Could “fatty” or “starchy” one day become accepted as the sixth basic taste alongside the likes of sweet and salty?

Funding cuts, visa restrictions, and assaults on the scientific enterprise itself threaten to turn the next generation’s ...

China's New Cornerstone Investigator Program, one of the country's largest privately funded initiatives for basic science, ...

GUEST COMMENTARY—During a recent venture capital class, I was asked: what percentage of a biotech startup’s equity should a university retain when it is the company’s founders who conceive the key ...

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 ...

Consciousness is fundamental; only thereafter do time, space and matter arise. This is the starting point for a new theoretical model of the nature of reality, presented by Maria Strømme, Professor of ...