U.S. science: Not enough funding or risk-taking research
| June 4, 2008 |  View for printing |
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.
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