Do researchers need extra incentives? The idea should seem strange to any young scientist - and a good many older ones too. Think of the theoretical physicist who will happily sit down at the weekend, not to read the newspapers but to play around with equations. Think of the cell biologist willing to put up with the burden of running and re-running painstaking experiments because it's so difficult to make the set-up deliver - but whose instincts suggest that there is a nugget of insight at the end.
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