KUALA LUMPUR — While researchers at universities and institutes in many Western countries fret about budget pressures, scientists in many Asian nations are translating huge investments in research and development into impressive gains in research output.
In a sign of its intention to pare spending to pay for the war on terrorism, the Bush administration has proposed substantial cuts in the Smithsonian Institution's budget, enraging scientists who said the reductions would effectively gut the institution's research capabilities.
The Austrian science minister attributed the decision to budget issues Austrian scientists, however, had thought the latest budget brought good news.
Among those hit hardest by the cuts to travel budgets are scientists, who often travel to academic conferences as part of their jobs.
In our continuing state of shrinking government operating budgets, crime scientists and crime analysts need to consider the interrelatedness of spatial and temporal shifts in crime patterns when creating, tracking, and handling crime hot spots.
In a letter to the Times Higher Education (THE), After years of flat budgets, U.S. scientists have been hoping for the federal government to boost their prospects in a rough economy.
These include the creation of a science venture capital fund with 10percentt of the science budget, run by scientists who have succeeded in high-risk, high-payoff research and venture capitalists who know how to recognize, support and evaluate ambitious but risky proposals.
But how will budget cuts affect scientists, research, and labs?
Too much budget for young scientists will lead them to do too many things and not focus.
It's far from obvious that Congress would favor dedicating a much larger portion of that budget to training scientists for nonresearch careers.
