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Australia should take a lesson from its Asia–Pacific neighbours before it undermines its research and higher education infrastructure by slashing budgets for its universities and cutting incentives for industrial research.
Today's special — product review offers problem solving software, information about nanotechnology funding, a diode-pumped solid-state laser and circuit simulation software.
