The Nature Journal

Norman Lockyer, a former editor, was the man who founded the now world-renowned scientific journal entitled The Nature Journal on November fourth, 1869. Lockyer, having been only a professor at the Imperial College at the time, was not only Nature's founder, but its first editor as well. It was only in 1919 that he was eventually succeeded by Richard Gregory, the man who ultimately inculcated Nature into the international scientific community.

Subsequently after introducing the concept of an international scientific journal to the public, people began to conceptualize Nature's purpose. Despite being created for the sole purpose of publishing articles and journals on science's most modern discoveries and findings, it was established to present advances in the field of science in a manner which would indubitably draw its readers in. Nature, to this day, has made significant progress in keeping the public connected to the world of science and acquainting them with a sense of understanding of the scientific findings that are occuring everyday.

To provide you with a clearer understanding of the type of information which The Nature Journal publishes, here are a few examples.

• http://www.nature.com/

• http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101125/full/news.2010.633.html

In this particular article, Ewen Callaway elucidates how biologists have been successful in their attempts of constructing a programmable genetic 'circuit' that can rewire cells to respond on demand to just about any signal desired.

• http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101124/full/468492a.html

As you can deduce from this article, by Lizzie Buchen, it entails what microbiologists who study human bowels can learn from those who study the bowels of Earth.

Nature is one of the world's most prestigious and acclaiming journals, and has also been cited as one of the world's most interdisciplinary journals as well. There is a myriad number of fields of scientific research in which recent important discoveries have been published as either articles or letters. To name a few, molecular biology, genetics, astronomy, biophysics, chemical sciences, and more. In fact, a majority these have either made their way to Nature's front page or have been included in the journal themselves.