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The Royal Society's spirit of inquiry

Swimmers in the beach rosort of Hainan, Southern China, where the cost of a room has has soared to £4,000.

The Royal Society: The unstoppable spirit of inquiry

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Getting the Royal Society stamp of approval

The UK's Royal Mail today celebrated the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society by putting out a set of new stamps.

Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien to present national lecture at the Biophysical Society meeting

The 8,700-member Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Roger Tsien will deliver the National Lecture at the Biophysical Society 54th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, February 20-24, 2010. Being named the National Lecturer is the Society's highest honor. Tsien, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008. He has been a member of the Biophysical Society since 2002.

Ancient and modern: First science academy is 350 years old

AFP/Royal Society – Handout photo provided by the Royal Society shows Isaac Newton's 'Death Mask'. The Royal …

Royal Society: Protect U.K. Science to Ensure Economic Health

Hot on the heels of the U.K. Council for Science and Technology's (CST's) Vision for UK Research last Monday, the Royal Society this week releases its own report on the future of scientific research in Britain. The Scientific Century: Securing our future prosperity—drawn up by an ad hoc advisory group of 18 experts from the academic, business, and science policy realms—was unveiled to the media yesterday.

Museum Launches New Online History Resource For Schools - Royal Pharmaceutical Society Of Great Britain

The Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has launched a brand new on-line resource for pupils at Key Stage 3 and 4. Health Histories uses primary source material to allow students to investigate pharmacy history in the 20th century.

Mars Rover Spirit Parked For The Winter

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now parked for the winter. The rover team is commanding Spirit this week to make additional preparations for the Mars southern hemisphere winter season. The team does not plan further motion of the wheels until spring comes to Spirit's location beside the western edge of a low plateau called Home Plate.

Mars Rover Spirit Finishes Pre-Winter Drives

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is now parked for the winter. The rover team is commanding Spirit this week to make additional preparations for the Mars southern hemisphere winter season. The team does not plan further motion of the wheels until spring comes to Spirit's location beside the western edge of a low plateau called Home Plate.

Mars Rover? Nah Southern Spirit!

While this desolate looking red landscape looks like it might be part of the Martian surface, it's actually a bit closer to home. The Great Southern Rail, which launched a luxury train crossing Australia from Darwin to Adelaide, has christened one of its lines the "Ghan" after the original ships of the desert – camels – and its other line the Southern Spirit. The Southern Spirit joins the Ghan, which runs south to north, and the Indian Pacific, which runs east to west, as a grand rail adventure of world standard. The remarkable difference about the Southern Spirit is that it will traverse the country both east to west and north to south and offer an adventure you might never associate with a rail trip… Astronomy!

Mars Rover Spirit Update: Spirit Hunkers Down for Winter

Spirit is parked for the winter in the embedded area called "Troy" on the west side of Home Plate. Efforts continue to prepare the rover for winter.

Copyright societies expand role

Under the Copyrights Act 1957 copyright societies are authorised to grant licences for copyrighted works. No other person except the owner of the work or a copyright society can grant a licence. A copyright society has the task of collective management of the rights of the owners and furthers their interests to prevent infringement of their works, in India as well as abroad. As India is a member of international conventions, the copyright societies in India can have reciprocal arrangements with organisations in other countries for collection of royalties for use of Indian works in these countries. Again, the owners have to withdraw the licence bestowed on the copyright society without prejudice to the rights of the society. In India, copyright societies like IPRS, PPL, SCRIPT have been protecting and managing the rights of the owners for

Royal Canadian Mint Vancouver 2010 coins to be permanently displayed at Olympic Museum

Today, the Royal Canadian Mint presented its Vancouver 2010 coin collection to the International Olympic Committee, to be permanently displayed at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. This ceremony, which has become an Olympic Games tradition, was held at the Royal Canadian Mint Pavilion and was attended by IOC President Jacques Rogge, IOC President for Life Juan Antonio Samaranch, John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), Minister of State for Transport, the Honourable Rob Merrifield and the Premier of British Columbia, the Honourable Gordon Campbell.

Spirit's Tour To The Center Of Mars

Mars rover Spirit has tenaciously swept, scraped, and squeezed secrets from the forbidding surface of Mars for 6 years. Now at an impasse, up to its belly in sand, it has struggled to tilt its solar panels toward the sun and collect just enough power to survive the perilously cold Martian winter. If Spirit can make it through to spring, the feisty robot will prove it's still in the game—by solving the mysteries of the Martian core.

Royal Bank of Scotland to realign cost base

Stephen Hester, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, has this week confirmed that the company will be paying staff less than their rivals. While this has been welcomed by those dismayed at the amount of money paid to the company's highflying staff it may well have a detrimental impact on the company's future performance. How can Royal Bank of Scotland survive in the cutthroat world of finance if it is unable to attract the best brains in the business?

Royal Canadian Mint Vancouver 2010 coins to be permanently displayed at Olympic Museum

VANCOUVER, Feb. 14 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, the Royal Canadian Mint presented its Vancouver 2010 coin collection to the International Olympic Committee, to be permanently displayed at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. This ceremony, which has become an Olympic Games tradition, was held at the Royal Canadian Mint Pavilion and was attended by IOC President Jacques Rogge, IOC President for Life Juan Antonio Samaranch, John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), Minister of State for Transport, the Honourable Rob Merrifield and the Premier of British Columbia, the Honourable Gordon Campbell.

Hobbled Spirit rover parks for Martian winter

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit recorded this fisheye view with its rear hazard-avoidance camera after completing a drive during the 2,169th Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (Feb. 8, 2010).

Second Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies

The Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies(S.NET) is an international association that promotes open intellectual exchange towards the advancement of knowledge and understanding of nanotechnologies in society. S.NET represents diverse communities, viewpoints, and methodologies in the social sciences and humanities. It welcomes contributions from scientists and engineers that advance the critical reflection of nanotechnologies and related developments.

Leeds Building Society unveils record operating profit

Business Financial Newswire - Leeds Building Society - the UK's sixth largest building society - unveils record operating profits of £80.1m.

Indie Spirit Awards: Casual Cool

It attracts the biggest Hollywood stars — Brangelina, Anne Hathaway, Cameron Diaz, even an Olsen twin or two — but the annual Independent Spirit Awards show is a happily low-key affair. Generally held a day before the Oscars inside a tent on the beach at Santa Monica, the ceremony keeps its focus on the best independently financed films of the year. Appropriately, the stars being honored bring down their wardrobe budgets. That's not to say they don't still make a style statements... like Hilary Swank and then-husband Chad Lowe did in 2001, rolling up to the show on their bicycles. Check out the Spirit Awards' casual-cool scene over the years.

Astronomical Society of the Pacific elects new president

William Gutsch, Ph.D., graduate of Saint Peter's College, class of 1967, and distinguished professor in the College of Arts and Sciences/School of Business Administration at Saint Peter's, has been elected to be the next president of the Board of Directors of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). The ASP, which was founded in 1889, is the largest general astronomy society in the world with members participating from over 70 nations. Dr. Gutsch joins an illustrious group of past presidents to serve the ASP's Board of Directors, including Edwin Hubble, who discovered the expanding universe and for whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named.

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