Blog posts and articles from the Royal Society
With millions of cases around the world, our understanding of the acute illness caused by Covid-19 has improved enormously. But it is now clear that…
By Professor Charles Bangham FMedSci FRS
19 February 2021
7 min read
On 24 December, the UK and EU reached a deal. Sir Richard Catlow, Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society outlines the implications…
By Sir Richard Catlow FRS
11 February 2021
5 min read
Vaccines have helped to control many diseases that caused widespread suffering in the past and they are likely to be our hope of controlling the…
By Professor Charles Bangham FMedSci FRS
29 January 2021
8 min read
Ellen Embleton admires the watercolours of Royal Society portraits created by copyist George Perfect Harding, and now housed in the Library's…
By Ellen Embleton
02 March 2021
4 min read
The Mars Perseverance rover is the latest in a long line of attempts to map and understand the Red Planet. Rupert Baker finds some earlier examples in…
By Rupert Baker
23 February 2021
5 min read
Frankie Chappell looks at the maps produced by explorers and whalers such as William Scoresby FRS, and compares them with the ways in which indigenous…
By Frankie Chappell
16 February 2021
5 min read
Keith Moore finds evidence in the Royal Society's archive and book collections for humankind’s inconsistent attitudes towards wildlife.
By Keith Moore
09 February 2021
3 min read
Katherine Marshall looks at the first recorded descriptions of the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, published in the 1690s in the Philosophical…
By Katherine Marshall
02 February 2021
3 min read
Professors Paul Upchurch and Seralynne Vann share their personal experiences and perspectives on new research, commissioned by the Royal Society, on…
By Professor Seralynne Vann
21 January 2021
6 min read