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US science faces big chill

Nature volume 469, pages 9–10 (2011)Cite this article

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Spending cuts and political battles loom on the horizon.

"We came here to do a job. We got much of it done." So said Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the US House of Representatives, at a press briefing on 22 December 2010. For US researchers, the occasion was significant. Pelosi, standing alongside Bart Gordon, outgoing chairman of the science and technology committee (see page 10), had just signed a bill reauthorizing America COMPETES, the act that includes funding increases for basic research and educational programmes via the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other agencies.

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Semeniuk, I., Wadman, M., Samuel Reich, E. et al. US science faces big chill. Nature 469, 9–10 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469009a

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