Nature Index 2017 United States

With the most to lose from looming federal funding cuts, California's researchers take a stand.

With government funding plummeting, researchers in the United States need to find alternative sources.

National initiatives that track people, rather than papers, will lead to better science in the United States.

Initiatives are in place to keep early-career investigators in the biomedical system, but more support is needed.

Key investments in people and infrastructure have helped Illinois become a major player in chemistry.

The committed team behind LIGO's detection of gravitational waves is contending with ongoing technical challenges of a mighty big laboratory.

Undergraduate research programmes are expensive, and the benefits can be hard to measure.

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