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Oil and food coloring in water experiment that creates firework effects

This video explores a simple science experiment where oil and food coloring interact in water to create visually striking ...
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Basic research advances science, and can also have broader impacts on modern society

It might seem surprising, but federal research funding isn't just for scientists. A component of many federal grants that support basic research requires that discoveries be shared with nonscientists.
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DOE Research in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering

Please see the full solicitation for complete information about the funding opportunity. Below is a summary assembled by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO). The objective of this program is to ...
Nature

Will the public support basic science? A new non-profit aims to find out

Virginia Gewin is a freelance reporter in Portland, Oregon. Amid a backdrop of massive cuts in US federal support for scientific research, a new effort — the Science Foundation — launched last week to ...
The New York Times

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller ...
STAT

Basic science publications have been falling for a decade. NIH budget cut would likely accelerate the decline

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. The number of basic science papers published by recipients of ...