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Tip: When you read articles that says "researchers might have..." or "researchers get closer to...", read them as follows: These folks ran out of their funding
by sytelus 8y ago
Tip: When you read articles that says "researchers might have..." or "researchers get closer to...", read them as follows:
These folks ran out of their funding and need to renew their grants. For that purpose here's their progress report and no, tech is still quite far away. Watch out for same article title next year same time.
To be clear, there is nothing wrong with this. Some progress takes time and funders just need to know that folks are working hard at it.
- OscarCunningham 8y agoI think it has more to do with the way that researchers describe their projects to journalists. Whatever you're working on is to complicated to explain properly, but you can at least say what it might eventually be useful for. So you tell that to the journalist, and (if they are good) the journalist publishes "A step towards X" (if they're a bad journalist you'll see "Scientists discover X").