This issue - pv

doi:10.1038/nphys723

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Elements of style - p581

doi:10.1038/nphys724

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Reverse age discrimination - pp582 - 583

Francesco Sylos Labini & Stefano Zapperi

doi:10.1038/nphys715

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Beat the cycle of preference - p585

Mark Buchanan

doi:10.1038/nphys713

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True or false - p585

David Goodstein

doi:10.1038/nphys714

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An unexpected thrill - p587

Jeff Kuhn reviews The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began by Stuart Clark

doi:10.1038/nphys716

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Egg hunt from there to here - p588

doi:10.1038/nphys719

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Atomic physics: Cold gases venture into Flatland - p589

Keith Burnett

doi:10.1038/nphys704

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Subject Category: Atomic and molecular physics

Plasma astrophysics: Acceleration of killer electrons - pp590 - 591

Richard Bertram Horne

doi:10.1038/nphys703

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Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Plasma physics

Superfluid dynamics: Vortices on the scales - p591

Andreas Trabesinger

doi:10.1038/nphys722

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Subject Categories: Fluid dynamics | Condensed-matter physics

Biophysics: Cell dipoles feel their way - pp592 - 593

Florian Rehfeldt & Dennis E. Discher

doi:10.1038/nphys712

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Subject Category: Biological physics

Computing: Quantum to classical and back - pp593 - 594

Giuseppe E. Santoro & Erio Tosatti

doi:10.1038/nphys706

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Subject Categories: Information theory and computation | Quantum physics

Phase transitions: A complex view of criticality - pp594 - 596

Luciano Reatto

doi:10.1038/nphys702

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Subject Categories: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Condensed-matter physics | Techniques and instrumentation

Nuclear astrophysics: Among the super brilliant - p595

May Chiao

doi:10.1038/nphys718

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Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Nuclear physics

Self-similarity in ultrafast nonlinear optics - pp597 - 603

John M. Dudley, Christophe Finot, David J. Richardson & Guy Millot

doi:10.1038/nphys705

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Subject Categories: Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics

Inside-out evacuation of transitional protoplanetary discs by the magneto-rotational instability - pp604 - 608

Eugene Chiang & Ruth Murray-Clay

doi:10.1038/nphys661

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Subject Category: Astrophysics

Satellite observations of separator-line geometry of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection - pp609 - 613

C. J. Xiao, X. G. Wang, Z. Y. Pu, Z. W. Ma, H. Zhao, G. P. Zhou, J. X. Wang, M. G. Kivelson, S. Y. Fu, Z. X. Liu, Q. G. Zong, M. W. Dunlop, K.-H. Glassmeier, E. Lucek, H. Reme, I. Dandouras & C. P. Escoubet

doi:10.1038/nphys650

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Subject Categories: Plasma physics | Astrophysics

The energization of relativistic electrons in the outer Van Allen radiation belt - pp614 - 617

Yue Chen, Geoffrey D. Reeves & Reiner H. W. Friedel

doi:10.1038/nphys655

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Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Plasma physics

Itinerant to localized transition of f electrons in the antiferromagnetic superconductor UPd₂Al₃ - pp618 - 622

Shin-Ichi Fujimori, Yuji Saitoh, Tetsuo Okane, Atsushi Fujimori, Hiroshi Yamagami, Yoshinori Haga, Etsuji Yamamoto & Yoshichika nuki

doi:10.1038/nphys651

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

Observation of Landau levels of Dirac fermions in graphite - pp623 - 627

Guohong Li & Eva Y. Andrei

doi:10.1038/nphys653

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

Observation of the optical spin Hall effect - pp628 - 631

C. Leyder, M. Romanelli, J. Ph. Karr, E. Giacobino, T. C. H. Liew, M. M. Glazov, A. V. Kavokin, G. Malpuech & A. Bramati

doi:10.1038/nphys676

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Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Optical physics | Condensed-matter physics

All-optical injection of ballistic electrical currents in unbiased silicon - pp632 - 635

Louis Costa, Markus Betz, Marko Spasenovi, Alan D. Bristow & Henry M. van Driel

doi:10.1038/nphys674

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics

Bridging length scales in colloidal liquids and interfaces from near-critical divergence to single particles - pp636 - 640

C. Patrick Royall, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts & Hajime Tanaka

doi:10.1038/nphys679

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Subject Categories: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics | Condensed-matter physics

Charge inversion accompanies DNA condensation by multivalent ions - pp641 - 644

K. Besteman, K. Van Eijk & S. G. Lemay

doi:10.1038/nphys697

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Subject Category: Biological physics

Symmetry of large physical systems implies independence of subsystems - pp645 - 649

Renato Renner

doi:10.1038/nphys684

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Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Information theory and computation | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics

Measurement of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin–orbit magnetic fields - pp650 - 654

Lorenz Meier, Gian Salis, Ivan Shorubalko, Emilio Gini, Silke Schön & Klaus Ensslin

doi:10.1038/nphys675

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Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Techniques and instrumentation

Dynamics of cell orientation - pp655 - 659

Rumi De, Assaf Zemel & Samuel A. Safran

doi:10.1038/nphys680

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Subject Category: Biological physics

Big Dave's last stand - p662

John Gilbey

doi:10.1038/nphys721

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