U.S. Debt Deal Could Dramatically Slash Science Funding in 2013

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine Scalpel or guillotine? Those are the possible fates in store for US science funding after Congress and the White House reached a deal to cut federal spending and raise the nation's self-imposed debt limit before a 2 August deadline. The product of tumultuous negotiations, the deal largely spares science in the short term but puts a day of reckoning on the horizon: 2 January 2013.

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U.S. Debt Deal Could Dramatically Slash Science Funding in 2013