In the vaults of the Royal Society Library, Virginia Mills digs up some past research into the connection between celestial phenomena and ancient monuments.
A new digital version of the Charter Book, signed by Fellows of the Royal Society since 1665
Katherine Marshall discovers a beautiful seventeenth-century treatise on petrified wood in the collections of the Royal Society Library.
Katherine Marshall looks at the life of Lady Margaret Huggins, and her significant work in spectroscopic astrophotography in the late nineteenth century.
The story of the paper tools - including quadrants, dials and volvelles - hidden within some of the oldest astronomy books in the Royal Society Library.
Read more about the World Science Forum (WSF).
Read Venki Ramakrishnan's thoughts on why the use of GM crops needs a well-informed debate.
Third part of the countdown of the top 10 Copley Medal winners who have changed the world.
Following the publication of the latest Philosophical Transactions A theme issue, ‘Reliability and reproducibility in computational science: implementing verification, validation and uncertainty quantification in silico’, Dr Roger Highfield, Science Director of the Science Museum Group and contributing author to the issue, explores the question, ‘should we trust computers?’.
How did Richard Busby, headmaster of Westminster School, influence early Fellows of the Royal Society such as John Locke, Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren? Historian Ray Schrire investigates.
A tale of skulduggery, ectoplasm, parapsychology, seances and spiritualism at the Royal Society, with a spot of fine dining thrown in.
The Royal Society Library has the papers of David Jones (Daedalus), whose research ranged from bicycle stability and the ‘burning mirrors’ of Archimedes to the arsenic in Napoleon's wallpaper.