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Published online 28 May 2008 | Nature 453, 568-569 (2008) | doi:10.1038/453568a
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Venerable institute gets a refit
Britain's Royal Institution reopens for business.
The oldest independent research body in the world, Britain's Royal Institution, has been committed since 1799 to “diffusing science for the common purposes of life”. But some of the common purposes of life have changed in the past two centuries.
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