basic research

However, adjusted for inflation, R&D budget authority remains below FY 2010 levels

Plan includes $14.6 billion proposed for basic and applied research, up $900 million from 2016

Team aims to build Africa's first synchrotron light source to boost basic and applied research in many disciplines

Professors Sharon Belenzon and Ashish Arora studied investment decline in scientific research.

$2.2B spent on medical, science, engineering research in FY2013.

With Republicans now at the helm, Congress is gearing up to pursue a legislative agenda with potentially profound implications for science and how it informs policies on the environment, energy, health and agriculture.

In 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) built on a 62-year tradition of translating basic science into technologies that ensure national security, address pressing real world problems and expand the boundaries of fundamental science.

Sigma-Aldrich issues second annual "State of Translational Research Survey Report", conducted in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Academic Drug Discovery Consortium (ADDC).

Everyday people should have more weight in what topics university researchers investigate, said Dutch education minister Jet Bussemaker and her junior minister Sander Dekker, according to English-language news site DutchNews.nl.

Five U.S. departments and agencies provided most of the federal funding for basic research.