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3 October 2011

£50m for atomic-scale chicken wire

One welcome piece of news from George Osborne's speech.

By Helen Lewis

Do not adjust your Newstatesman.com but there’s one bit of George Osborne’s speech to the Conservative party conference that’s worth praising: his commitment of £50m to research into the “wonder material” graphene. It was part of his package of science-funding announcements, including £145m for supercomputer research and £150m on extra mobile phone masts.

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