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• How does an audience know when to start and stop clapping? 19 June 2013

  Researchers have found that applause spreads like a 'disease’ though an audience, with applause duration often not connected to the quality of the performance, as reported in Journal of the Royal Society Interface today.

• Royal Society responds to G8 science ministers' statement 14 June 2013

  Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, responds to a statement from the G8 science ministers, which was issued following the first joint ministers and science academies meeting to be held under the G8.

   

   

• G8 science ministers and national science academies meet at Royal Society 12 June 2013

  The Royal Society will play host today to the first ever G8 joint science ministers and national science academies meeting.

   

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