Top official greets scientists doing research from foundational to frontier, with country committed to raising R&D spending by at least 7 per cent a year Senior Chinese official Cai Qi welcomed ...

BEIJING, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) officially kicked off on July 13 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, gathering the ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

As many older companies move away from fundamental research, young technology firms are picking up the slack. The sensors enable aerial drones to track endangered animals and record changes in their ...

The 2026 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) opened in Beijing on Sunday, drawing more than 1,000 participants, including scientists, researchers ...

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 ...

In this hyper-polarized political year, a consensus has quietly emerged inside the Beltway. Fears that the American “innovation engine” is stalling — potentially leaving China to gain competitive ...

The number of basic science papers published by recipients of National Institutes of Health grants has been falling since 2013, the year the agency’s budget was cut by 5%, according to a new analysis.

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Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...