Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
New infectious diseases continue to emerge, yet there is no clear strategy for managing them. A model response should be devised in the light of past events such as the recent US outbreak of a previously unknown hantavirus.
Dust particles embedded in ionized plasma can be made to assemble into crystals of a kind, offering new routes with possible astrophysical implications to the study of the crystalline state.
A complete physical map of the region encompassing the locus for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer should assist the long-awaited cloning of this important gene.
