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The article reports on the science funding in Great Britain. This paper gives observation on the changing landscapes in the funding that the government provides. Research councils may be pressured to deliver results as the government now seeks for results to the long and heavily invested science researches. Scientists had enjoyed tremendous funding in the past decade and the government wants to see results as indicated by the council documents implying economic competitiveness and social impacts.

The article presents several new briefs related to various topics on scientific research. According to the Osaka University's ethics committee, researcher Akio Sugino acted alone in manipulating data of a research papers in the "Journal of Biological Chemistry." Entrepreneur Richard Branson has invested $3 billion to climate-change initiatives. The committee of the U.S. Institute of Medicine has urged the Food and Drug Administration to give more funding to ensure drug safety.