A new report shows that the emigration of scientists from the UK is in part balanced by immigration, and that in recent years it has been more modest in scale than is often supposed. But the matter is complicated.
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Collins, P., Radda, G., Silverleaf, J. et al. Flows of researchers to and from the UK. Nature 328, 27–28 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/328027a0
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