Editorials in 2011

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  • A court decision in the United States rescinding an order to turn over academic e-mails in response to a freedom-of-information request is welcome.

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  • What will scientists do if they fail to find the Higgs boson?

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  • Momentum builds for ozone treaty to take on greenhouse gases.

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  • Efforts to elucidate how genes and the environment shape the development of autism, although making progress, still fall far short of their goal.

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  • Results confirming climate change are welcome, even when released before peer review.

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  • Germany must do more to encourage dialogue on animal experimentation.

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  • The key to treatments for autism and schizophrenia could lie in the brains of recently deceased children. To make advances, researchers need access to an international bank of donated material.

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  • The US government must take a firm stance on whether prostate-cancer screening is justified.

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  • Political maps that seek to advance disputed territorial claims have no place in scientific papers. Researchers should keep relationships cordial by depoliticizing their work.

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  • Science lobbyists must boost the appeal of research to policy-makers.

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  • The bizarre-looking naked mole rat is a worthy member of the genome club.

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  • Steve Jobs and Apple revolutionized the way scientists render their work.

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  • The continued imprisonment of a French-Algerian physicist highlights the need for scientists to defend the human rights of all colleagues.

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  • As Nature's science-fiction column reaches a milestone, we recall some of the highlights.

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  • Research into cloned human cells has left the spectre of past scientific fraud behind. But reaction to the earlier work still holds worthwhile lessons.

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  • Frustrations of the newest European member states will shape debate over research funding.

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  • Canada should make public the identities of researchers who commit misconduct.

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  • Research that underpins the preservation of cultural treasures should be championed.

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  • Sending satellites to monitor the atmosphere is fundamental to weather and climate research. So why is the United States making such a meal of it?

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  • Twenty years after the end of the cold war scientists and the military still need each other.

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