Proposed updates to national-security regulations would restrict collaboration with foreign scientists and industry.
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16 June 2015
This story originally stated that all unclassified information is considered to be in the public domain; it should instead have said that information developed through fundamental research is considered to be in the public domain. The text has been updated.
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Witze, A. US ‘export rules’ threaten research. Nature 522, 266–267 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/522266a
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