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Many Wrens

The power of sound

Registered Reports Community Feedback - a new initiative

One in fifty

The first lady’s comet

How the Namaqua Sandgrouse defies the desert with its water-carrying capabilities

Archived papers

The power of peer networking for improving STEM faculty job applications

Years in the making

Theme issue publishing at the Royal Society

Science in the (re)making

Making and breaking symmetries in mind and life

Biographical Memoirs Vol. 74: reproduction, replication and resistance

Modern perspectives in Proof Theory

Disordered eating

Octopus and Royal Society Open Science

Degrees Wedgwood

Recognition for reviewers

Methods Matter

You are what you eat?

Shelf life

Every cloud

Pioneering women

Who’s who in scientific publishing?

Earthquakes

Theoretical Chemistry in the 20th Century

New streamlined application process with plenty of support to secure up to £3,000 of funding for your investigative Partnership Grants project

Magnetism and Madras

Unnoticed Letters

Meet animal behaviour expert Yitzchak Ben Mocha

Three men on a reef

Microbial ecology for engineering biology

Celebrating the most cited papers from 2021

Comet tales

Tomorrow’s climate scientists attend a mock select committee

Food, glorious food

Fighting the impacts of human-induced environmental change

Colours of the seasons

COP15 – A few small steps and a road map for the journey ahead

Multidisciplinary approaches to the Amazonian past

Goodly printing

Welcoming Richard Dixon as the new Editor-in-Chief of Philosophical Transactions B

Open access: how we are transforming?

Busby’s schoolboys

The next frontier in open science: transparency in funding processes

H-mode Transition and Pedestal Studies in Fusion Plasmas

Meet Jane Hillston, Proceedings A’s first female Editor-In-Chief

Celebrating the most popular papers from 2022

COP27 - a lack of ambition

Rants and ramblings

Rewarding peer review

What would you do if you had £3000 for a research project?

On your marks!

Despite COVID: showcasing new research in evolutionary biology from academic caregivers in the middle of a pandemic

Davy’s vaulting ambition

Moving house

Aspirin: the wonder drug against cancer?

Air, land, and sea—climate change and past Fellows of the Royal Society

International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM

Being transgender in STEM

Reflections on trans identities and anti-science

Water under the bridge

Solving the science gender gap?

In the footsteps of dinosaurs: using artificial intelligence to analyse fossil tracks

Trouble at the Mint

Empire of learning

Preying dangerously: lizards vs spiders

Reading between the lines

Open Access Week – highlights from Open Biology

Jotello Festiri Soga

Fostering data sharing practices in pursuit of climate justice

Complex rheology in biological systems

William Anderson Soga

Buried treasures

Modelling the gut microbiota

Reflections on the 2022 Pairing Scheme

Changing working lives

Young student researchers investigate ‘What animals and plants share our world?’ as part of their Partnership Grants project

John Ruskin and ‘heart-sight’

Making peer review more inclusive and fairer: transparency, measurement and confrontation

Pursuing portraiture

Rapidly reviewing Registered Reports: A retrospective

The sound of science

The role and reputation of preprints

Predatory journals: how to avoid being prey?

Understanding colour vision in arthropods: Q&A with Ayse Yilmaz

Associate Editor from China joins the Proceedings B board

Haunting the shelves

Trivial pursuits

Champion outstanding scientists of every background and role

A bit of binary

New tool in mapping axolotl development

A song of Schiehallion

The challenges of modelling real-life epidemics

Admit one

Science at night

Ruskin's perspectives

Why publish open access in Proceedings B?

On the scent

Can we build a more desirable information environment?

Call for proposals: organise a scientific meeting and guest-edit an influential Royal Society journal

Plenty more fish

Now for the space weather forecast

Transparent Peer Review on Biology Letters and Proceedings A

A few pointers for a good review

Developing artificial afferents for tactile sensing

Why we need data-literate citizens

Certified winners

Pride and STEM: Positive changes, but further to go

Face masking and COVID-19: potential effects of variolation on transmission dynamics

Pride and STEM: Looking back on 50 years

Danger money

Digital technology and the planet: Progress and perspectives on a data-driven net zero transition

Oldest book news

Partnership Grants - sometimes you win and sometimes you luge…

Time-keeping and decision-making in living cells

A brief history of astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology 1945-2000

The Assessment Regime of the Future

Science looks good on the catwalk

Making Computer Science education relevant, engaging and accessible

Better education, better productivity

Mini-Livers on a Chip

Paper machines

Building a healthy online information environment

My Guest Editor experience: Q&A with Dr Kate Hendry

Tomorrow's climate scientists - monitoring air pollution

Education, like History, is complicated – and that’s ok

What actually makes us happy?

The importance of different thinking

Atoll protected

Foul ink

Science for a Resilient Future

Top 10 reasons to submit to Biology Letters (and be cheerful)

Perkin's purple

What is synthetic data, and how can it advance research and development?

Partners in paint

High-ranking naked mole-rats

Puppies in distress?

Flying start

Introducing new Proceedings B Associate Editors in ecology

Why resilience is vital for the sustainability of people and planet – and what chemistry can do

Moles and diamonds

Regional Absorptive Capacity: The skills dimension

Lady Jane's letter

Proteins, dinosaurs, and pulsars—Biographical Memoirs Volume 72

Charleton eclectic

Intergroup conflict across taxa

Tomorrow's climate scientists from Corbridge Middle School investigate ways to prevent urban flooding

Illuminating archives

Urban environmental change drives clover evolution worldwide: Q&A with Marc Johnson

Fiery chapters

Are you co-reviewing?

How libraries can fight disinformation

Writing a review—the do’s and don’ts

Elephant on the Moon

Science sees better with a global perspective

Authorship: contributions, disputes, and misconduct

Unconscious bias revisited

Dish of the day

Publishing open access with us is about to get even easier

Designing filters inspired by animal noses

Paper trail

Seeing is believing: YAP dynamics in living embryos

Philosophical Transactions B – highlighting recent influential theme issues

Biology Letters – an open access journey

Out and Proud in STEM

What became of Watts?

Why certain topics fall victim to misinformation

When art meets science

Zoo views

The role of SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic

Proceedings B Special Feature on animal locomotion

Revisiting a trage-bee

How search engines affect the information we find

What are you looking at?

We need to support Core Maths qualifications to realise young people’s ambitions

Cat brains and replication studies

How to regulate misinformation

Powders of sympathy

Why we need to talk about the online information environment

The circle of Willis

We are not powerless in the face of online misinformation

Halfway to open

Philosophical Transactions A: A Year in Review

Virus–virus interactions—can we predict the outcome of a Covid-19 and flu interaction?

Redacting the Hamburg hydra

Gems in the archives

Christmas trees

Welcoming new Associate Editors to Royal Society Open Science

G7 – what has it meant for science?

Disability history and the Royal Society

Synergistic tomographic image reconstruction

Coronavirus and surfaces

The other Somerset House

Evolving publishing metrics

Open Biology – celebrating a decade of publishing

On this day

Introducing newly appointed Proceedings B Associate Editors

10 years of Open Biology: Q&A with our first authors – part two

10 years of Open Biology: Q&A with our first authors – part three

10 years of Open Biology: Q&A with our first authors

Colour wheel

10 years of Open Biology: Editors’ highlights

Half full or half empty?

How do bird songs evolve over time?

Craftsmanship and spectacle in London

Bushy tales

Science, engineering, and technology: essential partners on the road to net zero

A Modern View on Turing’s Theory of Pattern Formation

Tomorrow's climate scientists - living walls

Ornithological opposites

West African medical knowledge, the slave trade and the Royal Society

Transformative agreements with Royal Society Publishing

Biology Letters and Open Access in 2021

Building structural equity with Science, Society and Policy

Grains of truth

The move to fully Open Access – what about the author?

Why Open Access?

COVID-19: science, history, culture and imagination

Meeting my heroes

Biographical Memoirs Volume 71 – Beyond the Lab

Counting lives

Light and Airy

Identity and open peer review

Preprints and identity in peer review

Co-reviewing as a way to open up peer review

Sleight of hand

Collecting gender data to address bias in peer review

Research culture and identity in peer review

Axes of diversity and peer review

Peer review survey: reporting your experiences

Certified success

Meet our new Preprint Editor

The disputed sound of the aurora borealis – winner of the Notes and Records Essay Award 2021

Fellow architects

Sylva and grey

Introducing Proceedings B Associate Editors from India

On the Brunel trail

Reflections of a House of Lords Select Committee Specialist Adviser

Depicting data

Resilient food production, climate change and the environment - a triple challenge

Biological anthroengineering

Counting bones

Reviews and Biology Letters

Volcanic venture

The roots of photography

Responding to decision letters: a how-to guide for new authors

Are dogs sensitive to human mental states?

Computer pioneers

Preprints and Proceedings B – the story so far

Paper dragons

Cloud perspectives

Embracing pandemic uncertainty in science, society and policy

The jellyfish debate

Wings and things

Welcome to Biology Letters’ New Editorial Board Members

Reflections on the 2021 Pairing Scheme

Dinosaurs and brains

Advancing bioinformatics research in Latin America

Head of steam

Suction-assisted grabbing by elephants

Early man cave

Preventing malaria with purpose-built houses

Penning puns

Welcoming new Associate Editors to Royal Society Open Science

Jewels of the sea

Our transition to Open Access

The impact of future ocean acidification on coral reef survival

Blogspawn

An upgrade to our Picture Library

Social support and maternal-child health

St Lubbock's Days

More than fun: enrichment activities rooted in contemporary science

A spoonful of sugar

Royal Society Open Science welcomes PCI Registered Reports

Interdisciplinary approaches to dynamics in biology

Partnership Grants - engaging in scientific research

Peer review during the pandemic – thank you!

Wonderful museums

Biographical Memoirs Volume 70: Discovery and Innovation

Science, Society and Policy in Royal Society Open Science

A China-UK dialogue on artificial intelligence

Snapping scientists

Volcanic vistas

How is COVID-19 evolving?

Should We Trust Computers?

Funding Victorian science

What might the future of the UK countryside look like?

A new approach to regulating genetic technologies

Partnership Grants - building links between local schools

Something old, something blue

Proceedings B introduces Biological Applications subject category

Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry

Science decade

A day in the life of an applied mathematician: Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

State of the planet - how human activity is driving climate change

A day in the life of a scientist: Dr Sabrina Simoncelli

Perfect copy

Partnership Grants - how one project developed virtually

Carbon dioxide detection in biological systems

Mars attracts

The political brain

What do we know about Long Covid?

Off the charts

Celebrating Chinese New Year cuisine with the help of physics

What does the UK-EU deal mean for science?

Wildlife trade

Meet the editor: Stephen Hyde

Welcome aboard - introducing more new Proceedings B Associate Editors

Standing on the boulders of giants

Why we know vaccines work

Bird brains

Welcome aboard - introducing new Proceedings B Associate Editors

Trends on students and staff with disabilities in STEM

Computing at School

No tar, Bishop

Philosophical Transactions A: Looking back at 2020

Lost and found

Relaunching the Lisa Jardine Grant for 2021

Shed a little (candle)light

The poison of Empire

An equitable ‘Agricultural Transition’

Crowns and sceptres

Partnership Grants - supporting students with SEND

2020: A Year of Read & Publish

Deck the walls

Nobel ambitions

Science in history

Partnership Grants - undertaking STEM projects in COVID times

Partnership Grants - how lockdown enabled us to create new partnerships

Ready, steady, go: how many hot dogs is it possible to eat in 10 minutes?

Digging for Dorothea

Can Heliconius butterflies help us better understand evolutionary novelty?

Ice Giant Systems as the Next Step in our Exploration of the Solar System

The art of the printscape

Unsung heroes in nursing and care homes

Image enhancement

Update from the party conferences

Reflecting on 2020: Registered Reports, rapid review, COVID-19 and emerging scientific talent

West Africans and the history of smallpox inoculation: Q&A with Elise A. Mitchell

Opportunity for all: ensuring equitable access to content and the publishing process

The drive to open