The UK-based AI company has mastered games. Next challenge: science. Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, dreams of using AI to solve fundamental problems in science. He joins Azeem Azhar ...

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 ...

GUEST COMMENTARY—During a recent venture capital class, I was asked: what percentage of a biotech startup’s equity should a university retain when it is the company’s founders who conceive the key ...

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 ...

Father of quantum recognised for 'seminal contributions to large-scale secure quantum communications and scalable quantum computation' Chinese quantum scientist Pan Jianwei has won the United Nations' ...

This program is free of charge; registration is required. Join Prof. David Gross (Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004) and Prof. Arieh Warshel (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2013) as they share how fundamental ...

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 ...

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 ...