Making the paper: Dorian McGavern & Jiyun Kim

Nature 457, 128 (2009). doi:10.1038/7226128a

A window onto the brain reveals the true villains in viral meningitis.

Abstractions

Nature 457, 128 (2009). doi:10.1038/7226128b

First authorClues about the evolution of certain objects in the Solar System are concealed in their rocky crusts. On Earth, for example, the continents and mountain ranges so familiar to us today are the result of billions of years of plate movements and collisions.

From the Blogosphere

Nature 457, 128 (2009). doi:10.1038/7226128c

A vast room of poster presentations greeted thousands of scientists at the American Geophysical Union's annual autumn meeting, which started on 15 December 2008 in San Francisco, California. One of the posters stood out, writes Nature reporter Rex Dalton at In The Field (

Data for the masses

Nature 457, 129 (2009). doi:10.1038/457129a

Initiatives for digital research infrastructure should focus more on making standardized data openly available, and less on developing new portals.

Culture clash

Nature 457, 129 (2009). doi:10.1038/457129b

Samuel Huntington will be remembered for his ideas, controversial as they might have been.