It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

The 2025 Annual Report from the Basic Sciences Division at Fred Hutch features the divisions reflections for the year, as ...

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 ...

The White House threat to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research would be a deep setback to scientific ...

The Golden Goose Awards recognize research projects that may appear obscure at first, but ultimately lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The three recipients of the Golden Goose Award for 2024 ...

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 ...

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

Just 11 U.S. universities received 25% of all the federal research funding awarded to universities and colleges in 2021. And of these top research-funded universities, nine of them are located on ...

So Young Kim is director of the Korea Policy Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and an associate professor of the Graduate School of Science & Technology Policy at KAIST in Daejon, South ...

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 ...

We ask auto and steel workers to compete with the world, yet we treat research funding as something that must be protected ...

Basic research is at the foundation of all scientific discoveries, underlying the innovative cures and treatments developed at Fred Hutch. Founded in 1981, the Basic Sciences Division has continually ...