The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support ...

The push to reduce spending on foundational research is shortsighted, Tesla A. Monson and Marianne F. Brasil write.

[David Helfand]: She pulled out eight plane tickets—there were eight of us in the class—to fly us to Tucson, Arizona for the month of January, we used to have January off, just to meet astronomers, ...

Re “America Is Losing Its Pull for Best Minds in Science” (front page, June 4): There is another dimension by which the best minds are leaving science, particularly basic research. For years, about ...