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Published online 8 July 2009 | Nature 460, 171-172 (2009) | doi:10.1038/460171a

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Science education: Reading, writing and nanofabrication

With its electron microscope, genetic sequencing machines and observatory, the Yokohama Science Frontier High School is equipped like no other. Will future scientists be inspired there, asks David Cyranoski.

The timetable for 15-year-old students at Yokohama Science Frontier High School (YSFH) can be busy. Before break, they might grow single-layer carbon nanotubes in argon gas and evaluate them with micro-Raman spectroscopy.

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