Physicists, chemists and mathematicians in the United Kingdom are furious about funding reforms that they say threaten blue-skies research.
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Bhattacharya, A. Science funding: Duel to the death. Nature 488, 20–22 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/488020a
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