UK science gets £600 million

BBC : George Osborne, the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer, announced a £600 million ($966 million) increase for science research, to be spent over the next three years. In a speech to the Royal Society on 9 November, Osborne focused on eight key areas to support: “big data” computing, synthetic biology, regenerative medicine, agricultural science, energy storage, advanced materials, robotics, and space. The new investment, said Royal Society president Paul Nurse, “will hopefully help ensure that our world-leading scientists have world-leading facilities with which to work.”