As U.S. President Donald Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, restricts what can be studied and pushes out immigrants, rival nations are hoping to pick up the talent that has been cast aside or become disenchanted, reported The New York Times on Wednesday.
Of 1,600 people who responded to a March poll in the journal Nature, many of them Ph.D. or postdoctoral students in the United States, three out of four said they were considering leaving the country because of the Trump administration's policies.