A young child arrives at the hospital with a complex array of unexplained symptoms — no clear diagnosis, no obvious path forward. It could be a rare disease with few documented cases, or an atypical ...

Critical thinking: It is vital to create an environment in which fundamental science can thrive. (Courtesy: iStock/Pobytov) History teaches us that fundamental science is critical to the development ...

Around the world, budgets for fundamental research — studies that seek primarily to advance knowledge for its own sake, without an expectation of a return on investment — are coming under pressure to ...

It’s a pity that Matt Ridley dismisses basic science (“The Myth of Basic Science,” Review, Oct. 24). Without the very abstract general theory of relativity, your GPS navigation system wouldn’t work.

Thomas Merritt receives funding through a Discovery Grant from the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The current pandemic, and maybe even more importantly the next one, will ...

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