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Jon Bushell reports on an unnerving medical incident during the Royal Society’s Halley Bay Antarctic expedition in 1957.

The Royal Society has spent over 360 years publishing innovative, multi-disciplinary scientific research from around the world. In this blog, we share the top cited articles of 2024, showcasing the breadth and impact of the research published across the Royal Society's journals. You can also visit our publishing metrics page to learn more about the journals and the advantages of publishing open access.

Female baboons who have strong relationships with their fathers during their juvenile years lead longer adult lives than females who had weak paternal relationships. Professor Elizabeth Archie from the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame tells us more about a new study that showed that, in baboons, even small paternal contributions to offspring care can have lifelong consequences for female baboons.

The Royal Society declared that women were eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1922 but, as Keith Moore notes, a fallow period persisted for another two decades.

New registered report research published in Royal Society Open Science finds that the most popular iPhone games frequently broke many industry rules intended to protect consumers and children.

Bex J. Turner from the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University tells us more about a new study in Proceedings B that tested whether natural depth zonation patterns differed across geographies, and whether and how local human impacts might disrupt these natural zonation patterns. They found evidence of human-disrupted changes to benthic community depth zonation and that benthic community depth zonation did not always occur. Bex tells us more about the paper, the authors and their experience of publishing in the journal.

While cataloguing letters sent to physicist Joseph Larmor, Ana Brown finds Charles Chree, Superintendent of Kew Observatory, in a spot of bother at the office.

Did the Fellows gathered at the Royal Society in February 1738 really entertain an account of a mermaid? Well, not quite, as Rupert Baker discovers.

Ruby Seger-Bernard outlines how free Royal Society school resources and the Partnership Grants scheme support practical science teaching in UK schools.

Guest Editor Dr Rosalind Gillis (Deutsches Archäologiches Institut) tells us about her new theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B, ‘Unravelling domestication: multi-disciplinary perspectives on human and non-human relationships in the past, present and future’.

Royal Society President Sir Adrian Smith writes on why a long-term vision for science is needed in turbulent times.