7 stories tagged science-policy, newest first.
116 points by mushstory | 98 comments
Yomiuri Shimbun news article reporting that China surpassed the U.S. as the world's top R&D spender in 2024, citing Japanese science ministry data.
795 points by presspot | 942 comments
Scientific American feature by Adam Rogers examining how the compact between U.S. science and politics broke down, leaving American science in chaos.
356 points by skullone | 177 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that President Trump fired the National Science Foundation's oversight board, the National Science Board.
362 points by j_maffe | 270 comments
Science magazine news article reporting the U.S. federal government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhD employees since Trump took office; page shows Cloudflare check.
514 points by magicalist | 676 comments
Science magazine ScienceInsider report that the National Science Foundation is abolishing its 37 divisions in response to presidential directives on research funding.
420 points by groseje | 407 comments
Steve Blank blog post on how WWII-era science advisors and policy choices made the U.S. a science and engineering superpower while Britain fell behind.
861 points by rrock | 1303 comments
Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog post on Science.org about current events and turmoil inside the NIH and NSF, dated February 4, 2025.