Nature highlights

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

• Scorched earth: Environmental legacy of tropical peat fires
• Science publishing: The good books
  
• Clinical trials: Multiple sclerosis
• The brain: Forgetting is the new learning
  
• Neutron stars: act normal
• Geomagnetic jerks: a new twist
• Space science: Too-blue skies?
• Biodiversity: Publish and be late
  

7 November 2002 table of contents