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Funding: Austerity bites deeply

PhD students in Luiz Davidovich's quantum-optics laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil are afraid to turn on the lab's main laser in case it malfunctions. Davidovich encourages them to be extremely careful. "If it breaks — and lasers do break — that's it," he says. "There's no money to replace or fix it." » Veja mais...