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 ...

I had a meeting with IBM’s head of research at its Rational User Conference last year in Orlando and got into a discussion about the process for R&D as it actually happens in the lab. I liked the fact ...

A new study published in the journal Science reveals that researchers who both publish papers and file patents—dubbed “Pasteur’s quadrant researchers”—produce work that is more novel and more ...

Studying Pure and Applied Mathematics means mastering the universal language that that shapes everything from ocean currents to encryption systems to the spiral of a snail’s shell. What can I do with ...

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it would result in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the ...