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Research spending dropped $4 billion dollars in 2011, and could continue to drop, according to a new report.
The United States government is concerned over the declining levels of state funding for public research universities, citing a threat to overall economic health.
As federal budgets tighten, the US government is getting serious about enforcing reporting and administrative rules that accompany academic grants.
The United Kingdom government has devoted £10 million towards the goal of making all of the research it funds open access by next spring.
The federal agency is shuffling around its programs to streamline management and promote international scientific collaboration.
Reduced support from the US National Library of Medicine threatens to shut down five popular biological databases.
The market for drugs that target rare diseases is expected to rival big pharma blockbusters in the coming decades.
Proposals from researchers receiving more than $1 million a year in NIH funding will be carefully picked over to avoid overlap with ongoing research.
A Bill of Rights amendment reaffirming the right to pray could have negative consequences for the teaching of evolution.
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