With a flat-cash science budget, research organisations will find it increasingly hard to find the money to maintain their new equipment.
Innovate UK, which allocates about £600m of innovation support money, will see its funding cut in real terms (the "flat cash" settlement science received under the Coalition).
With less than a week to go before the U.K. budget announcement for 2009 10, prominent researchers are still pressuring the government to inject cash for science as part of a U.S.-style stimulus package.
The Chancellor's announcement of a continued flat cash settlement for science resource is immensely worrying – we've already suffered a substantial loss in the amount of science funding due to the freeze put in place in 2010.
A cash "freeze" for science is predicted for the CSR, which is a real terms cut of 8.9% over three years.
He was as proud of his head as he was of his hands, according to Olive, and soon after their marriage mortgaged it for fifty pounds to medical science, cash in advance and the goods to be delivered on his death.
Firstly, we'll need a more scientifically literate workforce, so let's put more cash into hiring science and maths teachers.
But with legislators concerned about the budget's impact on a trillion-dollar deficit, the $21 billion in stimulus cash awarded to science agencies in February is sure coming in handy.
Rival British film companies also tried to cash in with science fiction films of their own, including Satellite in the Sky, The Gamma People and Fire Maidens from Outer Space (all 1956).
In a book to be published next month, "Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs" (Analytics Press), Mr. Koomey sketches some of the applications in development or just around the corner.
