About eight-in-ten Americans (83%) identify ultraviolet as the type of radiation that sunscreen protects against. Nearly as many (77%) know that the main concern about the overuse of antibiotics is ...

MIT President L. Rafael Reif’s call for more attention to our eroding research infrastructure is welcome (“The Dividends of Funding Basic Science,” op-ed, Dec. 6), but he talks about basic and applied ...

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Though many Americans are lacking in their own knowledge of basic science, a majority have a high opinion of scientists and are eager to hear about new discoveries, according to a new report. More ...

The U.S. must increase its support of basic scientific research if it does not want to fall behind Soviet Russia in both pure science and the practical technology that is based upon it. This is the ...

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, more commonly known as the Royal Society, has stressed the importance of basic science, saying that ...

The general public are worryingly ignorant about the symptoms and risk factors that contribute to serious medical conditions such as stroke and HIV/AIDS, according to a new study. Surprisingly, those ...

Bruce J. MacFadden has received funding from the U. S. National Science Foundation. It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants ...

Aspiring teachers are unfamiliar with basic principles of learning science and should learn how to connect those principles to practice, according to a new report from Deans for Impact. Last fall, ...

To the editor: Professor Laurence Steinberg’s call to let 16-year-olds vote is not science-based, contrary to his assertion. (“A 16-year-old is as good as an 18-year-old -- or a 40-year-old -- at ...

Clara Herrera, a Tetrad student in the department of Biochemistry, works in the Engel Lab at UCSF in March 2020. The Tetrad Graduate Program is supported by the Discovery Fellows program. Photo by ...