Nature highlights

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

• Story of a neuron
• Glutamate transport: super bowl
• Magnetic stars
• Drought on Mars
• Halo revelation
• Tailor-made optoelectronics
• Sleeping partners
• Evolution's dark side
• Insect behaviour: scent off
• Seeing through the noise
• Hydrogen lines crossed

14 October 2004 table of contents