His interests for the last several years have been on climate change, in particular with the fundamental science issues underlying "global warming".

"The fundamental science just exploded after his working in the field."

Human health research provides the fundamental science needed to solve environmental problems.

He forgot all about his fundamental science for a moment.

I have never known anyone working in fundamental science who was not motivated by the desire to understand the way the world is.

At the same time, American industry is cutting costs, with research and development shifting from fundamental science to applied engineering.

As support for fundamental science in the United States declines, so does the use of its scientists.

"For the last 30 years we've been engineering the device, and now what's required is fundamental science," he said in a telephone interview today.

Mathematics is one of the oldest and most fundamental sciences.

We believe that fundamental and basic science must be one of the great priorities.