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How a historic funding boom might transform the US National Science Foundation

Proposed budget increases for the research funding agency could bolster US innovation efforts, but some worry this will change the agency’s mission.
  1. Ariana Remmel
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US officials are discussing whether the National Science Foundation (NSF) — which funds about 25% of all basic academic research in the country — should get a historic budget boost, potentially changing the US science landscape. During congressional hearings last week, legislators evaluated proposals that would increase the agency’s funding by as much as US$100 billion over about five years. Any of these, if passed, would represent one of the largest increases for the NSF since it launched nearly 70 years ago.

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Nature 593, 19-20 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01076-x

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