{"id":27914,"date":"2025-05-16T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27914"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:24:14","slug":"nine-federally-funded-scientific-breakthroughs-that-changed-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27914","title":{"rendered":"Nine Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. is slashing funding for scientific research, after decades of deep investment. Here\u2019s some of what those taxpayer dollars created.<\/p>\n

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Science seldom works in straight lines. Sometimes it\u2019s \u201capplied\u201d to solve specific problems: Let\u2019s put people on the moon; we need a Covid vaccine. Much of the time it\u2019s \u201cbasic,\u201d aimed at understanding, say, cell division or the physics of cloud formation, with the hope that \u2014 somehow, someday \u2014 the knowledge will prove useful. Basic science is applied science that hasn\u2019t been applied yet.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the premise on which the United States, since World War II, has invested heavily in science. The government spends $200 billion annually on research and development, knowing that payoffs might be decades away; that figure would drop sharply<\/a> under President Trump\u2019s proposed 2026 budget. \u201cBasic research is the pacemaker of technological progress,\u201d Vannevar Bush, who laid out the postwar schema for government research support, wrote in a 1945 report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Look no further than Google, which got its start in 1994 with a $4 million federal grant to help build digital libraries; the company is now a $2 trillion verb.<\/p>\n

Here are nine more life-altering advances that government investment made possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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