Editorials in 2008

Innovation is a complex ecosystem that requires careful cultivation.

The world has an abundance of renewable energy to offer, the question is how to harness it.

Drug testing in sport aims to promote fair play, but the science behind the tests needs to be more open.

The Italian government needs to maintain a careful distance from industry.

Although the Euroscience Open Forum is a meeting to be proud of, its organizers should aim even higher.

Governments need to back an overhaul to get the electricity grid ready for renewable energy.

The fight against AIDS is losing ground, but the current spate of mud-slinging is far from helpful.

That the H5N1 strain of bird flu has not yet caused a pandemic is no cause for complacency. Preparations for the inevitable must be redoubled to mitigate the potential devastation.

Efforts to inform US military policy with insights from the social sciences could be a win–win approach.

Neuroscientists and geneticists don't need to be at loggerheads over the biology of mental disorders.

A treasure-trove of data in the UK National Health Service is set to energize biomedical research.

Bad nutrition needs the world's attention. Not least that of biologists.

Not unless a research institution's managers recognize its value.

Britain's 'big science' funding agency is now in a position to regain much-needed credibility.

The Templeton Foundation's exploration of science and faith merits tolerance, not outright rejection.

The incoming US administration can and should reverse the neglect of Earth observations.

By almost every measure, China's growth is extraordinary. But behind the astonishing statistics is a more complex reality.

In the 30 years since the birth of the world's first 'test tube' baby, in vitro fertilization has become commonplace. The next three decades could bring equally transformative technologies.

British research councils should still foster basic science.