The Human Genome Project returned $65 for every $1 invested
Our infographic showing the huge economic return on the Human Genome Project, which sequenced every DNA letter in the human genetic code.
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Tell Them Science is Vital
Contact your MP and parliamentary candidates and Tell Them Science is Vital! Posters, a leaflet and handy graphics for social media by Scienceogram.
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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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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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New report: Legacy of the 2010 cash freeze
Science is Vital has released a new report, ‘Legacy of the 2010 science budget cash freeze’, showing the sobering effects on UK research.
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Get involved: new petition and survey
Science is Vital has launched a petition calling on government to increase science spending to 0.8% of GDP, and a survey on the effects of the cash freeze.
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UK science budget 2010–2015: what’s changed?
After yesterday’s Budget, we try to make sense of the UK science budget since 2010. Have George Osborne and the Coalition been cruel or kind to science?
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Science is Vital: funding cuts must be reversed
Today’s letter in the Telegraph by Science is Vital calls upon the government to increase its investment in UK science to 0.8% of GDP, in line with the G8.