Professor Radha Charan Gupta is the first Indian to be awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize for the History of Mathematics. The award will be conferred at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to be held in Hyderabad, India during 19–27 August 2010.

All participants will be entered into a prize draw and for the winner British Council will donate £250 to a charity of his/ her choice.

Biodiversity is the main theme of the Green Week 2010. It is the largest annual conference on European environment policy. The conference and exhibition will take place on June 1-4 in Brussels, Belgium.

The first Europlanet Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement with Planetary Science has been awarded to Dr Jean Lilensten of the Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble, France. He will be presented with his award of 4000 Euros at the European Planetary Science Congress 2010, which will take place at the Angelicum Centre – Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy, from 19 – 24 September 2010.

April 15 is the official launching date of the web platform named ForWiki. The foresight specialists and practitioners around the world are welcomed to get an account and contribute with articles to the development of this platform. The event is taking place at Bucharest during the workshop ‘Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki’, coordinated by Dr. Philine Warnke.

Recently, a few Romanian and foreign experts from Europe, Asia and U.S. gathered in Bucharest to launch the first wiki platform for the global community of foresight experts: ForWiki. The international online platform - in English - has been developed by the Romanian foresight specialists, as a result of the project "Quality and Leadership for Romanian Higher Education". The launching event took place at the workshop "Jointly Shaping and Launching the Foresight Wiki".  We have tried to find out more details about the subject from two of the participants: Dr. Philine Warnke (Germany), workshop coordinator, and Dr. Ziauddin Sardar, writer, journalist, editor (Futures, multidisciplinary journal published by Elsevier) and professor at The City University, London, United Kingdom. Tomorrow's science and transdisciplinarity, the attitude toward future, the role of history in the study of the future, and what is to be done for shaping a future closer to our desires - these were the topics discussed. Finally, both discussions have the very same conclusion: the group intelligence is shaping the future.

Although the theory of evolution is widely accepted in science, whether it comes to biology, medicine or psychology, public opinion still holds some prejudices and imprecisions related to this process. These are mainly caused by philosophical and religious views of the world, but sometimes it amounts to an inaccurate teaching of the theory of evolution or reflecting it in the media. On the one hand, the cause may be the ignorance, but on the other hand, there are certain misunderstandings. Some of it will be discussed next.

Within the Solar System, surfaces of the atmosphere less bodies are strongly influenced by factors often associated with the expression "space weathering" (*). Recent scientific evidence has shown that the aging process surface due to space weather has a very strong momentum (of the order of one million years) relative to the age of the solar system (about 4.5 billion years).

"Science and journalism - friend or foe?" gathered at the British Council's genuine friends of knowledge. They represent many fields including media, IT, architecture, education, psychology, theology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, linguistics and climate. The story of the event continues now with the second part, and this precedes the one dedicated to few of the email questions and aspects addressed by friends of the Science Newspaper.

The celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 involved 148 countries, a number that confirms that the IYA2009 network is the largest ever in science. Activities and events from these participating nations paint a picture of professional and amateur astronomers bringing the Universe down to Earth through countless projects, opening the eyes of the public to the wonders above.