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Ten Alps Plc to launch online
Ten Alps Plc to launch online.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 1915D Ten Alps PLC 11 September 2008 \n \nTen Alps Plc\n('Ten Alps' or 'the Company')\n\n\nTen Alps subsidiary Brook Lapping to launch online Science Channel \nwith the Science Museum and The Royal Institution\n\nTen Alps Plc, the factual media company, announces that Brook Lapping Productions, its wholly owned subsidiary has teamed up with the Science Museum and the Royal Institution to develop an online science channel to be launched in early 2009.\nThe venture, which has been named the Newton Project, brings together three of the leading bodies in their respective fields to provide a place for scientists and the public to share research, ideas and discoveries.\n\n\nThe Newton Project will include:\n\n\n\nTopical stories and debate from the Science Museum - including the Antenna Live exhibitions that regularly break the latest science news stories. \n\n\nCutting edge science research and lectures from the Royal Institution - ranging from nano technology to the culinary alchemy of Heston Blumenthal. \n\n\nEvents from the Science Museum's Dana Centre - from comedy from the Punk Scientists to a live link Q&A with the surgeon during a kidney transplant. \n\n\n\n\nThe international reputations of the partners will create a global, community-based science channel committed to 'real' science at a time of growing demand for a deeper understanding of the scientific issues that affect everyday lives and covering topics such as the environment, energy or research at the most basic level of atomic particles.\n\nThe channel will be free to users - funded by advertising, sponsorship and partnerships with other organisations committed to the public understanding of science. \nAdditionally, the Newton Project will provide users with online video, social networking, blogs and user generated content to provide fully interactive science news and learning.\nThe Science Museum, respected throughout the world has 2.7 million visitors through its doors each year, and over 12 million website visitors. The Royal Institution has produced 14 Nobel Prize winners and has a 200 y...