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This week in Prague, approximately 3000 scientists and astronomers will debate the status of Pluto as a planet. The International Astronomers Union will clearly define a planet. In addition, the union is forced to downgrade or maintain the status of 14 other astronomical bodies.

Physics Today magazine, created in 1948, is the flagship publication of The American Institute of Physics. It is provided to 130,000 members of twelve physics societies. Famous physicists of the last 50 years have written for the magazine, including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Richard Feynman. The magazine provides a historical resource of events associated to physics, including debunking.

Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals. The journal is peer-reviewed, is published weekly, and has a print subscriber base of around 130,000. Because institutional subscriptions and online access serve a larger audience, its estimated readership is one million people. The major focus of the journal is publishing important original scientific research and research reviews, but Science also publishes science-related news, opinions on science policy and other matters of interest to scientists and others who are concerned with the wide implications of science and technology.

New Science Digestis a daily news service that features breaking news on new scientific discoveries from around the world. Additionally, many useful science related links are listed. Readers are encouraged to post comments and suggest related and interesting science links.