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The article reports on the celebration made by the Linnean Society of London for the 150 years anniversary since the reading of the seminal evolution papers by British naturalists Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace at one of the meetings of the organization in England in 1858. According to the article, the reading of the papers marks the removal of humanity from the center of creation to promote the concept of evolution that theorizes that life came into being by a process of natural selection.

Focuses on the University of Cambridge's plans to purchase scientific writings of Sir Isaac Newton from the Earl of Macclesfield at an auction in England. Intention of the university to unite the papers with their existing collection of Newton's works; Contribution from the United Kingdom Heritage Lottery Fund toward the purchase.

The article focuses on a study conducted by researchers led by Steven Bramwell of the University College London and Sean Giblin of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in London, England regarding the physical evidence for currents of magnetic monopoles. Bramwell states that the pairwise magnetic interactions between spinning atoms in spin ices stays disordered down to absolute zero. Giblin adds that a muon can be incredibly sensitive to local magnetic fields.

The article discusses postage stamps that have been issued by Britain’s Royal Mail throughout the years and examines the latest set, which commemorates the founding of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, England. This set belongs to the Action for Species series, which depicts threatened species in Great Britain. Other sets of stamps have featured evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and England’s Queen Elizabeth II.

The article reports on the discovery of David Colquhoun and Lucia Sivilotti on the mechanism that explains the response of receptors to partial agonists in London, England. It reveals that many drugs work by binding to a specific cell receptors and stimulating its activity triggers a cascade of events in the cell. These drugs and the naturally occurring chemicals with the same modus operandi are called agonists but some of these elicit a powerful response while others generate smaller responses even at high levels to occupy all the available receptors. Both of them discovered a new mechanism to explain how receptors respond to partial agonists wherein they found that agonist-bound receptor can exist in one of three states, resting, partially activated or flipped from resting.

The article presents the study regarding Saturn's outermost ring, the F ring, conducted by Carl Murray and colleagues at Queen Mary, University of London in London, England. According to the author, Murray found out that constant collisions and the gravitational pull among a population of small satellites give the ring its form. It reveals that the narrow F ring of Saturn was discovered from images captured by the Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1979. In addition, later data from Voyager 1 and 2 depicted that the ring as having a core about 1 kilometre wide surrounded by a 50 kilometre wide envelope, both supposedly held in place by the gravitational pull of Prometheus and Pandora, Saturn's shepherding moons.

Profiles Andrew Smith, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. Career background; Achievements and awards; Civic activities; Biographic profile; Job responsibilities; Institutional and organizational affiliations.

Reports on the conflict between the staff of the 'New England Journal of Medicine' and one of the leaders of a movement for open access to the scientific literature. Impact of the dispute on the publication of various research works in the country; Authors of a kidney transplant study refused by the publication as a result of the dispute.

The article offers the author's insights on the policy report called "Science as an Open Enterprise" from the Royal Society in London, England concerning access to scientific papers and theories. He mentions that open inquiry to scientific research and publication of scientific papers and theories allow others to identify errors, refine theories and reuse of data. He states that everyone will benefit from a more open information access.

The article reports on plagiarism in Cambridge, England physics laboratory. At least eight papers written between 1997 and 2001 by Yung Park, a materials scientist who worked at the University of Cambridge, England and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, are plagiarized, according to documents examined by the journal Nature. Park has also published at least two pairs of papers with significant overlap in separate journals. Four of the plagiarized papers have been removed from online journals, or marked as plagiarisms, following investigations into Park's publications by his former colleagues.

The author discusses aspects of maximizing the use of public research in Great Britain. He states that the most significant policy moves in open access in 2012 came from Research Councils UK (RCUK) and the Wellcome Trust. He mentions that from April 2013, papers arising from RCUK funding must be made free to access.

The article reports on the issue concerning the method used by post-publication peer review Faculty of 1000 (F1000) in ranking scholarly journals in London, England which relies on the scores awarded to individual scientific papers. It states that such scores could be changed based on the interests and enthusiasms of reviewers. However, F1000's associate editor Richard Grant says that these rankings provide valuable measure to authors complementary to journal league tables on citation impact.

The article focuses on the issue regarding assessment and funding of science-based disciplines in England. Accordingly, the Higher Education Founding Council for England has announced that the assessment and funding of science-based disciplines will in future be based on citation rates per paper, aggregated for each subject group at each institution. It is then pointed out that the changes in performance indicators always strongly influence individual and institutional behavior will no doubt become a staple of conversation. Discussions on citation practices are also discussed.

Discusses the issues related to intellectual freedom and providing free public access to scientific literature in London, England. Launch of the guidelines supporting free access to scientific literature and reserves the right of publishers to charge for the literature; Probability to cut back on publishing activities if open access continues; Willingness of authors to pay a certain amount to publish a paper.

Reports on the chemistry research conducted by students aged 16-17 at Westminster School in London, England. First research paper of the students that has been published.