The solutions to feeding the world are certainly multi-faceted, requiring knowledge from a diversity of fields and practices to successfully raise food production and maintain ecosystem security. Thus ...

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 ...

When President Obama said in his Inaugural Address, “We will restore science to its rightful place,” the scientific community breathed a deep sigh of relief, shed tears of joy, and gave itself a ...

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 ...

Applied Biomedical Sciences combines basic sciences (like biology and chemistry) with more advanced applied sciences with a clinical focus. Through hands-on laboratory experiences and research ...

Middle Tennessee State University announced a new quantum center in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences Oct. 31.

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 ...

On December 2, 2015, the centennial anniversary of the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity, science fans everywhere reflected on this amazing act of genius. But the theory was not ...