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		</div><p>A vast majority of British scientists want to remain in the European Union, with only 12% backing Brexit, according to a poll conducted by the UK’s leading research journal.</p>
<p>Of the 907 active UK scientists contacted by Nature, 83% backed staying in the EU, 12% wanted to leave, and 5% were “unsure”.</p>
<p>When the poll only included the 666 researchers who said they definitely planned to take part in the June 23 referendum, 80% vowed to vote “in” and 14% “out”.</p>
<p>British scientists were more in favour of the UK being part of the EU than their continental colleagues.</p>
<p>The journal also surveyed 954 European scientists outside the UK, of whom 77% said the UK should remain part of the Union while 14% supported separation.</p>
<p>Most British researchers (78%) who knew how they would vote thought UK science would be harmed by Brexit and 9% believed it would benefit.</p>
<p>Nature solicited the responses via e-mail, social media, and a pop-up on its website.</p>
<p>Pro-European scientists point out that UK universities receive around 16% of their total research funding directly from the EU. Membership also allows scientists to move freely between member states and work with no restrictions, they claim.</p>
<p>Those in the Brexit camp, such as cancer scientist and 2015 general election Ukip candidate Professor Angus Dalgleish, are unhappy about EU regulation of science.</p>
<p>Mike Galsworthy, co-founder of the advocacy group Scientists For EU, says science is becoming an increasingly more important referendum talking point.</p>
<p>He told Nature: “Research and innovation are actually coming more into the debate. It’s going to get more heated around that issue.”</p>
<p>On March 10 The Times newspaper published a letter signed by more than 150 Cambridge University scientists, all Royal Society fellows, extolling the benefits to science of EU membership.</p>
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