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The National Research Foundation, India’s new research funding agency with a Rs 50,000 crore budget, aims to boost research and innovation.

Predatory journals could weaken public confidence in the validity of research on everything from health and agriculture to economics and journalism.

Next year, I'll become a Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA School of Law, after 30 years of teaching, and move (effective July 1, 2024) to the Hoover Institution at Stanford, where I'll be a Senior Fellow—essentially like a permanent, tenured research faculty position, but with no teaching obligations. Technically,…

Govt. institutes Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) to felicitate scientists, technologists & innovators. 56 prizes, no cash component, certificates & medallions. Awards for 13 categories, incl. physics, chemistry, biology, etc. & ‘Others’. Replaces 300 prizes, most internal, incl. DAE & Dept. of Space. Awarded annually on May 11 & Aug. 23.…

Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice, human rights and other topics that benefit the public at large.

French and Canadian scientist Michel Sadelain was announced as a winner of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize for his pioneering work in CAR T-cell therapy

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