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Some prints in the Royal Society's picture collection - and even one of the oil paintings - are not who we thought they were, as Ainsley Vinall explains.

Join Royal Society Open Science's birthday party to celebrate the history and successes of the last decade.

Royal Society Open Science has commissioned a new collection of papers exploring the impact of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and Big Data within science and society.

The Royal Society funded a series of expeditions in the 1890s to investigate the structure of coral reefs – but all did not go to plan, as Jon Bushell discovers.

We look back on the impact of the Royal Society Open Access Equity scheme’s first year, and speak with one of our authors about their experience.

Danilo Giacometti and Glenn Tattersall at Brock University explore thermoregulatory strategies of a fossorial salamander in their new research published in Royal Society Open Science.   

Keith Moore looks at examples of how authors have used science to inspire their stories, co-opting real-life scientists into their work.

A recent study in Open Biology investigates the distinct roles of glutamate transporters in retinal signal processing and bipolar cell responses in zebrafish.

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. 

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.

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.