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Despite well publicized cases of scientific fraud, and less publicized examples of other misbehaviour by researchers, calls for enhanced external policing of science need to be greeted sceptically.
Scientists are increasingly dependent on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Although global demand is currently causing congestion, deregulation and clever use of the Web point the way forward.
Despite wide interest in human genome patents, there has been little information about exactly who owns what. Europe would do well to ponder over the stake already held by Japan and the United States.
The amount of dust in the atmosphere is increasing, largely because of human activity. Its climatic importance is becoming clear, as is our ignorance about aerosols in general.
Capillary gel electrophoresis with laser-induced fluorescent detection has been found to be a powerful separation and characterization tool for fluorescently labelled carbohydrates.
