There are lots of journals out there, more than I could name in any one article, but as you get into science communication, the number of peer-reviewed publications drops considerably.

That seems odd, since communicating with the public, and therefore with the voters on policy, is so crucial to keeping science funding in place.

A group of volunteers had that same thought, so they secured some funding from the European Space Agency's Hubble Space Telescope group and set out to fill that gap. CAP Journal was born. CAP Journal stands for Communicating Astronomy with the Public. It's a new magazine, in print and online, and the timing is excellent.

Venus, it turns out, is a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes and disappearing just as quickly. This kind of ‘global weather’, unlike anything on Earth, has given scientists a new mystery to solve.

The cloud-covered world of Venus is all but a featureless, unchangeable globe at visible wavelengths of light. Switch to the ultraviolet and it reveals a truly dynamic nature. Transient dark and bright markings stripe the planet, indicating regions where solar ultraviolet radiation is absorbed or reflected, respectively.

In July 2007, the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) captured a series of images showing the development of a bright southern haze.

The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move, that collision with one sliding below the other into the rocky mantle, could potentially improve their ability to assess earthquake risks.

A team of researchers writing in Nature found that, contrary to common scientific predictions, dense plates tend to be held in the upper mantle, while younger and lighter plates sink more readily into the lower mantle.

The mantle is a zone underneath the Earth's crust encompassing its super hot molten core. It is divided into an upper and lower area, and is made up of a 2,900 km circumference of churning, viscous rock. It is constantly fed with new material from parts of tectonic plates which slide down from the surface into it.

BASINGSTOKE, England and PHILADELPHIA, February 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) the global specialty biopharmaceutical company announces results for the twelve months to December 31, 2007 - a year which has seen significant growth in launched products.

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REHOVOT, Israel and NORTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, February 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosetta Genomics (Nasdaq: ROSG), today announced it will release fourth quarter financial results on February 29, 2007, before the U.S. markets open. Rosetta Genomics will host a conference call with a simultaneous webcast to discuss these results at 8:30 a.m. ET on February 29.

To access the live conference call, U.S. and Canadian participants may dial 1-866-966-5335; international participants may dial +44-20-3023-4460. To access the 24-hour audio replay, U.S. and Canadian participants may dial 1-866-583-1035; international participants may dial +44-20-8196-1996. The access code for the replay is 181543#. The replay will be available until March 7, 2008.

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- Summary: Genmab and PDL BioPharma Have Entered into an Agreement Under Which Genmab Will Acquire PDL's Antibody Manufacturing Facility Located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, USA.

Genmab A/S (OMX: GEN) and PDL BioPharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: PDLI) announced today that they have entered into an agreement under which Genmab would acquire PDL's antibody manufacturing facility located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, USA for USD 240 million to be paid in cash. The transaction also includes land, equipment and access to a leased space housing a development lab.

A new way of looking at cities has emerged during the last 20 years that could revolutionise planning and ultimately benefit city dwellers.

‘The Size, Scale and Shape of Cities’ in Science advocates an integrated approach to the theory of how cities evolve by linking urban economics and transportation behaviour with developments in network science, allometric growth and fractal geometry.

Professor Batty argues that planning’s reliance on the imposition of idealised geometric plans upon cities is rooted in the nineteenth century attitude which viewed cities as chaotic, sprawling and dirty.

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LONDON and DUBLIN, Ireland, February 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Travel Company to Use ReconNET to Automate Reconciliation Workflow and Mitigate Risk

LONDON, February 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Panel to Address Secure Information Sharing Requirements That Support the Front Lines

Exostar's senior vice president, Ludo Van Vooren, joins a prestigious panel of speakers at the Defence IT 08 Conference, to discuss the role of business-to-business networks in providing infrastructure and connectivity for defence agencies and their industry partners. Joining Van Vooren on the dais are representatives from the Royal Air Force, British Telecom and the U.K. Ministry of Defence.