It's like the Manchurian Candidate of low budget science fiction".
The pleasure of getting work on a big-budget science fiction movie, as Jared Harris did on "Lost in Space".
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.
It looks like a scene from a low budget science fiction series.
Doing low-budget science means taking risks, but that is part of its value.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), normally loath to back big-budget science projects, is breaking with tradition and offering $11 million to help sequence the cow.
"We're pleased to see that in an era of flat budgets, science is holding its own," says Chris McEntee, executive director of the American Geophysical Union in Washington, D.C.
So are there tools and techniques that can make this easier online forecasting tools to look at budgets, science staff, run scenarios.
But Bush was mum on the subject that has much of the science community talking: the pain his budget is expected to inflict on nonbiomedical science budgets (Science, 23 February, p. 1463).
