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Although a majority of Americans generally favor stem-cell research, cloning gets far less support, a poll for ABC News and Beliefnet finds. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said it should be […]

A survey was conducted on the agreement of public on the issue of federal government funding to research that would use newly created stem cells obtained from human embryos. Results suggested that while 56 percent Americans agree that federal government should fund such research, 40 percent believe government should not fund such a research.

Three of the government's top science managers told Congress last week that they intend to fight for more money than is penciled into the president's long-term budget projections for their [...]

R&D budgets maybe under attack in Washington as politicians debate spending priorities, but two recent surveys show that the public's support for science and technology remains strong. At the same [...]

Many, many Americans share the view of a man in a focus group held recently in Columbus, Ohio, who said, 'I believe in supporting research because I believe in the [...]

Controversy over the $10-million earmarks in the 1994 US Pentagon research budget, favoring a Californian molecular design institute, led to the institution's discarding the project. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the favored recipient of the earmark, decided not to compete for the money for research programs following bitter response at the Office of Naval Research.

Research Coterie Meets At NAS to Assess Budget JUST how Congress will address the macroeconomic issues surrounding the Reagan Administration's fiscal year 1987 budget may not be resolved for months. [...]