The belief that basic or pure research lays the foundation for applied research was fixed in science policy circles by Vannevar Bush's 1945 report on Science: The Endless Frontier. Unfortunately ...

Queen's has a rich and varied history in engineering and applied physics. Research in the group covers a wide range of topics, with the common theme of using basic science and physics to improve the ...

Skyrmion research: Braids of nanovortices discovered Date: October 6, 2021 Source: Forschungszentrum Juelich Summary: A team of scientists has discovered a new physical phenomenon: complex braided ...

R&D combined two ideas: “basic research,” which aims at discovering new science that doesn’t have a near-term commercial application, and all the other research, which does focus on developing a ...

An example is quantum computing. We have been investing in that area for more than 30 years, starting from fundamental research, and without that work we would not have an IBM quantum computer on the ...

Historical examples of basic science work that led eventually to applied breakthroughs include the discovery of the anticancer drug cisplatin by Barnett Rosenberg of Michigan State University while he ...

From this analysis, the researchers found that 3.9% of publications produced by basic research awards, 7.4% produced by applied research awards, and 13.4% of the CTSA program publications were ...

When actual research is considered, the difference between basic and applied research is difficult to identify. Rodin's The Thinker. Source: Jean-David & Anne-Laure via Wikimedia Commons ...

Basic research in many sciences can lead to later applications. In cognitive psychology, for example, research on lists of words and other lab tasks demonstrated that mental images play an ...