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Scientists Look To The Internet To Raise Research Funds

by Joe Palca, NPR
February 15, 2013

Scientists are learning what artists have already figured out: there's money out there. Specifically, there's money among the users of the Internet, and they are willing to donate it for what they consider to be good causes.

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