Oil revenues have bought Saudi Arabia many of the tools of science and technology. The challenge now is to build up a national science community that can apply them.
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Newmark, P. Science meets Islam in the Saudi desert. Nature 326, 346 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/326346a0
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