Tracking the Trump White House

Competing spending priorities in the House of Representative and Senate could push funding negotiations into December.

James Bridenstine, a member of Congress, has long pushed for the United States to return to the Moon.

Researchers were told to censor descriptions of projects funded by a Department of Energy laboratory.

Energy researcher Daniel Kammen faults US president’s positions on climate change and energy and his failure to condemn white supremacists.

Panel sought to help businesses and state and local governments prepare for the effects of global warming.

Competing spending priorities in the House of Representative and Senate could push funding negotiations into December.

James Bridenstine, a member of Congress, has long pushed for the United States to return to the Moon.

Researchers were told to censor descriptions of projects funded by a Department of Energy laboratory.

Energy researcher Daniel Kammen faults US president’s positions on climate change and energy and his failure to condemn white supremacists.

Panel sought to help businesses and state and local governments prepare for the effects of global warming.

Officials at the US Environmental Protection Agency are consulting global-warming sceptics as they weigh up a technical review.

Brenda Fitzgerald will be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Geneticist has led the biomedical research agency since 2009.

What the United States' departure from the historic pact means for efforts to fight global warming.

Rural and struggling areas have benefited from funding that is now at risk.

Critics say that changes to advisory groups at the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Interior could restrict or paralyze them.

Congress gives National Institutes of Health a big boost and avoids cuts to research agencies sought by Trump.

Nature reported from marches in cities including Sydney, Washington DC and Paris, as people took to the streets in support of science.

Nature asked members of the scientific community whether or not they plan to march on 22 April — and why.

Conservative academics face a growing tension between their politics and the liberal atmosphere on many US campuses.

Linguists, anthropologists and political scientists take to Capitol Hill to defend their research.

US president orders the Environmental Protection Agency to reverse limits on carbon emissions from power plants.

The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institutes of Health are big losers — but planetary science at NASA stands to gain.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt denies carbon dioxide’s impact on the climate, and promises deregulation.

Researchers are cutting short travel, ending collaborations and rethinking their US ties.

The ensuing damage to scientific collaborations puts the United States at risk, researchers say.

John Holdren worries that immigration restrictions could harm researchers’ ability to collaborate across borders.

Order barring citizens of seven countries from entering the United States has left many confused and afraid.

Concerns mount that the new US president will sideline science’s role in international relations.

Michael Eisen hopes a victory in 2018 will bring a new scientific voice to the US legislature.

Researchers at Women's March in Washington DC defend their work as US president takes office.

Climate sceptic William Happer and ardent critic of academia David Gelernter have met with the president.

The US president reiterated his promise to roll back climate regulations on his first day in office.

Comments about the new US president and the importance of science flowed under the #USofScience and #SciTrump hashtags.

President-elect Donald Trump’s team has asked Collins to remain in his job for an unknown period.

Trump’s nominee for energy secretary says that he will base decisions on ‘sound science’.

President-elect's picks to lead environment and health agencies testify before Congress.

But Rex Tillerson, Trump’s pick for secretary of state, tells senators that efforts to predict climate change are ‘very limited’.

A reproducibility guru, a former defence-research official and a controversial entrepreneur rumoured to be on list, along with current NIH leader and a congressman.

Researchers are reaching out to the US president-elect with science advice — and criticism.

Former Texas governor Rick Perry lacks the technical background of the agency's recent leaders.

ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson draws scepticism and scorn — but looks progressive compared with other Trump selections.

His plans for the job are a mystery, but past presidents have used their chief scientific aide in a number of ways.

Oklahoma attorney-general Scott Pruitt has sought to reverse federal limits on greenhouse-gas emissions and air pollution.

Economic woes wrought by globalization are only part of the cause.

When opinions are symbols of belonging, our brains work overtime to keep us believing, says Dan Kahan.

Nature's list of the key issues and appointments facing US government science agencies.

Tom Price, Republican congressman from Georgia, has a thin track-record on science and research issues.

Worries include job prospects, discrimination — and safety.

Climate-change and immigration policies raise alarm, but much of the incoming US president's agenda is simply unknown.

Most surveys did not predict Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.

Republicans sweep White House and US Congress, with uncertain implications for research.

Pared-back staff struggles to continue cybersecurity, climate-change and science-education efforts without direction from the Trump administration.

Justices overturn lower-court rulings on policy targeting people from six majority-Muslim countries.

Withdrawal from global pact may take almost four years — which could give the winner of the 2020 presidential race the final word.

Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to ShakeAlert puts the west coast at risk.

Future generations will fear, rather than fend for, the global environment.

If we can stomach it, a ‘renegotiation’ of the Paris Agreement could help us all, says Elliot Diringer.

As anti-science sentiment sweeps the world, it is vital to stop the suppression of firearms studies, argues David Hemenway.

Cutting the budget for applied research in foreign aid would make the United States less competitive.​

The US president’s approval of a controversial oil pipeline offers a disturbing glimpse of the future. But he will struggle to get things all his own way.

The Clean Water Rule is under threat — but it is grounded in science and should be strengthened, not repealed.

Boycotting US conferences will not help scientists from any country.

Psychology can moderate our response to unsavoury actions such as the US ban on immigrants, but we should not let our appetite for dissent diminish.

Scientists must fight back with the truth about the debunked link between vaccines and autism.

Scott Pruitt has consistently opposed attempts to reduce pollution.

If politicians can lie without condemnation, what are scientists to do? Kathleen Higgins offers some explanation.

It is crucial to fight discrimination in all its forms, but it is unhelpful to exclude conservative voices from debate.

Nine experts reflect on where researchers should direct their efforts during the next US administration.

The election of the new US president poses many questions, but the world must not lose faith in the value and the power of evidence.

If the Trump administration has questions on global warming, it should direct them to the national academy rather than setting up a spurious ‘red team–blue team’ debate.