Essay series: Lessons from 150 years of science

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  We ignore the past at our peril

  To navigate the present, we must heed the lessons of history.

  Editorial24 Sep 2019 Nature
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  Discovery is always political

  David Kaiser traces the roots of government support for science, in the first of a series of essays on how the past 150 years have shaped the research system, marking Nature’s 150th anniversary.

  • David Kaiser

  Comment24 Sep 2019 Nature
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  China: How science made a superpower

  Shellen Wu traces the rise of the dominant force in science, in the second of a series of essays on the ways in which the past 150 years have shaped today’s research system, marking Nature’s anniversary.

  • Shellen Wu

  Comment1 Oct 2019 Nature
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  How science has shifted our sense of identity

  Biological advances have repeatedly changed who we think we are, writes Nathaniel Comfort, in the third essay of a series marking Nature’s anniversary on how the past 150 years have shaped science today.

  • Nathaniel Comfort

  Comment8 Oct 2019 Nature
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  Data — from objects to assets

  How did data get so big? Through political, social and economic interests, shows Sabina Leonelli, in the fourth essay on how the past 150 years have shaped the science system, marking Nature’s anniversary.

  • Sabina Leonelli

  Comment15 Oct 2019 Nature
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  Can marketplace science be trusted?

  Historian Paul Lucier traces the explosion and fragmentation of industrial research in the fifth essay in a series on how the past 150 years have shaped today’s science system, marking Nature’s anniversary.

  • Paul Lucier

  Comment22 Oct 2019 Nature
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  Ethical research — the long and bumpy road from shirked to shared

  From all too scarce, to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody’s business, argues Sarah Franklin in the sixth essay in a series on how the past 150 years have shaped science, marking Nature’s anniversary.

  • Sarah Franklin

  Comment29 Oct 2019 Nature
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  Science must move with the times

  Research cannot fulfil its social contract and reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future, argues Philip Ball in the last essay of a series on how the past 150 years have shaped today’s science system, to mark Nature’s anniversary.

  • Philip Ball

  Comment5 Nov 2019 Nature