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Norway jails researcher who let Iranians use microscope

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Norway jails researcher who let Iranians use microscope

A researcher may have aided Iran’s nuclear weapons programme with unauthorised access, but his sentence was softened due to ‘deficient’ university routines

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Norwegian universities fear EU exclusion under technology rules

Red tape warning for research projects over national security law

German police arrest Russian ‘spy’ at university

Related universities

Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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