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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open access refers to the open, available publication of research papers so that anyone can access them. Traditionally research was only available to those who could gain access to it via a library ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 22 March 2005, Biology Letters was launched as the seventh journal in the Royal Society’s portfolio in response to the need from the community for short and rapid communications. Originally created ...