"NSF funds basic science research — the kinds of questions sparked by curiosity that may have no clear application and little interest from corporations or philanthropies, but that can deepen our understanding of nature, spawn new industries and change the world. An NSF-funded observatory was the first to detect ripples in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein. NSF’s basic research into circuits and transistors helped advance the chips that power modern technology. Some 268 Nobel laureates have received funding from the agency...
The journal Science reported that Trump’s draft budget proposal, which has not yet been submitted to Congress, would cut 55 percent of the NSF budget. Multiple people familiar with the agency’s operations who shared information on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation believe that to be plausible but could not confirm the number."
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