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For its own international credibility, Indian science must be seen to deal with scientific misconduct, says N. Raghuram.

A regional strategy and a focus on capacity building would strengthen Gulf investments in S&T, say Wael K. Al-Delaimy and Hilal A. Lashuel.

Volunteer citizen scientists are an important resource — particularly for developing countries, argue Nigel Winser and Raghu Saxena.

Science should go 'glocal', integrating global with local knowledge, if it is to reach diverse ethnic communities, says Julia Tagüeña.

Better education, effective communication and dissemination of information could quell dangerous pseudoscience, argues George Claassen.

Let's encourage the mood of political cooperation on the big issues during the International Year of Planet Earth, says Nasser Ennih.

The UN agencies UNICEF and the WHO have broken with protocol and recklessly used data for their own ends, says an editorial in The Lancet.

Indian science has many reasons to be grateful to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the country's recently retired president, maintains Y. S. Rajan.

Clinicians should learn from the alarmist media coverage that followed a recent microbicide trial, say Gita Ramjee and colleagues.

An initiative to bring biomedical research journals free to the developing world is faltering, protest a group of academics in Lima.

Asian scientists must work together to circumvent political tensions and produce high-quality research, says a Nature editorial.

Talli Nauman argues that environmental journalists must be more than simple informers to provide better coverage of development issues.

Scientists must be guaranteed freedom of speech if they are to help society, argues Jaime Requena.

Health information must be disseminated using appropriate technologies, say Clifford C. Missen and Thomas M. Cook.

More should be done to strengthen ties between formal scientific research and informal grassroots innovations, says Anil Gupta.

Media coverage of science is declining in China — but scientists, press officers and journalists could change the situation, says Hepeng Jia.

Public engagement is as vital as technological breakthroughs in controlling animal disease epidemics, says Jakob Zinsstag.

Indian scientists should stop complaining and join public discussions to influence policymaking, says a Nature editorial.

The African media can play a crucial role in communicating climate information to the public, says Patrick Luganda.

All scientists — rich or poor — should have free and open access to published data; any attempt to restrict such access is unacceptable, argues Donat Agosti.