In our era of intense innovation-based global competition, policymakers increasingly look for demonstrable connections between public investment in research and tangible economic and security benefits ...

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in basic science. The five winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in ...

Re “America Is Losing Its Pull for Best Minds in Science” (front page, June 4): There is another dimension by which the best minds are leaving science, particularly basic research. For years, about ...