing career landscape that students with an interest in Physical Chemistry, Biophysics and Biochemistry face. Third and fourth-year undergraduate Chemistry and Physics students participated in a 4-week…
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Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly powerful and fast-growing analytical technique across diverse disciplines, from materials science and chemistry to biology and medicine, thanks to advances in Raman instrumentation and greatly supported by the flourishing of chemometrics and artificial intelligence (AI). However…
Krittika Ralhan, Kavita Iyer, Leilani Lotti Diaz, Robert Bird + 1 more
Developing effective antibacterial solutions has become paramount in maintaining global health in this era of increasing bacterial threats and rampant antibiotic resistance. Traditional antibiotics have played a significant role in combating bacterial infections throughout history. However, the emergence of novel…