It's National Science Week, so we thought we'd test your basic science knowledge.

Steve G Hoffman, Thinking science with thinking machines: The multiple realities of basic and applied knowledge in a research border zone, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2015), pp.

Today, basic science — the pursuit of knowledge without immediate practical application — is increasingly imperiled as policymakers challenge funding decisions and push for more narrowly ...

Both the basic sciences and the clinical experiences provided during medical school are important in shaping a future physician's practice.

Natalie Angier talked about her book [The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science], published by Houghton Mifflin. She drew on conversations with hundreds of the world's top ...

Knowledge of climate change consequences correlates with concern in some countries.

MIT President L. Rafael Reif’s “The Dividends of Funding Basic Science,” op-ed, Dec. 6, talks about basic and applied research as though they are fundamentally different. They are not.

On the NewsHour Monday, science correspondent Miles O'Brien took a tour of SNOLab, the underground physics laboratory, about 250 miles north of Toronto, that is trying to answer one of the great ...