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PhD comics hits the big screen

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Movie makes stars out of real-life scientists.

The creator of the popular online comic strip 'Piled Higher and Deeper' has turned it into a feature film. The PhD Movie, which opened this week at a handful of US universities, will be screened at campuses worldwide in the coming months. Nature caught up with former robotics researcher turned cartoonist Jorge Cham to find out about his film.

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