When lockdown measures were announced in France and other countries, secondary-school teachers and university professors had to quickly make the transition from classroom teaching to remote education.

SIR HENRY FOWLER went on to speak of the importance of fundamental research and of the ‘marrying-up’ of research with its practical applications. There is nowadays unquestionably much better ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...