US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and economic growth. Since 20 January, US science has been upended by severe cutbacks from the administration of US President Donald Trump. A series of dramatic reductions in grants and budgets — including the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) slashing reimbursements of indirect research costs to universities from around 50% to 15% — and deep cuts ...