UK scientists get funding ban reprieveSerially unsuccessful applicants can still apply for grants.Richard Van NoordenAfter a campaign by scientists, the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has softened and delayed its controversial policy to bar serially unsuccessful grant applicants from making funding bids for one year. The ban — which may be unique among European and US funding bodies — was due to be imposed on 229 researchers starting on 1 June, in an effort to redu