One of the great international science associations, the Royal Society has a not-too-bad website. They have some unique science news http://royalsociety.org/news/ and also a list of public events if you happen to live in the UK http://royalsociety.org/Events-Diary/ and for the rest of us, videos that can be watched online http://royalsociety.org/royalsociety.tv/
Natural philosophers then began meeting in the mid-1640s to discuss the new philosophy of promoting knowledge of the natural world through observation and experiment, to witness experiments and discuss what we would now call scientific topics. This is the origin of this society. They have been discussing this at that time! Cool, isn't it?