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Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your life

  • Written by Paul Bierman, Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves economic growth, national security and your lifeThe National Science Foundation funds America's next great innovations, including space-related research.Heritage Space/Heritage Images/Getty Images

Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using funding from the U.S. National Science...

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