Abstract
The U.S. science community was both surprised and delighted by a new federal funding law that delivers average funding increases of over 10% for science across the U.S. government. After a year of fighting for even the slightest acknowledgment for research, the fiscal 2018 law will bring R&D spending to $176.8 billion, its highest level ever when adjusted for inflation, and up 12.8% from 2017, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s R&D Budget & Policy Program, which tracks federal science spending. “We are grateful for the increases in our key R&D science agencies as this puts them on a predictable and sustainable course that has been sorely lacking,” says ACS spokesperson Glenn Ruskin. “Federal R&D investment had sunk to 0.9% of U.S. gross domestic product, when it should more appropriately be closer to 4%.” ACS publishes C&EN. Among the big winners are the National Institutes of
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