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How to solve the world's biggest problems

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Interdisciplinarity has become all the rage as scientists tackle climate change and other intractable issues. But there is still strong resistance to crossing borders.

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    An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed the report Evaluating Interdisciplinary Research to Tom McLeish and his colleagues at Durham. The authors were Veronica Strang and McLeish. The text has been updated.

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Ledford, H. How to solve the world's biggest problems. Nature 525, 308–311 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/525308a

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