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Shunned by Trump, U.S. researchers wooed by world: report

US President Donald Trump arrives at the presidential terminal in Abu Dhabi on May 15, 2025. The United Arab Emirates is the third leg of Trump's visit to the region, which has already taken him to Saudi Arabia and Qatar. [AFP]

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.

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