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No New Einsteins to Emerge If Science Funding Snubs Curiosity
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein would have bridled under today's research funding bureaucracy. It's time to allow scientists to indulge their curiosity again.
Funders Groan Under Growing Review Burden
The number of grant applications is going up in almost every country and field, whereas budgets are mostly flat or shrinking.
Don't Run Biomedical Science as a Business
Science should abandon its assembly-line mentality and rebuild for quality, not quantity, argues Michele Pagano.
From Mandates to Platforms: Have Funders Lost Patience With Publishers?
Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.
Research Funding: The Case for a Modified Lottery
On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.
Science, Sensationalized: How the Press Undermines Research Funding
Science, Sensationalized: How the Press Undermines Research Funding
Climate change is the perfect example of how a cut-and-dry scientific issue can become controversial if it is represented consistently in partisan terms. Let’s not drag funding into the fray as well.
Lawmakers Seek $1.1-Billion Boost for the NIH
Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives also rejects a White House plan to cut 'indirect cost' payments to research institutions.
'Replication Grants' Will Allow Researchers to Repeat Nine Influential Studies That Still Raise Questions
'Replication Grants' Will Allow Researchers to Repeat Nine Influential Studies That Still Raise Questions
A Dutch funding agency is making €3 million available to repeat landmark studies—including one published in 1960.
DARPA to Spend $65 million on Human Brain Modem
High-bandwidth connections into the brain could treat blindness, paralysis, and speech disorders.
Germans Provide Big Boost for Sequencing Often Ignored Organisms
Grant will help sequence thousands of plants, insects, and fungi
Who Should Fund Science?
Government funding is a relatively recent phenomenon, but scientific progress is not.
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