China’s main scientific research funder, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), launched an unusually open-ended funding scheme last month. For 44 young researchers, the majority of which will come from China, the NSFC will provide 15 years of funding for blue-sky scientific work with virtually no strings attached.
The researchers aren’t expected to produce any scientific breakthrough, however. “We only assess one thing: your presence in the lab,” the NSFC president
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