Graduating without a thesis: meet the people getting ‘practical’ PhDs in China
Nature, Published online: 09 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01242-z Nature spoke to three students from China’s first cohort of PhD candidates who are allowed to graduate with products instead of…
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