For the love of frontier research, or why Elon's rockets keep blowing up

Nektarios Tavernarakis

doi:10.1038/s44319-025-00587-2

For the love of frontier research, or why Elon's rockets keep blowing up

EMBO Rep. 2025 Oct;26(20):4889-4892. doi: 10.1038/s44319-025-00587-2. Epub 2025 Sep 29.

Author

Nektarios Tavernarakis^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, 71003, Greece. tavernarakis@imbb.forth.gr.
² Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, 70013, Greece. tavernarakis@imbb.forth.gr.

Abstract

The current Zeitgeist favouring utilitarian research risks undermining basic research—the very foundation on which innovative technological advances depend.

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