Nature 150

A CENTURY AND A HALF OF RESEARCH AND DISCOVERY This week is a really special one for all of us at Nature: it’s 150 years since our first issue, published in November 1869. (That makes it our sesquicentenary, by the way.) We’ve been working for well over a year on our anniversary issue, which is published today. There was a buzz in the London office when the print issue landed on our desks this morning, and we’re just as excited about what you’ll find online. It’s been humbling and rewarding to look back at the amazing research that we’ve helped to communicate over that time. It reminded us all why we love science and work as hard as we do. We really hope you find some surprises in the issue. And we’re already planning how we can do better, and do even more for science, scientists and society, next year — when we’re 151. Helen Pearson, Chief Magazine Editor

150 years of Nature

A network of science The multidisciplinary scope of Nature is revealed by an analysis of more than 88,000 papers Nature has published since 1900, and their co-citations in other articles. Take a journey through a 3D network of Nature’s archive in an interactive graphic. Or, let us fly you through it in this spectacular 5-minute video.