Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The number of basic science papers published by recipients of ...

The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...

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 ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government. “They have cancelled wholesale a ...