Important: New NBER paper shows that federal R&D funding, as James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ says, "even more valuable than Washington thinks." Matt Hourihan underlines need for federal agencies to "better incorporate" this evidence into their own projections and plans Robert D. Atkinson

Morgan Stanley estimates that over half of total global robot production is in China.

Congratulations to Omar Yaghi UC Berkeley who just received the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry! His research supported by DOE Office of Science advanced the tech of metal-organic frameworks. These structures can be used for storing valuable gases, catalyzing reactions & harvesting water.

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth nature.com/articles/d4158…

How to Save NASA Science: A retrospective on the second 2025 Day of Action planetary.org/articles/secon… via Planetary Society

Great piece from The New York Times doc milli 🧚🏽 on the nature of basic science | Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science nytimes.com/2025/10/09/sci…

Roughly 4,000 NASA employees — over 20% of the agency — have left in the past six months. Here's a look inside NASA's brain drain. ⬇️ planetary.org/articles/4000-…

The Senate is set to leave for the week tomorrow. After talking to folks for past 24 hours: They are nowhere on ending the shutdown Efforts to put together a negotiating group aren't catching on, lawmakers not really feeling much heat to get out of this and both parties think

There’s been a burst of debate around viewpoint diversity (an always controversial topic) in our pages and elsewhere. Will thread and describe the key arguments below…

April 2025: "DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency" thebulletin.org/2025/04/doges-… October 2025: "Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday" edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/pol…

Today we're announcing a six-year bipartisan effort expand American capacity and competitiveness by transforming how our government operates. It's called the Recoding America Fund, and you can read more about it below.

New post from CSIS highlights the value of public R&D in the AI race. csis.org/blogs/innovati…

I've added Chinese and English versions of the new 15th Five-Year Plan Recommendations and Xi Jinping's Explanation to this database of Chinese official documents chinadocs.notion.site

New in PNAS today with Renli Wu (Northwestern) and Christopher Esposito (UCLA Anderson): China is on track to match the US in scientific leadership by 2027-28. We analyzed 6 million papers to understand who actually leads international research teams. The findings have major

This is actually a lot funnier when you realize the Patriarch is also from Chicago and he's totally trolling the Pope.

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs Editorial nature this week And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world nature.com/articles/d4158… nature.com/articles/d4158…

So we are on the verge of trading the most powerful technology ever invented by humans in exchange for… beans.

Alexis Ohanian 🗽 Boom Supersonic I think some context is important...it was a 3+ hour interview and this is a 39-second clip... plus I feel overdue for one of my long posts. As for X-59 specifically, I am glad they had a safe and successful first flight. I would like to see even more X-planes funded through

Read EFIF’s breakdown of the DOE award cancellations to better understand what industries and states will be impacted⬇️ efifoundation.org/topics/innovat…

In recent weeks, copies of an intriguing policy document have started to spread among space lobbyists on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The plan bears the title “Athena." Why is it appearing now? arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/…