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Spain's Prince of Asturias Foundation has announced that the scientific journals Science and Nature will receive its annual award for helping explain some of the world's most important discoveries.

This year's Prince of Asturias award for Communications and Humanities has been shared between the scientific publications Nature and Science. Jury chairman Manuela Olivencia made the announcement in Oviedo in Spain. This year's Prince of Asturias award for Communications and Humanities has been shared between the scientific publications Nature and Science. Science magazine is an American weekly that first appeared in New York in 1880. The British journal Nature was first published in 1869.

Jury chairman Manuela Olivencia made the announcement in Oviedo in Spain. Organizers said Wednesday that the jury meeting in the Spanish city of Oviedo selected the U.S. and the British scientific publications to receive the Asturias communication prize. The jury praised the journals as indispensable sources of universal reference material and a vanguard of scientific information.

The $67,000 prize will be presented at a formal ceremony in October. The Asturias Foundation, headed by Spanish Crown Prince Filipe, awards eight prizes every year in the fields including the arts, science, and sports. It is the 5th of this year's awards to be announced by the Prince of Asturias Foundation - created in 1980 in the name of the heir to the Spanish throne. Nominations are invited from around the world and a jury of experts selects the winner, who receives a statue designed by Miro and a cheque for 50 000 euros.

United States songwriting legend Bob Dylan on Wednesday also won Spain's 2007 Prince of Asturias arts prize for his ability to combine music, poetry and literature in songs that inspired millions to try to change the world. "Austere in form and profound in message, Dylan marries music and poetry in a body of work that has set an example and influenced the sentimental education of millions of people," the jury in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo said. Dylan, 66, is a "living legend of the history of popular music and the guiding star of a generation that dreamed of changing the world," it said.He is best known for ballads like "Blowin' in the Wind" that became anthems to the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movements in the United States.

The Prince of Asturias prize for literature has been won by Amos Oz. He is the first Israeli writer to be honoured by the twenty-six year old "Prince of Asturias foundation". Oz is not just a writer of 18 adult and children's books. He has also four hundred and fifty articles and essays on what can be loosely described as "the Israeli condition" to his credit, many have been translated abroad.For years a Labour Party member and close to new President Shimon Peres, he was once in the running to take the party leadership. He has been a supporter of a two-state peace solution with the Palestinians since 1967.

Spanish biologist Ginés Morata and his British colleague Peter Lawrence on Wednesday shared the 2007 Prince of Asturias Award for Science and Technology. The two biologists are awarded the top prize for their research work on aging and genetic diseases, the prize committee said. Their work is essential in understanding the process of human aging and genetic diseases that cause illnesses like cancer, the committee said.

Former US vice-president Al Gore will be also receiving Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation. Despite the awards, hopefully, Gore’s commitment to protect our planet will serve as an example of the values of respect for nature that all governments should promote if we want to see most of the existing beautiful areas of the Earth preserved. This politician-turned-activist after has devoted his efforts in the past years to raise awareness about global warming and to work in defense of the environment.

Other Americans, such as Woody Allen and writer Paul Auster, have also been recipients of this prestigious Spanish award in the past. This year Al Gore is also nominated for the Noble Prize in the peace category, but we will have to wait until October to know if he is the winner.