Grant giving is the primary means by which the Society supports outstanding science and scientists, providing fellowships and grants to researchers in the UK and internationally. Royal Society funding ...

Raymond Casey was a geologist and an international authority in Mesozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology. By studying layers of rock that date back to the Mesozoic Era, a period of geological time ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chemical industry should defossilise by transitioning to alternative sources of carbon, according to a report by the Royal Society. Catalysing Change: Defossilising the chemical industry sets out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...