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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'Parentalia', a manuscript in the archives of the Royal Society, features several members of the illustrious Wren family, as Hirra Ateeq explains. This year is the 300th anniversary of the death of ...

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 ...

September this year saw Professor Bernadine Idowu’s illustrious career rocket to new heights by her recognition as newly minted Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of West London.

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 ...

Transforming our understanding of how we make, use, reuse and recycle products will be the mission for Professor Mark Miodownik, who has been appointed the new Royal Society Professor for Public ...

A business park outside Harlow, in Essex, was the scene for one of the transformational discoveries of the 20th century – Sir Charles Kao, a Hong Kong citizen working at the now defunct Standard ...

The Royal Society has today published its recommendations for a radical reform of maths education from early years and throughout compulsory education, to address the growing need for data skills in ...