The National Science Foundation (NSF) is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about US$7.0 billion (fiscal year 2012) the NSF funds approximately 20% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States’ colleges and universities.
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