Responding to the Chancellor's Autumn Budget announcement, Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, said: ...

The Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation have announced the outstanding scientists receiving Royal Society Wolfson ...

The Royal Society announces the six shortlisted books and the judging panel for the Young People's Book Prize 2026.

Discover our collection catalogues, digital resources as well as blog posts, videos and images. Our print store is also available here. The Royal Society supports activities in the history of science ...

An International Commission was convened by the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine, with the participation of academies of sciences and medicine ...

Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. This year’s cohort includes pioneers ...

Could you introduce yourself and your research? I’m finishing my PhD at New York University. My current project, ‘Smallpox and Slavery: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Enslaved People's Lives in ...

Hirra Ateeq maps out the contributions of unsung local surveyors, instrument-makers and mathematicians to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Following its establishment as an Indian Ocean ...

To tackle plastic pollution and its negative consequences prevention is, and should remain, the priority. Over-emphasis on clean-up interventions could divert attention away from more systemic ...

Tech companies, researchers and governments should do more to remove barriers and engage disabled people in the design of digital assistive tools and services, to maximise the transformative benefits ...

The father of metamaterials and ‘invisibility cloak’ pioneer, Professor Sir John Pendry FRS, has been awarded the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal. He is recognised ...