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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.

Jon Bushell pays a visit to the Roman ruins at Silchester, which have captured the attention of several Fellows of the Royal Society.

New research published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface examines how the unique muscle arrangement of seahorse tails affects the mechanics of grasping, using in-silico simulations. Dr Dries Marzougui from Ghent University provides an overview of their work.

Ainsley Vinall highlights a collection of photographic slides from the 1958-59 Royal Society expedition to Southern Chile, recently added to the Society's collections.

Katherine Marshall looks at the life of Lady Margaret Huggins, and her significant work in spectroscopic astrophotography in the late nineteenth century.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Professor SA Sherif to tell us what publishing with the journal means to them.

Women undoubtedly read and worked in the Royal Society library long before they became eligible for election to the Fellowship in 1945, as Louisiane Ferlier explains.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Dr Mark A. Hanson to tell us what publishing with the journal means to him.

An exhibition at Lambeth Palace Library brings together some rare medieval concertina-fold almanacs, including one from the collections of the Royal Society, as Virginia Mills reports.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Dr Mathilde Massenet to tell us what publishing with the journal means to her.

The pioneering genius of Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton FRS can be seen in a recently catalogued archival collection of his personal and professional papers, as Vida Milovanovic reveals.