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U.S. science: Not enough funding or risk-taking research

U.S. science dominance faces threats from a lack of ground-breaking research and too little funding for young scientists, a blue-ribbon panel said Tuesday.

In the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report, a committee headed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute chief Thomas Cech warned that too much science funding goes to established researchers making only incremental advances, rather than high-risk, high-reward experiments by young investigators.

Full Story: http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2008/06/us-science-not.html

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