Faridah Laffan
History of science
5 mins
Bones on plates
Faridah Laffan explains how the illustrations of William Buckland's Kirkdale Cave discoveries were transformed from brushstrokes to engraved plates.
Louisiane Ferlier
History of science
4 mins
Around the globe
Louisiane Ferlier reports on a new exhibition in the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris, a collaboration between the Académie des sciences and the Royal Society.
Louisiane Ferlier
History of science
5 mins
Benjamin Franklin in the age of AI
Louisiane Ferlier reports on the launch of a Featured NotebookLM on the science of Benjamin Franklin, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.
Dr. Jasmeen Kanwal
History of science
3 mins
Grandma COBOL’s endlessly growing tree
The project of making technology more accessible is a self-perpetuating process with boundless impact.
Dr Rebecca Chadwick
News and views
2 mins
Dr Shruti Mandhani: Motherhood, materials and making space
What material gets thicker when stretched and is found in both cat skin and Christmas trees?
Ciara Doyle
Publishing
5 mins
Envisioning the future of cross-disciplinary science: announcing the winners of the Interface 20th anniversary competition
As part of Interface's 20th anniversary celebrations, a competition was launched inviting authors to submit a Perspective exploring where the field of interdisciplinary research will be in 20 years' time. In this blog post, we speak with the authors of the winning article, 'Decoding microbial signatures: an interdisciplinary call in a warming world'.
Dr Fedir Korobeynikov
Publishing
3 mins
Survival through transformation: towards adaptive security
A new Science, Society and Policy article in Royal Society Open Science proposes an adaptive security model for complex systems, addressing the limitations of traditional security paradigms in sociotechnical systems. Lead author Dr Fedir Korobeynikov tells us about their work.
Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS
History of science
3 mins
Looking back, moving forward
It took a long time to elect the first female Fellows, the Royal Society is still far from parity in its Fellowship, and all of us have a part to play – across society or the Society – in making sure we continue to move forward.
Ainsley Vinall
History of science
6 mins
The lost theodolite
What became of Jesse Ramsden’s 'Great Theodolite’, commissioned by the Royal Society in 1784? Ainsley Vinall investigates.
Surayya Johar
Publishing
1 mins
Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition – 2025 Winner: Gayathri Kondakath
We speak to the overall winner of the 2025 Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition, Gayathri Kondakath, for the research article Caterpillars suppress nocifensive behaviours during the quiescent ‘sphinx’ state
Surayya Johar
Publishing
2 mins
Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition – 2025 finalists: Chase Brownstein
We speak to Chase Brownstein, runner-up of the 2025 Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition for the research paper Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact
Surayya Johar
Publishing
4 mins
Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition – 2025 finalists: Arlo Hinckley
We speak to Arlo Hinckley, runner-up of the 2025 Biology Letters Early Career Researcher Competition for the research paper 'Uncovering new lineages in the Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) with museum mitogenomics'.