Future ocean resources: metal-rich minerals and genetics
Discover our "Future of Oceans" project which holds various marine resources from deep sea mining,…
News and resources
Explore the latest work from the Royal Society, from news stories and blog posts to policy statements and projects. You can also find resources for teachers and history of science researchers.
News
Royal Society announces Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships and Wolfson Visiting Fellowships 2024 awardees
The Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation have announced the first round of outstanding scientists receiving Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships and Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowships in 2024. ...
Royal Society to take Summer Science Exhibits on tour
A number of hand-picked Summer Science exhibits are set to go on tour for the first time this year, the Royal Society has announced....
Royal Society announces judging panel for 2024 Trivedi Science Book Prize
The Royal Society has today unveiled the judging panel, selected from the worlds of science, culture and the media, for this year’s Trivedi Science Book Prize. ...
Publications
Summary of visa costs analysis (2024)
2024 update to the Royal Society's 2019 and 2021 analyses of upfront immigration costs in the UK and 17 other leading science nations....
The world together solving the antibiotic emergency
Comments from Sir Mark Walport, Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society, on an event titled ‘The world together solving the antibiotic emergency’. This event was held at the...
Red teaming large language models (LLMs) for resilience to scientific disinformation
The Royal Society and Humane Intelligence co-hosted a red teaming event to scrutinise and bring attention to the potential vulnerabilities and resilience to scientific disinformation in large language models (LLM’s)....
Recent projects
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Soil structure and its benefits
The Soil structure and its benefits report sets out evidence for improving crop productivity…
Data management and use: Governance in the 21st century - a British Academy and Royal Society project
The British Academy and the Royal Society are carrying out a project examining new uses of data…
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
The Royal Society has researched Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and their use, development, and…
Animate materials
The Royal Society has launched a report on animate materials
Recent blog posts
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Louisiane Ferlier
In History of science
4 min read
Earthquakes
Louisiane Ferlier finds accounts of previous earthquakes in Syria and Turkey in the collections of…
Hirra Ateeq
In History of science
5 min read
Magnetism and Madras
Cataloguer Hirra Ateeq shares her discoveries from the terrestrial magnetism correspondence in the…
Keith Moore
In History of science
4 min read
Comet tales
Keith Moore looks to the skies for comets past and present.
Jessica Miller
In Publishing
5 min read
Microbial ecology for engineering biology
Michael Jones
In Schools network
4 min read
Tomorrow’s climate scientists attend a mock select committee
Students from Northfleet Technology College visited Parliament to ask questions and share their…