The Royal Society’s fundamental purpose is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science, and to encourage the development and use of science, for the benefit of humanity and the good of the ...

Jon Bushell looks at the Royal Society's portraits of Edmond Halley, and a diagram of Halley's curious model for the internal structure of the Earth. RS.9284, with a close-up of the paper in Halley’s ...

At a meeting this evening of the Royal Society, Fellows agreed on the need to stand up for science and for scientists around the world in the face of the growing challenges science faces. Concern was ...

Royal Society report says, where geology, industry and regulation align, natural hydrogen could be a viable low-carbon resource Naturally occurring hydrogen could become a valuable component in the ...

Seventy one exceptional researchers have been awarded funding through the Royal Society’s flagship early career schemes. Each of the schemes will provide the freedom and flexibility to pursue ...

We welcome short contributions from researchers which represent their views on pressing, understudied or just interesting ‘open questions’ in their fields, and thus to share their perspective with ...

Can you introduce your study and explain what it is about? You may remember playing Cat’s Cradle as a child—but did you know that making string figures is a practice found across cultures worldwide?

The Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation have announced the third round of outstanding scientists receiving Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships and Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowships in 2025 ...

Keith Moore looks at the fascinating life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writer, traveller and champion of the practice of smallpox inoculation. Passing the travel section of my local bookshop, it was ...

This animation and briefing on making better decisions in groups is based on the research work of Dr Dan Bang and Professor Chris Frith FRS, (Making better decisions in groups, Dan Bang and Chris ...

Scientific research, and the innovations that build on it, have transformed the world. Some of the outcomes are highly visible – for example new treatments for disease or new consumer electronic ...

Open access refers to the open, available publication of research papers so that anyone can access them. Traditionally research was only available to those who could gain access to it via a library ...