California sucks up the most federal dollars for scientific research. Naturally, scientists in smaller states feel cheated, reports the magazine The Scientist.
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"In many ways we're treated as Third World states," says a university official in Alabama. So 16 of these states have banded together to demand a heftier share of the U.S. scientific piggy bank. The 16 states are located in the less urbanized regions - the South, Midwest, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest and Great Plains.