In 2015, GM crops were grown in 28 countries and on 179.7 million hectares – that is over 10% of the world’s arable land and equivalent to seven times the land area of the UK. The USA, Brazil and ...

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 ...

Today Defra has published a consultation on the new Land Use Framework for England which is an important first step for delivering much needed join-up between different land use related policies. 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 ...

A high-level group of hydrogen experts in a workshop convened by the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering has proposed that the UK government should commit to a comprehensive roadmap for the ...

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 ...

Fifteen entrepreneurs, senior scientists and business leaders have been awarded a place on the Royal Society’s Entrepreneur in Residence scheme. They will help translate cutting-edge research into ...

'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 ...