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The US government is converging on a long-awaited set of rules designed to protect American science from theft by foreign spies. A series of announcements this year describe steps that US universities and researchers must take when reporting foreign financing and collaborations to US science funders.

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Nature 592, 501 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00901-7

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  • Update 06 April 2021: This story was updated to include comments from the OSTP.

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