1.0 link 227711 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-m-gentile/transformational-science_b_227711.html President Barack Obama has wisely made scientific research a federal priority in his early funding decisions, including $21.5 billion for research and development in the economic stimulus package and significantly increasing science funding in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2010. The challenge now is to maximize the potential for truly transformational research -- the kind that has fueled U.S. scientific and technological advances, as well as economic growth, in the past. Unfortunately, American scientific research is becoming more conservative,...

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