As announced on Nautilus in July, Nature is a 2007 winner of the prestigious Principe de Asturias award established by His Royal Highness Heir to the throne of Spain. The Principe de Asturias award is the best-known cultural prize in the Spanish-speaking community. The awards honour individuals, groups or institutions whose creative work or research represents a significant contribution to universal culture in the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanistic fields. Nature shares the 2007 Award for Communication and Humanities with the journal Science.

Annette Thomas, Chief Executive of Macmillan and Philip Campbell, Editor of Nature, went to Spain last week to collect the award. Philip wrote a blog post for In The Field about his journey. "Would I remember to bow to the royals in the right order? (I did.) Would I trip as I climbed the stairs onto the platform? (I didn’t.) " Read his full account here.

El Pais provides some lovely photographs of the event in a picture gallery: one of Philip here and here, Annette, receiving their awards.