Editorials in 2009

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  • The agreement reached last week lends fresh urgency to challenges in science and communication.

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  • Nature is pleased to name physicist Steven Chu, Nobel laureate and the US Secretary of Energy, as its Newsmaker of the Year.

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  • The Japanese winners of Nature's mentoring awards have the universal qualities of outstanding advisers.

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  • A proposed author ID system is gaining widespread support, and could help lay the foundation for an academic-reward system less heavily tied to publications and citations.

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  • It will take time to assess the value of fresh approaches to science and technology studies.

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  • Animal-research policies should be guided by moral consensus, not by arbitrary decisions.

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  • Iran's institutions must investigate allegations of scientific plagiarism as a matter of urgency.

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  • Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy, but do highlight ways in which climate researchers could be better supported in the face of public scrutiny.

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    • Rosamund Daw
    • Stefano Tonzani
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  • Britain's main opposition party needs policies for research and for universities.

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  • The US Food and Drug Administration cannot fulfil its mandate without a serious funding boost.

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  • Japan's effort to make budget allocations by public hearing could be good for the country and for science, but not as currently planned.

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  • Information-sharing resources are essential to biologists and deserve international support.

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  • This third special issue in Nature's year-long celebration of Charles Darwin focuses on the dire challenges to Earth's biodiversity — and finds some reason for hope.

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  • Spain should not use the recession as an excuse to stall plans to boost its scientific enterprise.

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  • The ad-hoc proliferation of high-security biological labs must be controlled, and should be tied in more closely to broader research and public-health goals.

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  • The recently launched World Health Summit offers a rare chance for dialogue.

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  • The sacking of a government adviser on drugs shows Britain's politicians can't cope with intelligent debate.

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  • An emissions trading scheme gives forests a market value on the basis of how much carbon they sequester. It could help to control global warming — if developing nations meet their responsibilities.

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  • Nature's birthday offers an occasion to reflect on the past and look to the future.

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