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Put your lab in a different class

In many countries, students are turning away from the hard sciences. Can initiatives that give young people hands-on experience of research help to lure them back? Sally Goodman goes back to school.

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Goodman, S. Put your lab in a different class. Nature 420, 12–14 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/420012a

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