Dal sito The Panda's Thumb ecco le prospettive di tglio ai finanziamenti degli istituti di ricerca:

http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2009/02/science-gets-th.html

From the list of stimulus projects that are on the cutting block:

(http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/Collins-Nelson-Cuts/)

• NSF 100% cut ($1,402,000,000)
• NASA exploration 50% cut ($750,000,000)
• NOAA 34.94% cut ($427,000,000)
• NIST 37.91% cut ($218,000,000)
• DOE energy efficiency & renewable energy 38% cut ($1,000,000,000)
• DOE office of science 100% cut ($100,000,000)