Ooh,
I like! Just like how SE2's "money" got expanded to "construction points" and "research points", and SE3's "construction points" got expanded to "minerals", "organics", and "radioactives"!
Better yet, make the different research types
moddable! (Hey, I might divide sciences differently than you or Aaron does - you skipped Mathematics, for one!
And someone else might try to simplify things and combine Chemistry and Physics...)