New bibliometric tool combs through scientific literature, patents, and grants to forecast future impact, but experts disagree about its usefulness ...

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine will send a series of human health research experiments aboard the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, the first ...

The Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research Acceleration Fund provided $2 million in funding to eight faculty members’ research ...

Six projects will investigate innovative approaches that could help slow Arctic sea ice loss and reduce escalating ...

Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s three human spaceflight missions, announced today the extensive suite of science and research experiments the crew and SpaceX will conduct throughout ...

‘Focused research organizations’ can take on mid-scale projects that don’t get tackled by academia, venture capitalists or government labs. It takes more than a great idea to accomplish a great ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are helping to pave a path for the eventual discovery of dark matter. With new approaches to measurement in the quantum realm, ...

With many experts believing or entertaining the unproven possibility that COVID-19 had its origins in a laboratory, the pandemic re-ignited a debate over how the government should oversee federally ...

The UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion is calling for proposals for survey research by members of the UMass Lowell faculty. The purpose of the proposals is to support academic survey research in ...

A decade ago, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets to engineer a highly lethal flu virus. The purpose of the research — known as “gain of function” — was to better ...