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Eighty years ago, presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush delivered to President Harry S. Truman a remarkable report entitled “Science-The Endless Frontier.” In this report, Bush described the ...

To the editor: In James B. Milliken’s op-ed, mention is made of Vannevar Bush’s report “Science, the Endless Frontier” (“Science funding and immigration fuel America’s innovation. They’re at risk,” ...

Walk down the hallway that leads to the president’s office of the Salk Institute and you see six photographs on the wall. They show the six Nobel Prize winners who did their life-science research at ...

In the final year of World War II, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told the director of the organization that oversaw the Manhattan Project—as well critical advancements in the mass production of ...

When Michael Kratsios—a.k.a. the White House’s top science and tech guru under President Trump—declared that U.S. innovations now “manipulate time and space,” we had to check our calendars… twice.

On cover: Reissued as part of the tenth anniversary observance, National Science Foundation, 1950-1960. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...

Over the course of just three days recently, five scientists affiliated with the University of California won Nobel prizes for discoveries that can help us more effectively treat conditions such as ...

Endless Frontier Labs at NYU Stern has been named the Prix Galien winner in the Best Incubator/Accelerator/Equity category. The Prix Galien is an international program that recognizes advances in ...