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Heading to Cell Bio 2025 this December? Royal Society Publishing is excited to join the global cell biology community once again for one of the most inspiring gatherings in the field.  

The work of Sheina Marshall FRS on plankton and coral reefs revealed new dimensions of the ocean’s complexity, as Eloise Barber explains.

New research published in Royal Society Open Science presents a novel species of sea anemone belonging to the genus Paracalliactis, discovered in the deep waters off the Pacific coast of Japan. Professor Akihiro Yoshikawa, from Kumamoto University, tells us more about the recent discovery of Paracalliactis tsukisome.

As part of our ongoing scope review, Open Biology is pleased to share some updates that strengthen the journal’s identity and clarify our remit within the life sciences.

Katherine Marshall shares some colourful Christmas gift ideas from the Royal Society Print Shop.

To celebrate LGBTQ+ in STEM day, we’ve spoken to members of the Staff Pride Network, Fellows’ Pride network, the Royal Society Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and the Diversity and Inclusion team, for their reflections on the day and what it meant to them to march in Pride.

An invitation to join the online audience for the Royal Society's ‘Women in Science: historical perspectives’ conference on Tuesday 18 November.

We’re switching our eight subscription journals to a Subscribe to Open model. Royal Society Publishing Director, Rod Cookson, explains why and how.

Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘A solid base for scaling up: the structure of numeration systems’. In this blog, Guest Editors Andrea Bender, Jean-Charles Pelland, Simon Greenhill and Mary Walworth tell us how this issue came about, and about some of the important research highlighted in this issue.

Science is built on integrity and trustworthiness so when a flood of low-quality or fraudulent papers enter the system unchecked, trust in science is damaged. Bernhard A Sabel at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany and Dan Larhammar at Uppsala University, Sweden present the ‘Stockholm Declaration’ for the ‘Reformation of Science Publishing’ published in Royal Society Open Science.

Why did the Royal Society reject a 1932 scientific paper on the use of X-rays to stimulate the retina? Louisiane Ferlier investigates.