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• Academies respond to Government consultation on science and research funding 20 May 2013

  The Government’s spending decisions for the financial year 2015-16 provide an important opportunity to strengthen the role of research and innovation as drivers of UK growth and competitiveness, according to the UK’s four national academies, including the Royal Society.

   

• Rescued fossil revolutionises understanding of ancient dolphin-like marine reptile 15 May 2013

  A paper published in Biology Letters today reveals a new species of ichthyosaur (a dolphin-like marine reptile from the age of dinosaurs) which revolutionises our understanding of their evolution and extinction. 

• Royal Society elects new Fellows for 2013 03 May 2013

   Pioneers of the Internet, computing, climate modelling and virtual surgery are just some of the experts who have been announced as new Fellows of the Royal Society today (3 May 2013).

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