“Chemistry can’t be viewed as some long, glorious, progressive march to an enlightened future. It came from everyday people, living their lives by their own understanding of the world, and just trying ...

Renowned microbiologist, Professor Bonnie Bassler, has been named this year’s recipient of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal – the world’s oldest scientific prize. She is among 27 Royal Society medal ...

Nine outstanding researchers have been awarded the prestigious Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships which support outstanding mid-career research leaders in the UK. Selected from more than 280 ...

The new Prime Minister has merged the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology into a new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade. In response, Paul Nurse, the President of the ...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that: science flourishes when based on reliable evidence and rigorous testing. It is tested through experiments, observation, challenge, reasoning and open ...

In this blog, Guest Editors Sarah Brosnan, Stephanie Meirmans, Maurine Neiman, Guadalupe Peralta and Shalene Singh-Shepherd discuss the inspiration behind The other 1% Special Feature in Proceedings B ...

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 ...

Looking back on the Royal Society journals’ progress over 2025, I am pleased to report that we maintained open access output at over 70% across the research journals, and that helped to form the basis ...

The Royal Society has launched an online map to celebrate historical women in the UK who have made a positive contribution to science and is asking for the public’s help to map science history.

A portrait of mathematician and broadcaster Professor Hannah Fry commissioned by the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy, has been unveiled on the final episode of Sky Arts Portrait ...

Science is built on integrity and trustworthiness so when a flood of low-quality or fraudulent papers enter the system unchecked, trust in science is damaged. Bernhard A Sabel at the Otto-von-Guericke ...

Techniques to reflect an additional small portion of sunlight back into space could help cool the planet if deployed globally, but they cannot address the full range of climate impacts or replace ...