Our Faculty is committed to sustained basic research. Without it, we cannot deliver scientific breakthroughs or innovations. Basic research provides the foundation for all scholarly research. It ...

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.

Governments are demanding more value for money from scientists, which is putting fundamental research under increasing pressure. Scientists should know how to champion it more effectively. However, ...

The belief that basic or pure research lays the foundation for applied research was fixed in science policy circles by Vannevar Bush's 1945 report on Science: The Endless Frontier. Unfortunately, his ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) have announced the 2025 Golden Goose Awards, a recognition that spotlights obscure, ...

Matt Valle, left, of the C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, plants seeds with greenhouse manager Eric Haddix in a UC Davis greenhouse. (UC Davis photo) While we’re enjoying the last days of ...

A big waste of money or the engine of marketplace innovation? That's how some people see basic scientific research. Now a new study shows how basic research and inventions are connected. Scientific ...

Jeffrey Gardner receives funding from the US Department of Energy. The Senate recently proposed to increase the research budgets of the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and ...

This simulated image captured at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Nov 12, 2022 shows China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 5 having conducted a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the ...

Basic research is driven by curiosity. Also known as discovery research, owing to its emphasis on the quest for knowledge rather than commercial applications, basic research has led to breakthroughs ...