What are the challenges of researchers in the US? (500 words)

- The concession of research projects mainly depends on the funding /grants.
- This leads to continually facing a situation of zero-sum game where only one project can get approved and the rest remain with no funds.
- The pressure facing the scholars to publish increasingly and more in the best journals is yet another problem.
- This is a major challenge in recruiting decent research talents and retaining them.
- The congesting procedures and over-loading regulations.
- An absence/low level of community understanding/trust in science among the public
- Political influences and ideological disbelief towards some research areas.

Provide details, for example, of two or three challenges - with examples, data or any other point of illustration. Explain what impact these challenges have and provide possible solutions if available.