But more than half of the research increase comes from transferring science-related programs to the foundation from other agencies where science budgets were cut accordingly, including the National Sea Grant Program from the Commerce Department, water-science research from the Interior Department and environmental education from the Environmental Protection Agency.
A communication window of 8 hours per day, as in the Pathfinder mission, is sufficient to transfer science data to ground.
If nothing reverses trends of attrition, they warned, there won't be enough mentors in the United States to educate the next generation in how to transfer science to the clinic or to probe clinical experiences for new biology.
But at the same time, it also reveals the deep-seated resistance within the Russian military and security establishment against abandoning Russia's "strategic" role in cultivating clients and lucrative contracts for transferring military science and technology.
Since the mid-1950s, the Chinese government has been transferring the science and technology of the developed world to China via methods that are legal, illegal and "extralegal" — because they are hidden from scrutiny — while keeping out the democratic system and liberal education that enabled such advances in the first place.
A significant challenge to the tremendous potential for the digital learning revolution is transferring authentic science investigations to digital learning environments.
Scientific careers were also explored at the Science Careers Workshop, which hosted scientists from the fields of technology transfer, science and technology policy, editing, K-12 teaching, and forensics.
During yesterday's kickoff meeting, the institutes shared their experiences in human resources, funding, technology transfer, science communication, and translational research.
