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Nature 439, 517 (2 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439517a; Published online 1 February 2006
Senators seek cash to save US science
Geoff Brumfiel
The United States is losing its scientific edge and needs billions of extra dollars to rekindle innovation, according to a bipartisan group of US senators.After years of growth in areas such as biomedical research, funding at US science agencies is now mostly flat or decreasing, and critics charge that the nation's competitiveness will soon suffer.
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