OPINION: Singapore's salad days are over for scientists

Nature.com, 8 Dec 2010Uncertainty has replaced confidence as economic reality bites science in the city-state and scientists find that their research funds now come with strings attached.Rumours of purse-tightening measures have grown over the past year, but researchers in the city-state were still stunned by the news in September that almost one-third of the total research budget will be