{"id":229500,"date":"2026-01-21T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/video-why-basic-science-is-the-foundation-of-innovation"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:13:42","slug":"video-why-basic-science-is-the-foundation-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/video-why-basic-science-is-the-foundation-of-innovation","title":{"rendered":"Video: Why \u2018basic science\u2019 is the foundation of innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8GTAd9EU2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren\u2019t trying to build better medical tools or high-speed internet. They were simply curious about how the universe worked at its most fundamental level.<\/p>\n<p>Yet without that \u201ccuriosity-driven\u201d research\u2014often called basic science\u2014the modern world would look unrecognizable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasic science drives the really big discoveries,\u201d says Steve Kahn, UC Berkeley\u2019s dean of mathematical and physical sciences. \u201cThose paradigm changes are what really drive innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren\u2019t trying to build better medical tools or high-speed internet. They were simply curious about how the universe worked at its most fundamental level. Yet without that \u201ccuriosity-driven\u201d research\u2014often called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,418,2229,1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-internet","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}