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National Science Foundation
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 24% of all federally supported
basic research
conducted by the
United States' colleges and universities
. In some fields, such as
mathematics
,
computer science
,
economics
and the
social sciences
, the NSF is the major source of federal backing.
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