The Short Industry Fellowships scheme is open to talented researchers, especially early career researchers, in academia or industry in the UK. The aims of the scheme are to: Support mobility of ...

Teachers from the Royal Society Schools Network have identified various video excerpts (mini-clips) that can be used as lesson resources to help explore the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ...

Spencer Barrett is an evolutionary biologist and a worldwide authority on the ecology and genetics of plant reproduction. His work has focused on increasing our understanding of how flowers evolve and ...

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 ...

The Royal Society welcomes the government’s commitment to reviewing education as an early priority in its programme, but the initial call for evidence lacked the ambition required to make the changes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...