Lawrence Berkeley National Lab scientists Edwin McMillan, left, and Ed Lofgren, stand atop the 7-foot-thick concrete shielding at the Bevatron, an early particle accelerator, in 1963.
(Credit: Berkeley Lab)

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, U.S. scientists have published more research, been cited more often by other scientists, earned more patents and even won more Nobel Prizes than any other nation.

All that scientific expertise has helped make the U.S. the most prosperous nation on Earth and led to longer and easier lives here and around the world.

Now, amid federal attacks on university research and the government agencies that fund it, America is on the verge of relinquishing its scientific dominance for the first time in eight decades.

Learn more about how we got here: Read the whole story from the UC Newsroom.

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