France, March 15 -- Aix-Marseille University in the south of France says it's ready to welcome American scientists, whose work has become untenable following the Trump administration's cuts in certain academic sectors. Around 40 researchers from top US universities have answered the call.

Aix-Marseille University launched the "Safe Space for Science" initative earlier this month, offering to take in American scientists fleeing the US after the Trump administration announced it would pull funding and putting restrictions on some areas of research.

Forty US scientists have "answered the call", the university said in a press release this week.

They include academics from Stanford, Yale, NASA, the National Institute for Health (NIH), and G...