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The fight to keep Ukrainian science alive through a year of war

Researchers say science is bleeding in Ukraine — but they are determined to sustain their work with help from other nations.
  1. Aisling Irwin

    1. Aisling Irwin is freelance journalist based in Oxfordshire, UK.

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Kseniia Minakova in the rubble of her destroyed lab, KhPI Kharkiv Ukraine Optic Science Lab, on August 25, 2022.

Physicist Kseniia Minakova’s laboratory was destroyed after a Russian missile hit the National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. Credit: Mykhailo Kirichenko

A year into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Kseniia Minakova is rebuilding her research laboratory and her career.

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Nature 614, 608-612 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00508-0

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