Capacity is power

How capacity shapes who decides. Part 1 of a five-part series.

The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located on the highest plateau of Antarctica, is a U.S.-operated year-round station that facilitates research in astronomy, astrophysics, and climate change. (NOAA)

Power in global science governance is built into who can operate, measure, access systems, and persist. This series examines those dynamics in five part…