Nature highlights

Key research and analysis from this week's Nature magazine.

• When whales walked the Earth
  
• Cracking up: An alternative view of friction
• Quantum control: Electromagnetically induced transparency
• Scaling: Rhythm of life
• Muscular Dystrophy: Minigene therapy
• Superconductors: Local issue
• Ceramics: Shape of things to come

20 September 2001 table of contents