The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

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Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...

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 ...

The passage of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” on July 4, 2025 was the death knell for basic scientific research in the United States. As part of the largest redistribution of ...

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Simple science experiments suitable for home learning show hands-on activities that illustrate basic principles.