Editorials in 2006

Researchers should speak out on claims made on behalf of their science.

Hollywood warms to science, but fears technology.

A popular new paradigm for the nature of change pertains more to the social and political worlds than it does to the physical one.

.....is an idea best avoided.

Will a change of management at Los Alamos put basic research under pressure?

Economics and physics are two disciplines that, contrary to widespread perceptions, have significant common agendas. Shame, then, that the professionals don't do more to recognize the fact.

Introducing two Nature initiatives.

Clinical microbiologists should catch up with their colleagues and use metagenomics.

As Chinese research expands, who is looking out for faked results?

Researchers have a duty to use the most humane means available of killing laboratory animals.

Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans last year, has thrust the link between climate change and extreme weather events onto the US political agenda.

The European Union's greenhouse-gas trading system needs reinforcement.

A more detailed understanding of scientific concepts does not lead to simplicity.

Biologists should push forward with an effort that began in California last weekend to wrestle with the implications of synthetic biology.

Britain's regulator has taken a sensible approach to the fraught question of what kinds of genetic testing should be permitted on embryos.

Peer review comes to the patent office.

Immunology and microbiology come together to fight disease.

Some research centres are more equal than others.

Science in the Arctic cries out for better coordination — perhaps modelled on what happens in Antarctica.

US legislation could fill a gap in drought research.