Several weeks ago, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Sethuraman Panchanathan announced that the new Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) would focus on four ...

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 ...

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build ...

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 ...

L. Rafael Reif, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) KAIST held the 'KAIST Summit' on the 2nd of this month to commemorate its 50th anniversary. From left on screen are MIT ...

President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the ...