"budget science" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to scientific research or experiments that are constrained by a budget. For example, "The college has been conducting budget science experiments to explore the effect of gravity on different objects."
It's like the Manchurian Candidate of low budget science fiction".
It looks like a scene from a low budget science fiction series.
Although NSF has not released details of its budget, Science has learned that the agency gets a green light to start two projects at the top of its wish list, the Alaska Region Research Vessel and the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has recently raised ethics questions about Schwartz's management practices, including his consulting work for law firms, his use of guest researchers from Duke, and cost overruns in his laboratory budget (Science, 6 July, p. 26).
NSF: The 5% hike for NSF, to $5.58 billion, is a far cry from the 15% annual rise that legislators had promised last year as part of a 5-year doubling of NSF's budget (Science, 22 November 2002, p. 1537).
First, you indicate which issues you care about the most by distributing 20 points among 16 different topics (Taxes and Budget, Science, Civil Liberties and Domestic Security, Iraq and Foreign Policy, Internet and Media, Trade and Economics, Environment and Energy, Gun Control, etc).
The pleasure of getting work on a big-budget science fiction movie, as Jared Harris did on "Lost in Space".
Logan's Run turned out to be the last of the studio-inspired attempts to film big-budget science fiction without either knowledge of or love for the genre.
Called "Terra Nova," it is a high-budget, science fiction fantasy about a family from the future transported to the prehistoric past, to be produced in partnership with both Steven Spielberg and Aaron Kaplan, the former William Morris television agent.
By night, prospects prowled the downtown restaurants, still wearing their numbered Under Armour warm-ups, looking like clones from a low-budget science fiction movie, trying to dine casually while bloggers at the bar critiqued their menu choices.
Ramsay is also planning an ambitious (though low-budget) science fiction-themed adaptation of Moby-Dick, though it must be said the Portman project looks like it may stand a better chance of reaching cinemas.
