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Every state wants to be home to the next Google or Facebook. But it’s no coincidence that those companies are located in California. The latest data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) show that three of every 10 corporate research dollars are now spent in California.
Federally funded research and development (R&D) is a hallmark of the U.S. economy but, it's under siege. To maximize and make apparent the economic returns from R&D, the next administration should seek to improve the local economic impact of federal R&D.
Significant strides in improving public access to scholarly publications and digital data help usher in an era of open science.
Scripps and Calibr set to join forces
Taking potshots at some scientific research is a pastime of American politics. But critics need to assess the merits of the research they target beforehand.
Uncertain government funding drives effort to beef up private support for research
Scientific American evaluates responses from Clinton, Trump, Johnson and Stein to 20 questions
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative aims to have major impact by 2100.
New report describes steps to double progress in 5 years
More than $300M in new STEM initiatives were announced at the White House Frontiers Conference.
President Obama Hosts Frontiers Conference, Focusing on the Potential of Science, Technology, and Innovation to Drive Prosperity and Address Challenges in Personal, Local, National, Global, and Interplanetary Frontiers for the Next 50 Years and Beyond.
Long-term basic research, substantially funded by the U.S. government, underlies some of industry's most profitable innovations.
New rules also loosen restrictions on Cuban-made pharmaceuticals.
A new report from the US Administration focuses on the opportunities, considerations, and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Last week, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg announced their new philanthropic initiative with the goal of “curing, preventing, and managing all diseases by the end of the century.” This may raise some eyebrows, but this effort—part of the $45 billion Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—joins forces with other philanthropists to push the envelope and support audacious ideas, with long-term commitments, to solve some of our greatest challenges.
