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The radical dismantling of government-funded basic research will accelerate the deterioration of universities’ beneficent implementation of the scientific method — the greatest accomplishment of ...

In a rebuff of the Trump administration’s proposal to drastically cut funding for federal science agencies, the Senate voted ...

Simple home experiments that illustrate basic science make abstract concepts tangible.