A new Nature poll found 75% of scientists are considering leaving the United States following the disruptions prompted by President Trump.

Europe and Canada were among the top choices for relocation. The trend was particularly pronounced among early-career researchers.

John Ellis: “These are terrifying numbers, if true. Even if only 35% of the best young scientific minds in the United States are seriously considering living and working elsewhere, the numbers are still terrifying. Brain drain is always a disaster. Nothing good comes from it. The downside is enormous. And the more that leave, the more will follow.”

Washington Post: Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.

“Europe is investing millions in a flurry of newly announced academic programs, in an energetic effort to lure top American scientists across the Atlantic at the same time President Donald Trump casts many U.S. research efforts into turmoil with funding cuts and executive edicts,” the Washington Post reports.

“The federal agency that produces weather forecasts and leads research on climate and the oceans has canceled leases for research centers and slashed its staff to ‘devastating’ effect,” The Verge reports.

“Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration laid off hundreds of probationary employees, who make up roughly 10 percent of its workforce. The agency has plans to lay off around 50 percent of its staff in total.”

“NASA is a methodical institution that plans its missions years or even decades in advance, enjoys a famously loyal workforce and carries out its tasks with the kind of precision required to hurl humans into orbit, drive rovers on Mars or build telescopes that can see nearly to the dawn of time,” the Washington Post reports.

“But at the moment, NASA employees and contractors don’t know what tomorrow will bring — or even if they’ll have jobs. With President Donald Trump’s return to power and the billionaire space entrepreneur Elon Musk patrolling government agencies, the world’s premier space agency has entered a murky realm.”

“If you have been involved in good science, you have nothing to worry about.”

— Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., quoted by the Daily Beast, on the coming staff purge at health agencies.

“In a Friday night move that quickly drew howls of protest from the U.S. biomedical research community, President Donald Trump’s administration today announced it is immediately reducing by at least half the so-called indirect cost payments that the National Institutes of Health makes to universities, hospitals, and research institutes to help cover facilities and administrative costs,” Science reports.

Washington Post: NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately.

New York Times: Deep cuts to medical research funds could hobble university budgets.

NASA says a “city-killer” asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, Live Science reports.

“While the National Institutes of Health employs 20,000-plus workers and spans 27 institutes and centers, the agency’s main job is to fund researchers working outside its walls,” Stat reports.

“But an unprecedented disruption of grant review panel meetings is provoking panic across the world of academic science that this key piece of the agency’s mission will be upended.”

Said one doctor: “Everything appears to have just ground to a halt.”

“Trump confidant Elon Musk wants NASA to drop its ambitious plans to return to the moon and instead head straight to Mars. Congress is ready to put up a fight,” Politico reports.

“Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who control NASA’s purse strings, want Americans to return to the lunar surface in 2027 — and they’re not willing to abandon that mission despite Musk’s obsession with skipping the moon for Mars.”

“The division sets up a potential showdown with Republican policymakers and the influential Trump ally over one of the most consequential space policy decisions this century.”

“SpaceX has launched Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on its fifth test flight,” CNN reports.

“For the first time, the company attempted and succeeded in bringing back and safely land the rocket’s booster, called Super Heavy, which is taller than a 20-story building.”

“Two astronauts parked at the International Space Station since early June will return with SpaceX instead of on the Boeing vehicle that brought them there,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced the decision at a briefing on Saturday, which means astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will remain in orbit until early next year, when a SpaceX craft is scheduled to return with them on board.”

“The decision is a setback for Boeing, which has spent years developing the Starliner vehicle that transported the astronauts to the space station on June 6. During its flight to the station, several thrusters temporarily failed and engineers identified additional helium leaks within its propulsion system.”

“The two astronauts whose weeklong mission aboard the International Space Station is now stretching into its second month could be left in orbit until next winter,” Axios reports.

“NASA astronauts Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams have been in limbo after docking with the ISS on June 6 as part of the Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight.”

“Technical issues prevented them from returning home as scheduled aboard Starliner.”

The two astronauts aboard the first human flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft remain stuck indefinitely at the International Space Station while engineers try to figure out technical problems, the Washington Post reports.

The spacecraft and its crew were scheduled to return after eight days, on June 18. But yesterday NASA announced an indefinite postponement until sometime in July.

Donald Trump falsely claimed that magnets don’t work if they get wet, Newsweek reports.

Said Trump: “Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.”

A new Pew Research poll finds 57% of Americans say science has had a mostly positive effect on society.

This share is down 8 percentage points since November 2021 and down 16 points since before the start of the coronavirus outbreak.

“A brown-and-white capsule that spent the last seven years swooping through the solar system — and sojourning at an asteroid — has finally come home,” the New York Times reports.

“And it has brought a cosmic souvenir: a cache of space rock that scientists are hungry to get their hands on.”

Politico: “The Republican party’s reputation as anti-science has hurt it badly in places where health care is a leading employer.”