Editorials in 2011

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  • The crisis at Fukushima Daiichi should spark a rethink of nuclear-research programmes.

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  • Leaders must end a run of unmet pledges when they meet to discuss sustainable development.

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  • National cybersecurity plans should go beyond the cold-war mentality of an arms race and focus more on linking traditional computer security with protections for industrial control systems.

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  • A trove of worms found in the deep subsurface biosphere illustrates the ubiquity of life.

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  • Europe's science meeting is getting bigger and better. Now's the time to get involved for 2012.

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  • Three decades on from the first published cases of what would later be recognized as AIDS, the social and cultural challenges of the disease remain.

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  • The great achievements of vaccines are not consigned to the past.

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  • Graphene is not a miracle material, just a very promising one. It will take restraint and sustained interest to deliver its potential.

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  • A slow university investigation into serious accusations of misconduct benefits no one.

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  • Official recognition for the Anthropocene would focus minds on the challenges to come.

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  • An accusation that referees are too demanding and editors too supine demands a response. Authors, editors and referees all have lessons to learn.

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  • Targeted therapies work, but need help to fulfil their potential.

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  • The Internet offers ways for researchers to steer public perceptions, for bad and good.

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  • An initiative from Scientific American aims to find 1,000 scientists to visit schools, help teachers and boost US education.

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  • The scientific endeavour needs to deliver public value, not just research papers.

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  • The European Union plans to throw serious money at serious problems.

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  • Political hostility over global-warming policy in the United States is causing collateral damage. Plans for a national Climate Service deserve better.

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  • Plans to conserve the world's tropical forests must respect the rights of indigenous peoples.

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  • The world must strengthen the ability of the International Atomic Energy Agency to make independent assessments of nuclear safety.

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