Prognosis for basic research

Basic Research Needs for Superconductivity

New champion for basic research

The Max Planck Society is one of Europe’s most prestigious science funding agencies, but the new president, molecular biologist Peter Gruss, faces a tough challenge ahead with growing competition for research funds and the changing European and international landscape of research. Based in Germany, but with links in other European countries and beyond, the Max Planck Society (MPS) was establish...

PART I. BASIC RESEARCH Introduction to Basic Research

Since Stephen Paget’s “seed-and-soil” theory was published in 1889, a wealth of research has focused on the cascade of events involved in the spread of cancer cells from the primary tumor to secondary organs. As Paget highlighted, in addition to the intrinsic properties of metastatic cancer cells, features of the microenvironment in target organs of metastasis are also critical for successful t...

Basic and translational research

1Division of Rheumatology and Immunogenetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA 2Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA 3Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA 4Department of Medicine/ Rheumatolog...

The need for Basic Energy Research

About the Authors Giorgio Benedek, former Professor of Structure of Matter at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Visiting Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastian, is presently the EPL Editor-in-Chief and Fellow of EPS. He is a condensed matter physicist mainly interested in surface dynamics, surface phonon spectroscopy, electron-phonon interaction, and low-dime...