With the upcoming Oct. 5 elections, the country has a new opportunity to strengthen scientific research as a foundation for addressing today’s challenges and bolstering its sovereignty.
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A new White House science strategy, laid out in a report titled Science: A New Golden Age, challenges an 80-year-old model that made the US the global scientific leader.
What do US researchers make of all the Trump administration science-related policy changes? A survey of 280 academic scientists asked them.
The Trump administration fired the entire board that oversees the National Science Foundation, raising an age-old question about the separation of science and state.
Scientific innovation has been driving US economic growth for decades. Losing that edge means losing access to the technologies and brainpower that come with it.
A program cut has Australian astronomers up in arms – but it points at much bigger problems with national research funding.
When the Trump administration took aim at higher education and the scientific research enterprise, a university dean had to figure out on the fly how to support scientists and their work at his school.
The Trump administration is rewriting the 80-year-old American social contract for science research.
Academic freedom grew strongly after World War II, with greater university funding, protections and autonomy, yet global data now shows a decline.
The Trump administration is not just reforming the US research system – it is trying to remake it.
As the US cuts science funding and international cooperation, Australia and other countries see a chance to capitalise on this American brain drain.
The first Trump administration also used words like ‘transparency,’ ‘reproducibility’ and ‘uncertainty’ − to try to block regulators from using important health studies when writing pollution rules.
From HIV treatments to school desegregation, research into topics now considered DEIA have benefited Americans throughout history.
When asked to name a living scientist from their own country, more than half of the respondents in both countries did not reply.
The jury’s out on whether the US is still at the top of global science. Proposed cuts to major agencies could mean completely ceding that title.
Headed by the president’s science adviser, OSTP serves as a one-stop shop for everything science and innovation inside the White House.
The former prime minister and his allies have dodged questions and passed the buck in an inquiry that is meant to give the public confidence that lessons will be learned for the future.
Decades ago, the international community codified science as a cultural right and protected expression of human creativity. Reaffirming science’s value can help it better serve humanity.
Science works better when barriers to collaboration are removed, say experts.
Industry leaders, scientists and policymakers may see AI’s technical potential, but societies have trouble adapting to revolutionary advances without broad public participation.
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Secretary for Science Policy at the Australian Academy of Science, and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UNSW
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Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
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Fellow in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
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Professorial fellow, Flinders University; Australian National University
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Professor of Experimental Physics and Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge
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Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
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Chair, The Conversation Media Group
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Laureate Professor Emeritus, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Emeritus professor, Australian National University
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Professor of Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
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Research manager, Centre for Systems Genomics, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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President of the Australian Academy of Science, Laureate Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary associate professor of economy and society, Macquarie University
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Astrophysicist and Assistant Professor in Science Education, Trinity College Dublin