UK science funding drops below 0.5% of GDP
UK investment in publicly funded research fell to less than 0.5% of GDP 2012. That’s less than any G8 country has invested in R&D in the last 20 years.
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Apple’s annual profits could pay for fusion
Apple’s record-breaking profits this week are enough that the tech giant could single-handedly afford to develop nuclear fusion, every year.
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How much would it cost to go to Venus?
We’ve produced an infographic in collaboration with the EnVision mission to Venus, proposed for ESA’s 2025 launch slot, to put the project into perspective.
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Autumn Statement 2014 continues the decline in science funding
Despite reiterating that science is his ‘personal priority’, the Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement nonetheless had little good news for science.
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Rosetta infographic translations
Our infographic on the cost of the Rosetta mission, now in your language! Čeština, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Magyar, Polski, Suomi, and more!
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How much does it cost to land on a comet?
On 12th November 2014, the space probe Rosetta’s lander Philae landed on a comet. We’ve crunched the numbers to find the cost of making spaceflight history.
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Ice buckets, research and the cost of disease
The Ice Bucket Challenge has led to a focus on what we spend on research and care for diseases. How does that really stack up against what kills us?
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Letter from David Willetts: Auditing science spending
We wrote to David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, about the lack of official data on public-funded science in the UK.
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A #nomakeupselfie makes up a big part of your cancer research funding
The #nomakeupselfie trend has been great news for Cancer Research UK—and also provides a topical way to put our spending on medical research into context.
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Research is Great, but investment is declining
BIS says that the UK is an international bastion of highly efficient science, but new ONS statistics find that UK investment in research fell in 2011–12.