I've always been baffled that people are prepared to pay this kind of money for 5 minutes of weightlessness. I might pay $2000 for this flight. But $200k, never. For $200k I'd expect a week in orbit. Plus a chance to join the 100 mile high club :-).

You don't sell your research to Nature. You submit it for publication and are overjoyed if they accept it. Nature is the most prestigious publication in the field of biology bar none.
But as far as I know, theres nothing stopping you from putting it up on your web site as well or submitting it in publication in other journals.

So it being published in Nature doesnt stop it from being publically available. Its just that the other copies might be harder to find..

Trees have been converting airborne CO2 into fuel for about a million years..

I suspect the game your thinking of was "warp" written by Larry Wall. It definitely had tholians spinning a web around you. This game is hand coded in assembler for a very specific machine architecture. Theres no way it ran on a Vax.