Our Faculty is committed to sustained basic research. Without it, we cannot deliver scientific breakthroughs or innovations. Basic research provides the foundation for all scholarly research. It ...

A few weeks ago, I told my eldest son’s wife that I planned to write and publish after retirement from the University of Winnipeg. She didn’t understand, because she thought the job of university ...

In 1917, French physicist Paul Langévin began conducting experiments on ultrasonic energy. His work inspired others, including Dr. Karl Dussik, an Austrian neurologist, who in the 1940s became the ...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) have announced the 2025 Golden Goose Awards, a recognition that spotlights obscure, ...

Basic research is driven by curiosity. Also known as discovery research, owing to its emphasis on the quest for knowledge rather than commercial applications, basic research has led to breakthroughs ...

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

The full spectrum of military environments experienced by today’s soldiers includes many significant contextual forces that influence perceptions and behavior—both positively and negatively. It is ...