Nature highlights

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

• Insulators: Diamond under the microscope
  
• Soil carbon cycling: Warming slows the rot
• Ecosystems: Reacting to catastrophe
• Calcium channels: Unisex contraceptives?
• Nanotechnology: On the surface
• Immunohistochemistry: Acquired taste
• Mutualism: Community spirit
• Ferromagnetism: Good companions
• Sirenian evolution: Sea change

11 October 2001 table of contents