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A Japanese laboratory illustrates the benefits of autonomy (and the responsibility that goes with it) and budgetary predictability in creating a framework for productive research.
The idea that physics has almost been worked out as a field for interesting investigations is widely current but mistaken. There is as much left to do as has been done.