Funding

Despite crowdfunding flop, Swedish study to proceed

Senate axes ITER fusion project to grow other DOE research programs; House flat-lines them to keep ITER

Plenty of hurdles remain, however

Legislators take first step in altering the president’s 2017 budget request

Senate would cancel ITER spending, House would scale back clean energy funding

Frustrated with Congress, White House takes action

Representative John Culberson (R–TX) says agency should have flexibility to pursue “most promising” science

Researchers anticipate largesse, but new 5-year plan still opaque

Central government’s proposed budget boost is too little to repair crumbling infrastructure, observers contend

Agency no longer devoting fixed portion of its budget to the disease

Republicans oppose president’s attempt to sidestep caps in budget agreement

NIH leads the pack as Congress hikes basic research at several agencies

Competition wants to “get to the bottom of the ocean”

Agencywill immediately shift $65 million from low priority studies

Strategy for 2020 aims to increase investment to €5 billion per year

Questions surround the creation of the State Research Agency