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A new J. R. Soc. Interface paper examines the wider possible social effects of violent conflict in human prehistory, specifically in terms of population distribution. We spoke to the lead author, Dr Dániel Kondor at Complexity Science Hub Vienna, to find out more. 

Professor Sir Ian Chapman, the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, is a leader in the field of fusion energy. Together with his co-editors, Professor Sir Steven Cowley and Professor Howard Wilson, Ian has guest edited a new Philosophical Transactions A theme issue entitled ‘Delivering Fusion Energy – The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)’. In this blog post, Ian outlines the progress made in fusion science so far, and the motivation for this recent theme issue.

Eloise Barber tells the story of Sir Ludwig Guttmann FRS, a pioneer in the world of disability sports and founder of the Stoke Mandeville Games.

A new collection of Royal Society Biographical Memoirs celebrates the scientists who initiated the study of physiological mechanisms at the cellular level, uncovering the biophysical basis for how animal movement is initiated.

Louisiane Ferlier introduces the first international collaborative exhibition put on by the Royal Society Library team, jointly curated with the French Académie des sciences.

Mohammadamin Saraei, a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, has published a paper in a recent theme issue of Philosophical Transactions B. The study looks at behaviour during an Islamic congregational ritual in order to understand how coordinated actions are occurring. 

Dr. Georgia Ward-Fear tells us about the research published in her new Proceedings B paper, a study that used conditioned taste aversion (CTA) in northern Australia to train free-ranging crocodiles to avoid toxic cane toads.

Royal Society Open Science is pleased to welcome each of its new editors this year. Here we hear from three recent additions to the Science, Society and Policy section. 

How did a solar eclipse in May 1919 help to prove Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity? Vida Milovanovic tells the story.

Rupert Baker retraces the footsteps of James David Forbes FRS, who travelled to Norway in 1851 on a glacier-hunting expedition.

Katherine Marshall discovers a beautiful seventeenth-century treatise on petrified wood in the collections of the Royal Society Library.