Two recent gifts to the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine support research into idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a devastating disease in which tissue deep in the lungs ...

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.

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. In the 19th century, for example, Charles Darwin made an expensive voyage to the southernmost tip of the Americas, visiting ...

On the following pages, you’ll meet just a few of the UAB scientists whose discoveries hold tremendous potential to transform the treatment landscape for a variety of diseases, from kidney disease to ...

Research is the pursuit of new knowledge through the process of discovery. Scientific research involves diligent inquiry and systematic observation of phenomena. Most scientific research projects ...

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The pandemic has rolled back decades of economic progress and wrought havoc on public finances. To build back better and fight climate change, sizable public investment needs to be sustainably ...

The technology industry has raised an alarm. There are not enough workers trained in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to fill positions in their companies. Non-STEM industries ...

The emergency use authorizations of mRNA vaccines by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna and the likely gradual rollout of multiple others is our collective best hope for curtailing the Covid-19 pandemic. The ...

What is the human psyche and what is its relationship to the science of psychology? Is the human psyche a scientific construct? Can it be “reduced” to the brain? UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge ...

As John Vervaeke notes, we are facing a meaning crisis, whereby we have lost a shared sense of what is true and good. This suggests that new maps of meaning are necessary. The Tree of Knowledge System ...