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China’s Sci-Tech University Starts Admissions for Fusion Energy Undergrads
(Yicai) May 11 — The University of Science and Technology of China, one of the country’s top academic…
#Energy #basicresearch #EngineeringTransformation #FusionEnergyMajor #NewMajor #NewUndergraduateMajor #TalentCultivation #technologydevelopment #UniversityOfScienceAndTechnologyOfChina
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China’s Sci-Tech University Starts Admissions for Fusion Energy Undergrads https://www.byteseu.com/2009893/ #BasicResearch #Energy #EngineeringTransformation #FusionEnergyMajor #NewMajor #NewUndergraduateMajor #TalentCultivation #TechnologyDevelopment #UniversityOfScienceAndTechnologyOfChina
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A top superbike reignites debate over #Chinese #innovation
"innovation activities in #China r still dominated by incremental innovation.. while #basicresearch-based radical innovat'n activities remain insufficient.. ZXMOTO’s 820RR shows high-performance #engineering need not require premium pricing. Though these aren't “zero to one” breakthroughs, they represent an impactful & #practical form of innovation: one tt lowers costs, expands #access & reshapes markets fr w'in"👍
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@sflorg #Structuralbiology is an important #basicresearch direction that aims to gain information about dynamics and interactions of #biological molecules. This research relies on high-tech, including #cryoelectronmicroscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (#NMR) spectroscopy, and X-ray #crystallography. Goals are a better understanding and e.g. the creation of #molecular #dynamicssimulations.
StefanFWirthreading
https://humantechnopole.it/en/research-centres/structural-biology/
H. Schwalbe et al. (2024)
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@sflorg #Structuralbiology is an important #basicresearch direction that aims to gain information about dynamics and interactions of #biological molecules. This research relies on high-tech, including #cryoelectronmicroscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (#NMR) spectroscopy, and X-ray #crystallography. Goals are a better understanding and e.g. the creation of #molecular #dynamicssimulations.
StefanFWirthreading
https://humantechnopole.it/en/research-centres/structural-biology/
H. Schwalbe et al. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2024.08.014 -
@sflorg #Structuralbiology is an important #basicresearch direction that aims to gain information about dynamics and interactions of #biological molecules. This research relies on high-tech, including #cryoelectronmicroscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (#NMR) spectroscopy, and X-ray #crystallography. Goals are a better understanding and e.g. the creation of #molecular #dynamicssimulations.
StefanFWirthreading
https://humantechnopole.it/en/research-centres/structural-biology/
H. Schwalbe et al. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2024.08.014 -
@sflorg #Structuralbiology is an important #basicresearch direction that aims to gain information about dynamics and interactions of #biological molecules. This research relies on high-tech, including #cryoelectronmicroscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (#NMR) spectroscopy, and X-ray #crystallography. Goals are a better understanding and e.g. the creation of #molecular #dynamicssimulations.
StefanFWirthreading
https://humantechnopole.it/en/research-centres/structural-biology/
H. Schwalbe et al. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2024.08.014 -
@sflorg #Structuralbiology is an important #basicresearch direction that aims to gain information about dynamics and interactions of #biological molecules. This research relies on high-tech, including #cryoelectronmicroscopy (EM), nuclear magnetic resonance (#NMR) spectroscopy, and X-ray #crystallography. Goals are a better understanding and e.g. the creation of #molecular #dynamicssimulations.
StefanFWirthreading
https://humantechnopole.it/en/research-centres/structural-biology/
H. Schwalbe et al. (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2024.08.014 -
GSI/FAIR and #THM are joining forces for cancer treatment! 🤝 Together, we are advancing #ParticleTherapy at MIT Marburg and worldwide.
Our focus: #FLASHRadiotherapy ⚡ (high radiation doses delivered in milliseconds). We are investigating the underlying #Radiochemistry and new application techniques to translate this approach from #BasicResearch into clinical use.
#Medicine #CancerResearch #Darmstadt #Marburg #Science
https://www.gsi.de/en/start/news/details/2026/03/26/zusammenarbeit-thm -
RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch/116278062089212218
A "pan that communicates with the stove via Bluetooth"? - What would they talk about? - Gossip about me cooking?
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#bluetooth #BasicResearch #science #pan #cooking #KuhnRikon #SwissNationalScienceFoundation -
RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch/116278062089212218
A "pan that communicates with the stove via Bluetooth"? - What would they talk about? - Gossip about me cooking?
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RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch/116278062089212218
A "pan that communicates with the stove via Bluetooth"? - What would they talk about? - Gossip about me cooking?
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RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch/116278062089212218
A "pan that communicates with the stove via Bluetooth"? - What would they talk about? - Gossip about me cooking?
:-)
#bluetooth #BasicResearch #science #pan #cooking #KuhnRikon #SwissNationalScienceFoundation -
RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@snsf_ch/116278062089212218
A "pan that communicates with the stove via Bluetooth"? - What would they talk about? - Gossip about me cooking?
:-)
#bluetooth #BasicResearch #science #pan #cooking #KuhnRikon #SwissNationalScienceFoundation -
🥘 #BasicResearch and industry are working together to cook up innovation. The example of Kuhn Rikon shows that materials science is central to enabling pan manufacturers to maintain and improve their production.
Read more ➡️ https://sohub.io/lmnu
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🥘 #BasicResearch and industry are working together to cook up innovation. The example of Kuhn Rikon shows that materials science is central to enabling pan manufacturers to maintain and improve their production.
For more info ➡️ https://sohub.io/lmnu
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AmigaBASIC Compiler ACE: Update after more than 27 years
More than twenty-seven years after the AmigaBASIC compiler ACE, originally developed by David Benn since 1991, was released under the GPL, updates are now available. Manfred Bergmann writes about his release:
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🔬💡 New products thanks to #BasicResearch
In collaboration with EPFL, Stöckli developed innovative skis inspired by tortoise shells. 🐢🎿Mathieu Fauve reveals how the ski manufacturer applies scientific insights to create cutting-edge products: ➡️ https://sohub.io/0obc
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Unveiling the Underlying Secret of China’s AI Boom
When AI becomes the “infrastructure” for basic research and the transformation of…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #AIforScience #AI4S #america #basicresearch #Biomedicine #Chinesetechnologydevelopment #chips #DowstoneTechnologies #FangdaCarbon #industrialimplementation #Medicilon #newmaterials #policysupport #science #scientificresearchparadigmtransformation #technologicalinnovation #technology #unitedstatesofamerica
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China’s lagging basic research demands core tech pivot as US curbs bite: economic adviser
China cannot merely chase the technological frontier – it must seize ownership of i…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #basicresearch #Beijing #Business #CA #Canada #ChinaCentreforInternationalEconomicExchanges #coretechnologies #highfence #NationalDevelopmentandReformCommission #NationalSchoolofDevelopment #PekingUniversity #smallyard #theUS #UnitedStates #WangYiming #washington
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Without #BasicResearch, there would be no #innovation – including at Planted.
Planted's meat alternatives are in high demand. But without prior research, there would be no vegan ‘meat’ today, nor companies producing it, such as that of co-founder Lukas Böni.Find out here how research and innovation are paving the way for the future:
👉 https://sohub.io/pm74𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 🤝 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗡𝗦𝗙 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀. -
🍴💧 🚱 Massive amounts of greenhouse gases and excessive water consumption: Intensive animal farming has consequences for our planet. 🌍 This calls for innovative solutions. Thanks to #BasicResearch, creative minds are able to develop tasty alternatives. 🥗 🌱 💡
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🤖🏭 In Switzerland, there are around 10,000 companies in the machinery, electrical engineering and metals sectors with over 300,000 employees.
Thanks to #basicresearch, they’re always up to date with state-of-the-art technology. ➡️ https://sohub.io/g60k
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🔮📈 Iwan Stalder, Head of Group Accumulation Management at Zurich Insurance Group, explains why #basicresearch is crucial for the company's 75 million customers and more than 60,000 employees worldwide.
Read more ➡️ https://sohub.io/ppcc
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❓What does #BasicResearch have to offer the insurance industry? More than you might think! From climate knowledge to AI: In a conversation with Zurich Insurance Group, we show how #research makes innovation possible. 📊🌍🤖
Read more here👉 https://sohub.io/vqwc
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#BasicResearch creates the basis for ➡️ #innovation and social well-being. Every year, the SNSF invests around 800 million Swiss francs in outstanding basic research. 🧠💡
🔗 Find out more about the benefits in our series of news and reels: https://sohub.io/k1u5
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James Watson died a few days ago.
In 1953, together with Francis Crick, he had published a short text in “Nature”. It is written in a subdued style. One of the first sentences says “This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest”; another sentence is “So far as we can tell, it is roughly compatible with the experimental data, but it must be regarded as unproved until it has been checked against more exact results".
This was the first published description of the structure of DNA as a double helix. In 1962, Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the Nobel Prize (unfortunately, the key role of Rosalind Franklin was not appreciated at the time). A few decades later, when the enormous importance of their discoveries is already known, it feels strange to read such cautious phrases: “novel features”, “considerable biological interest”, “it must be regarded as unproved”.
But this is the language of basic research that changes the world. And that is why this research needs to be financed, even though it does not immediately bring spectacular results.
Watson and Crick’s article (extremely brief): https://www.nature.com/articles/171737a0.epdf
On the role of Rosalind Franklin: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5?
On racism and sexism in Watson's later life: https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Public funding of #science in #US has long been criticized for supporting studies that seem “silly” or irrelevant to public good. Such critiques are especially intense now.
Wide-ranging, curiosity-driven research has led to enormous benefits, ranging from anti-obesity drugs to the internet.
#Scientists need to speak to value of government-supported #basicresearch, so public understands how much damage will result if we continue funding cuts.
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Just how bad will #climatechange get? The only way to know is to fund #basicresearch
Predictions of #climate change are uncertain. That’s why we need to keep finding out how our atmosphere works.
How seriously should people be taking climate change? United Nations secretary-general António Gutteres considers it an existential threat. Yet, US President Donald Trump has decreed it a hoax.
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The EU / ERC just published a workshop report on Research & Innovation for a Competitive Europe: "Many participants pointed out that researchers’ mobility between sectors remains limited, with academic careers often requiring narrow specialisation rather than broader engagement."
The report includes calls for:
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
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How the federal government came to fund research at #universities : Planet Money : NPR
“This episode is part of our series Pax Americana, about how the #Trump administration and others are challenging a set of post-World War II policies that placed the U.S. at the center of the economic universe.” #HigherEd #basicResearch #research
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In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.
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Trump team freezes new #NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The #NationalScienceFoundation is the latest #US agency to be disrupted by #ElonMusk’s #DOGE. With a budget of US$9 billion, the NSF is one of the largest funders of #basicresearch in the world.
DOGE is also reviewing a list of active research grants, assessed in February by NSF, for terms associated with diversity, equity and inclusion (#DEI). It is considering terminating more than 200 of them.
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From a fruit fly’s wings, they learned how bodies are built (The Globe and Mail (Ontario Edition)), Apr 11, 2025
https://globe2go.pressreader.com/article/281638196037429A marcelous micro tale on the value of #BasicResearch
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With the cuts going on in the name of efficiency and so-called DEI imperialism it's no surprise science YouTube is in trouble. It's sad.
If you at all understand the progress in the 20th century, you'll know it's the result of a relay race involving both private and public sectors. In the coming week's I'll be talking a lot about "antirival" goods and why we need a better collective understanding of them.
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NSF director: US Antarctic research has national impact - Enlarge (credit: Jean Varner, National Science Foundation)
... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1991997 #nationalsciencefoundation #basicresearch #sciencepolicy #antarctica #research #science
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California Nobel laureate John Martinis won’t quit on quantum computers
A California physicist and Nobel laureate who laid the foundation for quantum computing isn’t done working. For the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #basicresearch #californiaphysicist #development #experiment #johnclarke #johnmartinis #micheldevoret #professor #quantumcomputer #Science #thing #U.S. #UCBerkeley #UCSantaBarbara #university #year
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California Nobel laureate John Martinis won’t quit on quantum computers
A California physicist and Nobel laureate who laid the foundation for quantum computing isn’t done working. For the…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #basicresearch #californiaphysicist #development #experiment #johnclarke #johnmartinis #micheldevoret #professor #quantumcomputer #Science #thing #U.S. #UCBerkeley #UCSantaBarbara #university #year
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In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.
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In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.
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In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.
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In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.
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Three scientists win #nobelprize in #physics for probing #electrons https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/10/03/nobel-prize-physics-winners-electrons/ #Attosecond #AppliedScience #BasicResearch
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
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The European Research Council (@ERC_Research) supports top scientists in #BasicResearch with grants worth millions. They are among the most important funding programs in #Europe. Our awardees: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/erc-grants #mdc30 #ERC @helmholtz_en
