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For decades, Western scientists and policymakers dismissed China’s research boom as a matter of quantity over quality. Those days are over. In 2024, China achieved what seemed impossible just a few years ago, overtaking the United States in the number of publications appearing in the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.
The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” developed by the Trump administration and sent to nine universities on 1 October, proposes that the institutions agree to a series of criteria in exchange for preferential treatment in funding decisions. As of 20 October, various schools have responded to Trump’s offer.
A new study finds over half the drugs approved this century cite federally funded research in their patents.
In exchange for continued taxpayer funding, American universities must better explain how research promotes the well-being and security of the public, according to two of the country’s top leaders in science policy.
Between January 20th and August 31st 2025, there have been 479 attacks on science, which undermine, co-opt, or blatantly ignore science in the federal government. These attacks follow the plan laid out in Project 2025.
European governments are taking steps to break their dependence on critical scientific data the United States historically made freely available to the world, and are ramping up their own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes
The country is lagging behind the EU and China as a reliable research partner. But this can be fixed.
