Nature highlights

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

• Not just deserts?
• Early solar system: times change
• Astronomy on ice
• Extending the trap
• Switched-on nanotubes
• The cats out of the bag
• Childhood's end
• Clutch control
• Endocannabinoid function
• Myosin-10 shapes up

16 September 2004 table of contents