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Science education: Reading, writing and nanofabrication

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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. After break, there are polymerase chain reactions (PCR) to be done. Things don't slow down after class, when students stick around in the observatory to glimpse star clusters or Saturn's rings from the school observatory. The equipment list at Japan's first dedicated science high school, which began classes in April, could rival a small research institute.

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