In Canada, as in many other countries, there is an expectation that universities, the producers of the research, will advance innovation by starting up companies and by filing and licensing patents.

Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.

Critics of two reports by the academies have cited potential disclosure problems among study panelists. Now, an official says, the idea of a policy review "has just gained more and more traction."

Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to A.I. could change that.

How might machine learning shape the way we move through and interact with the immediate environment around us?

The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.

Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.

Take proposals that should never have been submitted out of the figures, and the chances of winning funding look a lot brighter.

We all love science when it’s making life better, longer and easier. It’s a much harder sell when it points to inconvenient truths about our way of life

They say they don't have the time or incentives to do research — and that’s dangerous for translational medicine.

Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health