“It's essentially a warning of what they've called academic espionage, whereby sensitive research of these institutions could be targeted and stolen.”

Academics involved in cutting-edge science are to be vetted by the security services after MI5 warned that hostile states are targeting universities to steal technology, reports Victoria Innes.

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