Editorials in 2005

The hurricane disaster on the Gulf coast will change the federal government's research priorities.

Efforts to gauge public attitudes to nanotechnology reveal concerns that can be readily addressed.

The efficiency of research agencies and their responsiveness to grant applicants vary widely around the world. It is time for the laggards to reform.

Lack of affordable child care is a major impediment to women's careers, in science as elsewhere.

Nations need a more effective way to coordinate their responses to environmental challenges.

An international organization is finally bringing discipline to the study of cells' sets of proteins.

Efforts to reform the Endangered Species Act could harm America's most important conservation law.

Last week's debacle in New Orleans highlights failings not just in the Bush administration, but in how the United States chooses to govern itself.

Public controversies that involve scientific uncertainty can be influenced by mavericks. Open confrontation and analysis serves the public better than excommunication.

This issue of Nature includes several reasons for editorial celebration.

Universities should back researchers determined to stand up for animal research in the face of terrorism.

A case in the Kansas Supreme Court reflects a lack of clarity in US copyright law.

Your bookmarks make your web life manageable. But we can all benefit by sharing them.

Next month's general election in Germany may see the end of the Green Party's spell in government. The party has fared well, as has science with it, except where ideology won out over good sense.

The painstaking US approach to the assessment of climate-change science yields some useful results.

A spiritual leader with an interest in research has encountered opposition to his plans to speak at a scientific meeting. But he is perfectly entitled to do so.

Researchers have two rare opportunities to influence the ways in which they may be assessed in future.

The need to bring new blood into science shouldn't force out talented older researchers prematurely.

President Bush's endorsement of ‘intelligent design’ has sparked a national debate in which scientists are well positioned to prevail.

Aspirant research hubs in southeast Asia have enjoyed contrasting fortunes.