Editorials in 2014

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  • The authorities must take the necessary time to remedy the slapdash introduction of a database containing the medical records of the entire population of England.

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  • Regulatory agencies must demand conflict-of-interest statements for the research they use.

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  • A collaborative online mathematics project holds lessons for other disciplines.

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  • Putting a private craft into space requires vision, hard work and a big dose of optimism.

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  • Our obligation to keep the suffering of laboratory animals to a minimum — both in life and in death — does not apply only to mammals.

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  • Many bemoan the shortage of helium for the lab, but for geologists, its true value is in the ground.

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  • Science has a part to play in ensuring protection for defendants with intellectual disabilities.

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  • Switzerland’s science landscape is under threat after a narrow majority of citizens voted for tighter immigration rules that could restrict the number of foreign scientists who work in the country.

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  • The correct use of statistics is not just good for science — it is essential.

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  • Despite a high death toll, public-health efforts to combat suicide lag far behind those focused on preventing accidents and diseases such as cancer. A US initiative aims to redress the balance.

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  • A declining island wolf population underlines the influence that humans have on nature.

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  • The Amazon doesn’t absorb extra carbon in the dry season after all. It can become a carbon source.

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  • Europe’s policy-makers must not buy animal-rights activists’ arguments that addiction is a social, rather than a medical, problem.

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  • UK immigration rules are perceived as being tougher than they really are.

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  • Celebrating the many achievements of crystallography.

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  • Europe’s proposed climate targets fire the starting gun on the long build-up to Paris 2015.

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  • An international effort is needed to restore an early-warning system for the vast warming of the Pacific Ocean that leads to extreme weather worldwide.

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  • Timekeeping is boosted by the advent of an optical clock based on strontium atoms.

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  • Members of the US Congress have taken a much-needed step to restore credibility.

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  • Nature’s profile of a former fraudster’s attempts to regain respectability should not be taken as an endorsement of the researcher’s claims.

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