Nature highlights

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

• Melting hydrogen
• Patterns of life
• Planets in the making
• Marine aerosols: Organic change
• Tyrannosauroids: Feather wait
• Extinctions: Lack of the Irish
• Diatom success: A trick of the light
• Can evolution beat the cheats?
• Influenza in waiting
• Trigger for prostate cancer
• A handle on c-Myc cancers?

7 October 2004 table of contents