Knowledge of how science is consumed in public domains is essential for understanding the role of science in human society. In this talk, I will focus on two related but distinct studies to help us understand the role and impact of science outside science – in the halls of government, public perceptions, marketplace applications, and more. In particular, we examine public use and public funding of science by linking tens of millions of scientific publications from all scientific fields to their upstream funding support and downstream public uses across three public domains—government documents, news media, and marketplace invention. We find that different public domains draw from various scientific fields in specialized ways, showing diverse patterns of use. Yet, amidst these differences, we find two important forms of alignment. First, we find universal alignment between what the public consumes and what is highly impactful within science. Second, a field’s public funding is strikingly aligned with the field’s collective public use. Overall, public uses of science present a rich landscape of specialized consumption, yet, collectively, science and society interface with remarkable alignment between scientific use, public use, and funding.