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Fran Baganol is worried.

We are bleeding young scientists like crazy.

Baganol is an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado.

She works on the Juno mission studying Jupiter, and this year's been tough. Funding for fields like

hers has been facing a lot of uncertainty, and she says that's driving young scientists away.

They're saying, I can go to Europe because ESA is funding research projects, or I can go to Australia because they're running, or I can go to

China or Japan, India.

They're all working and expanding their science research.

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