A Lifeline for Discovery: Why Europe is Luring American Researchers and Scientists

As U.S. research budgets are caught in political crosshairs, Europe’s grants and streamlined visas keep essential science moving forward

From my home office in Salzburg, the Alps rise like a jagged stone curtain, just a few miles south of the city. I don’t see a horizon from this view. What’s on the other side…is often a mystery.

In the United States, where landscapes taper more predictably toward coastline, American scientists, researchers, and academics do their best to understand what’…