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Science Europe, the organisation that will represent national research bodies in Brussels, has set out its agenda to influence EU policy and help shape the development of European research priorities.

Science Museum are failing grown-ups...

Data, Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor, Compound Visualizations

Marc Sands, director of audiences and media for the Tate galleries. Conférence LOGIN2011 http://login.lt/ (Lituanie).

There are deals that can be done and those we want to do. A deal that joins the two is a good deal. In this interview for "The Science Business" blog, Sanofi CEO presents the merger strategy of the group and compares it to Pfizer or Merck.

Rupert Murdoch's talks with Microsoft about removing his newspapers' stories from Google, and giving index rights to Bing instead could be a pivotal moment in internet economics, writes John Gapper.

Russell Foltz-Smith, Business Development for Wolfram Alpha sits down with Nova Spivack of Twine.com to discuss the recent launch. What Wolfram Alpha is (and is not) and where the much talked about project is heading from here. How is Wolfram pursuing distribution, licensing deals, etc.?

No one can predict the future, but the powers of probability can help. Armed with this knowledge, a high-school mathematics education and £50, I headed off to find out how Thorp, and others like him, have used mathematics to beat the system.

Hiroshi Tasaka talks about the paradox that knowledge actually is loosing its value in our society and that wisdom and collective intelligence become more important. According to him, companies have to open up to the web 2.0 in order to end the old-fashioned capitalism we know.

Playing dead is a well known anti-predator defense in many animals, but its use as a strategy to obtain sex has not been seen before.