Last fall, a year after the anthrax attacks sounded a bioterrorism alarm, Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, promised that he would strive ...

Applied research is often considered to have no theoretical value. When actual research is considered, the difference between basic and applied research is difficult to identify.

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 ...

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 ...

Traditionally, basic plant research is motivated by curiosity to understand fundamental biological phenomena, while applied research is mainly motivated by practical applications.

Applied science may yield more translational research publications than basic science Researchers calculated percentage of translational research funded by NIH between 2008-2014 Date: May 9, 2018 ...