Charting The Winners And Losers In Obama’s Science Budget

From Wired Science:

President Obama’s administration revealed its new budget Monday, and it increases funding for nearly all areas of science.

The largest raise went to the National Institutes of Health, which added $1 billion dollars to an already hefty budget. With the boost, the NIH would receive $32.1 billion in total funding. Only the Centers for Disease Control would receive less money than last year, although the cut is small. NASA, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and the National Science Foundation, as well as smaller research efforts at the National Institute for Standards and Technology and Department of Agriculture, would also get bumps.

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Another Sign That America's Science Position In The World Is Changing

U.S. Keeps Science Lead, But Other Countries Gain -- Wall Street Journal

The U.S. remains the world's science and technology leader, but other countries are gaining ground, the National Science Board said Friday in its biennial report on science and engineering.

The U.S. accounted for nearly a third of $1.1 trillion spent on research and development globally in 2007, minted more science and engineering doctorates than any other country, and led the world in innovative activity. Efforts by China and other developing Asian countries to boost their science and engineering capabilities are bearing fruit, however, and the gap between them and the U.S., though still wide, is narrowing.

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More News On America's Declining Role In Science

Worrisome Trends Show Eroding U.S. Competitive Advantage in World Science and Engineering Environment -- Science Daily
New Science "Indicators" Data From NSF Captures China's Rise -- Science Insider
Asia Ascending in Science and Engineering -- Physorg
U.S. Scientific Inventory Shows Asia, EU Gaining in R&D Status -- BioWorld
Is America competing? -- The Scientist

US Plans For Science Outreach To Muslim World

From Nature:

White House to send scientists as envoys.

The administration of US President Barack Obama is ramping up plans to develop scientific and technological partnerships with Muslim-majority countries.

The move follows a June speech by Obama at Cairo University in Egypt, when he promised to appoint regional science envoys, launch a fund to support technological development and open centres of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and southeast Asia. So far, the science-envoy plan is closest to getting off the ground, say White House officials, who see it as part of a broader drive to improve relations with the Islamic world.

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