Funding basic research plays the long game for future payoffs
- Written by Jeffrey Gardner, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
It takes time to see which finding might be a golden egg.Neamov/Shutterstock.comThe Senate recently proposed to increase the research budgets of the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and NASA. While this is encouraging to the many scientists whose research is dependent on grants from these agencies, it comes at a time when...
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