White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower

Source: The Conversation Africa· H. Christopher Frey, Professor of Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University· August 7, 2026

A new White House science strategy, laid out in a report titled Science: A New Golden Age, challenges an 80-year-old model that made the US the global scientific leader.

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