From Einstein to GPS to the Back Seat – News from Journal World
The proposed Federal budget suggests that the United States may turn its back on the basic science approach to developing technological and economic advances that has served us so well for so long. For the first time in fifty years, we would not pursue the top-ranked project of the National Academy of Sciences, ceding the leading roles in science that the U.S. has discovered.
Throughout the 20th century, the United States led the scientific community, inventing more than its share of the science and technology on which the world depends. Basic science-driven research reveals the laws of Nature while enabling amazing technologies that allow us to do seemingly magical things: see inside the human body, navigate in a pea-soup fog, and solve problems long considered unsolvable. When applied research hits a wall, basic, curiosity-driven science provides a new insight that leapfrogs the barrier.
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