This issue of Yale Medicine Magazine highlights the fundamental nature of basic science research. At Yale School of Medicine (YSM), basic scientists are building foundational knowledge across every ...

Basic studies led to clinical and translational advances that no one could have predicted,” Robert Gallo writes of his work ...

Critical thinking: It is vital to create an environment in which fundamental science can thrive. (Courtesy: iStock/Pobytov) History teaches us that fundamental science is critical to the development ...

Around the world, budgets for fundamental research — studies that seek primarily to advance knowledge for its own sake, without an expectation of a return on investment — are coming under pressure to ...

In creating five new isotopes, an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to Earth. These represent ...

A young child arrives at the hospital with a complex array of unexplained symptoms — no clear diagnosis, no obvious path forward. It could be a rare disease with few documented cases, or an atypical ...

As the story is usually told, science began when some deep thinkers in ancient Greece decided to reject the popular mythological explanations for various natural phenomena. Those early philosophers ...

This chapter describes a selection of recent discoveries in high energy density (HED) science, highlighting advances in basic science and opportunities for contributing to society (see Table 2-1). The ...

The current pandemic, and maybe even more importantly the next one, will be beaten in the laboratory by strong fundamental science that informs smart medical responses and public policy. One of the ...

"This latest publication highlights ways researchers have leveraged microgravity to isolate and study fundamental physical phenomena typically obscured by gravity-induced forces," said lead author ...

High energy density (HED) science seeks to understand and control material at extreme conditions—at temperatures over 20,000°F (approximately 10,000°C, or 10 4 K), pressures millions of times larger ...

In creating five new isotopes, scientists have brought the stars closer to Earth. The isotopes are known as thulium-182, thulium-183, ytterbium-186, ytterbium-187 and lutetium-190. In creating five ...