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Editorial

A tangled web we weave p81

doi:10.1038/nphys841


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Thesis

Learning from bacteria p83

Mark Buchanan

doi:10.1038/nphys842


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Books and Arts

Nothing ventured p85

Peter Rodgers reviews The void by Frank Close

doi:10.1038/nphys843


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Research Highlights

Feel the force p87

doi:10.1038/nphys844


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News and Views

Cosmology: Inflation alive and well pp89 - 91

Michael S. Turner

doi:10.1038/nphys850

Subject Categories: Astrophysics | Particle physics


Adaptive optics: Scattered focus p91

Ed Gerstner

doi:10.1038/nphys851

Subject Category: Optical physics


Compact X-ray sources: Towards a table-top free-electron laser pp92 - 93

Kazuhisa Nakajima

doi:10.1038/nphys846

Subject Categories: Other physics | Plasma physics | Techniques and instrumentation


Biophysics: Cell commuters avoid delays pp93 - 95

Leonid Mirny

doi:10.1038/nphys848

Subject Category: Biological physics


Superconductivity: Bring on the real resonance pp95 - 96

Wei-Sheng Lee & Zhi-Xun Shen

doi:10.1038/nphys849

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics


Quantum mechanics: Dynamics of entanglement pp97 - 98

Christian Roos

doi:10.1038/nphys847

Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Information theory and computation


Astrophysics: Rings around the lenses p98

May Chiao

doi:10.1038/nphys852

Subject Category: Astrophysics


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Letters

Evolution equation for quantum entanglement pp99 - 102

Thomas Konrad, Fernando de Melo, Markus Tiersch, Christian Kasztelan, Adriano Aragão & Andreas Buchleitner

doi:10.1038/nphys885

Subject Category: Quantum physics

See also: News and Views by Roos


Memory-built-in quantum teleportation with photonic and atomic qubits pp103 - 107

Yu-Ao Chen, Shuai Chen, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, Bo Zhao, Chih-Sung Chuu, Jörg Schmiedmayer & Jian-Wei Pan

doi:10.1038/nphys832

Subject Categories: Polymer physics | Atomic and molecular physics | Optical physics | Information theory and computation


Visualization of the interplay between high-temperature superconductivity, the pseudogap and impurity resonances pp108 - 111

Kamalesh Chatterjee, M. C. Boyer, W. D. Wise, Takeshi Kondo, T. Takeuchi, H. Ikuta & E. W. Hudson

doi:10.1038/nphys835

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

See also: News and Views by Lee & Shen


Magnetic flux periodicity of h/e in superconducting loops pp112 - 115

F. Loder, A. P. Kampf, T. Kopp, J. Mannhart, C. W. Schneider & Y. S. Barash

doi:10.1038/nphys813

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Quantum physics


Charge fractionalization in quantum wires pp116 - 119

Hadar Steinberg, Gilad Barak, Amir Yacoby, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West, Bertrand I. Halperin & Karyn Le Hur

doi:10.1038/nphys810

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


Hybrid single-electron transistor as a source of quantized electric current pp120 - 124

Jukka P. Pekola, Juha J. Vartiainen, Mikko Möttönen, Olli-Pentti Saira, Matthias Meschke & Dmitri V. Averin

doi:10.1038/nphys808

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


Noise autocorrelation spectroscopy with coherent Raman scattering pp125 - 129

Xiaoji G. Xu, Stanislav O. Konorov, John W. Hepburn & Valery Milner

doi:10.1038/nphys809

Subject Categories: Chemical physics | Techniques and instrumentation


A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator pp130 - 133

H.-P. Schlenvoigt, K. Haupt, A. Debus, F. Budde, O. Jäckel, S. Pfotenhauer, H. Schwoerer, E. Rohwer, J. G. Gallacher, E. Brunetti, R. P. Shanks, S. M. Wiggins & D. A. Jaroszynski

doi:10.1038/nphys811

Subject Categories: Other physics | Plasma physics | Techniques and instrumentation

See also: News and Views by Nakajima


Enhanced reaction kinetics in biological cells pp134 - 137

C. Loverdo, O. Bénichou, M. Moreau & R. Voituriez

doi:10.1038/nphys830

Subject Categories: Biological physics | Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics

See also: News and Views by Mirny


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Articles


Observation of electron–hole puddles in graphene using a scanning single-electron transistor pp144 - 148

J. Martin, N. Akerman, G. Ulbricht, T. Lohmann, J. H. Smet, K. von Klitzing & A. Yacoby

doi:10.1038/nphys781

Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics


Electrohydrodynamic tip streaming and emission of charged drops from liquid cones pp149 - 154

Robert T. Collins, Jeremy J. Jones, Michael T. Harris & Osman A. Basaran

doi:10.1038/nphys807

Subject Category: Fluid dynamics


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Futures

Search strings p156

Marissa Lingen

doi:10.1038/nphys853


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