December 14, 2007
Big Opportunities in Small Science
A transformation is occurring that will have a major impact on how academic science is done and how scientists are trained. That transformation — driven by declining federal funds, as well as by the rising cost of technology and the need for costly, labor-intensive interdisciplinary approaches — is from small science to big science. It is concentrating resources in top-tier research universities, and academic scientists at other institutions are finding it harder to do
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