There are four wings to the Earth Science building of the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md. But on Aug. 8, "we added a virtual fifth wing," says NASA emeritus scientist Milton Halem ...

The world’s food systems face real and urgent challenges. These include climate change, nutrition insecurity, food safety, and unequal access to markets. Research has produced practical solutions to ...

For the first time, scientists and policy-makers are creating a regional strategy for scientific projects in Latin America, starting with a focus on high-energy physics and cosmology. Earlier this ...

The demand for advanced therapeutics and new drug modalities is expected to explode in the coming decade. For example, more than 2,000 gene therapies and modified cell therapies are currently under ...

Scaling is one of the biggest challenges any company faces, requiring founders and leaders to set aside their science and innovation skills, and become experts in finance, recruitment, networking and ...

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Academic scientists should collaborate more frequently with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to speed discoveries and to reduce overall costs when engaged in large-scale biomedical research ...