Lately, scientists, budget-conscious lawmakers and advocacy groups across the political spectrum have argued that these subsidies waste money, put lives at risk and make no sense in an era of changing climate and rising seas.
Dr. Palmer says the solutions include using better cameras and longer zoom lenses; hiring local scientists; budgeting more money; showing more patience; lowering expectations for blood, gore, and extreme close-ups; and embedding the photography in better and more biologically accurate stories.
He added: "@indycar @nascar give the engineers and scientists a budget and they'll find a fix.
For Dr. Riess and his colleagues, this turn of events is another example of a worrying trend in which American scientists, facing budget deficits and political gridlock, have had to pull back from or delay promising projects while teams based in Europe hunt down the long-sought Higgs boson or rocket scientists in China plan a Moon landing in 2025.
Although reducing funding to three government councils that provide grants to scientists, the budget includes $1.62 billion over 2 years to retrofit aging academic buildings as part of a $10 billion investment in all manner of infrastructure.
In those meetings NASA and Pentagon officials, scientists and engineers, budget analysts and others decided that sending astronauts to the Moon by the end of the sixties was the country's best shot at overcoming the Soviet post-Sputnik command of the orbital front in the cold war.
Italy can ill afford the slashed budget, scientists say.
Italian scientists protest announced budget cuts through scientific lectures in public squares.
Indian scientists applaud the budget, noting that the global financial crisis could have given the government reason to scale back programs.
But although "Chinese scientists welcome the budget boost for science," they remain cautious, noting that "the real impact remains in the as-yet unknown details".
Chinese scientists welcome the budget boost for science, but note that the real impact remains in the as-yet unknown details. "The government always has big plans, but it's an uncertain time for the economy so we have to watch what happens next.
