Us FACES First Major Brain Drain in 80 Years | Scientists flee due to Trump’s Research Cuts | Migration of scientists for the first time in 80 years from America: Trump cut research funding; 75% looking for opportunity in Europe and Asia

America has been considered a paradise of global scientific talent for decades. But now it is losing its glow. For the first time in 80 years, the country is facing such a ‘brain drain’.

This is not only challenging his global status, but the engine of innovation is also shocking.

A recent survey conducted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science revealed that 75% of scientists were leaving the US and looking for new land in Europe and Asia, or migrated.

The rigorous policies of US President Donald Trump such as cuts in research funding, ban on migrant students and attacks on educational freedom are the major reasons behind this brain drain.

Funding cuts broken the backbone of research

The Trump administration has cut the Grants of the National Institutes of Health by 40% for 2026. Apart from this, the National Science Foundation has asked to cancel a grant of 13 thousand crore rupees. Funding cuts are afraid of scientists to shut down projects.

As of 2015, more than 60 thousand foreign researchers used to come to America every year. At the same time, in 2024 this number had come down to 23,000. According to the report, this figure is going to decrease less than 15 thousand this year.

Exodus gave rise to new competition globally

Scientists working in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Climate Science, Genetics and Neuroscience are now offering various offers to attract them to themselves. It has given rise to a new competition globally.

The European Union has announced to invest five thousand crore euros in three years to make Europe attractive to researchers.

France’s Marsel University has launched a safe place for science program to give shelter to scientists. Canada has invested 200 crores to attract scientists.

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University is offering American researchers. Germany has also planned to attract them.

Americans won more than 400 Nobel, one third of these migrants

The US has long been the leader of research and development (R&D). In the 1960s, the annual budget of the federal government is Rs five lakh crore. Which was 13 lakh crores in 2024.

The figure reached 77 lakh crores in 2024 in collaboration with the private sector. This investment won more than 400 Nobel Prizes to the US, of which more than one-third of the migrants won.