The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, of the University of Pennsylvania, for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of genetic material ...

The vast majority of research-and-development work takes place in private industry, so the Naval Research Lab relies on collaboration and partnerships with industry to fulfill the Navy's R&D needs.

In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) have announced the 2025 Golden Goose Awards, a recognition that spotlights obscure, ...

Amidst ongoing budget brinkmanship in Washington, House and Senate panels have proposed significant cuts in federal funding for basic scientific research. That would be a grave mistake for our ...

As the federal administration has moved to slash public funding for research and education at all levels, and as the government now enters into what could be a prolonged shutdown, many researchers are ...

Exterior view of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While the Trump Administration's sharp increases in tariffs have received much of the political and economic attention in our ...

Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), also known as Technology Readiness Assessments, help policymakers, philanthropies and investors, and innovators determine the development stage of emerging ...

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 ...