Bruce J. MacFadden has received funding from the U. S. National Science Foundation. It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn’t just for scientists. A component of many federal grants ...

Two recent gifts to the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine support research into idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a devastating disease in which tissue deep in the lungs ...

The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research. In December 1947, three physicists at Bell Telephone ...

On the following pages, you’ll meet just a few of the UAB scientists whose discoveries hold tremendous potential to transform the treatment landscape for a variety of diseases, from kidney disease to ...

Progress, despite what you have heard lately from some environmentalists and populists (of the left and right), is good. Really good, in fact. The new working paper “A Calculation of the Social ...

Ryan Summers receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is affiliated with the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE), NARST, ...

Taking Tanzania as an example, this paper systematically analyzes the current situation and challenges of primary school science education in Africa through questionnaires and interviews. The study ...

As Tamil Nadu approaches its Assembly elections, its ambition to become a $1-trillion economy and its position as one of India’s leading industrial and knowledge hubs means it’s worth examining how ...

As John Vervaeke notes, we are facing a meaning crisis, whereby we have lost a shared sense of what is true and good. This suggests that new maps of meaning are necessary. The Tree of Knowledge System ...