The Department of Energy is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

ENGADGET: Cray's Jaguar supercomputer upgraded with NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, renamed Titan

The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

ENGADGET: NOvA neutrino detector captures cosmic rays in 3D, aims to unlock the mysteries of the universe

When the director of basic sciences at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle received a call at half past two in the morning from a Swedish professor, he assumed the caller was looking for a job.

ECONOMIST: The Nobel prizes

These will each be responsible for developing a quality programme at their institution for education, research, innovation and the commercialization of new products involving converging technologies and the basic sciences associated with these technologies.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

Now there still may be a case for the government investment of dollars into truly basic, risky research, as the government does in the sciences.

FORBES: The Magical--and Flawed--DARPA Analogy?

The basic concept of ESTABLISH is focused around the creation of authentic environmental research learning for natural sciences, involving all of the interested stakeholders.

UNESCO: South Eastern Mediterranean Sea Project (SEMEP)