He also said that any additional charges, such as for printing in the library or for science materials, must be "banned outright".

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Really early-stage science projects that have a lot of materials science risk or long-term capital intensity risk are going to be tougher to fund.

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One of those leading the reaction against carbon nanotubes (so-called, because their dimensions are measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre) is Reshef Tenne, head of materials science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

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