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 ...

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 ...

For nearly three decades, virologist Shan-Lu Liu has studied one of biology’s most fundamental questions: What happens when a virus attacks a cell? His research explores how viruses enter cells, how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Division espouses a curriculum for research training based on well-defined and well-supported pathways in a variety of disciplines. Training is usually centered within an individual laboratory ...