The purpose of research can be a complicated issue and varies across different scientific fields and disciplines. At the most basic level, science can be split, loosely, into two types, 'pure research' and 'applied research'.
There is a multitude of reasons why research is undertaken, ranging from pure curiosity and a desire to understand how things work to expanding knowledge in order to advance humanities ability to achieve certain goals, such as healing diseases, or going into space. Some researchers simply want to expand their own knowledge, while others hope … Read more
