Britain to Launch ‘High Risk, High Reward’ Science Agency

Britain to Launch ‘High Risk, High Reward’ Science Agency
Robot uses a hand-held power tool during the cutting task of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge at the Fairplex in Pomona, Calif., on June 6, 2015. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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The UK is to launch a new “high risk, high reward” agency to quickly identify cutting-edge science and technology research, it was revealed on Friday.

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will allow world-leading scientists the freedom to find and back “ground-breaking discoveries that could transform people’s lives for the better,” the government said in a media release.