The fund seeks to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering.

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine will send a series of human health research experiments aboard the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission, the first ...

Explore how new modules, racks, and specialized facilities on NASA’s International Space Station expanded research potential, enabling diverse experiments in microgravity and increasing access for ...

Personnel with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) conducted a construction experiment on South ...

NASA opens the International Space Station for scientists and researchers, inviting them to use the benefits of microgravity ...

Our major research projects advance evidence on chronic disease, environmental exposures, public health surveillance, and substance use to inform policy and improve population health.

Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s three human spaceflight missions, announced today the extensive suite of science and research experiments the crew and SpaceX will conduct throughout ...

‘Focused research organizations’ can take on mid-scale projects that don’t get tackled by academia, venture capitalists or government labs. It takes more than a great idea to accomplish a great ...

NEW YORK — Over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s funding cuts, according to a new report. Between the end of February and mid-August, ...

Scientific research is a messy business. The road to learning new things and making discoveries is paved with hard labor, tough thinking, and plenty of dead ends. It’s a time-consuming, expensive ...

The advent of web-based platforms for behavioural experimentation has revolutionised the way researchers approach data collection, enabling large-scale, cost-effective studies with diverse populations ...

A decade ago, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets to engineer a highly lethal flu virus. The purpose of the research — known as “gain of function” — was to better ...