The Royal Society announces the six shortlisted books and the judging panel for the Young People's Book Prize 2026.

Responding to the Chancellor's Autumn Budget announcement, Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, said: ...

The Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation have announced the outstanding scientists receiving Royal Society Wolfson ...

Discover our collection catalogues, digital resources as well as blog posts, videos and images. Our print store is also available here. The Royal Society supports activities in the history of science ...

The Royal Society’s fundamental purpose is to recognise, promote and support excellence in science, and to encourage the development and use of science, for the benefit of humanity and the good of the ...

Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. This year’s cohort includes pioneers ...

Hirra Ateeq maps out the contributions of unsung local surveyors, instrument-makers and mathematicians to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Following its establishment as an Indian Ocean ...

To tackle plastic pollution and its negative consequences prevention is, and should remain, the priority. Over-emphasis on clean-up interventions could divert attention away from more systemic ...

This new survey is the first to comprehensively set out how synthetic data is enabling the use of data without sharing data. Data about individuals, their unique characteristics, preferences, and ...

Supporting scientists from ethnic minority backgrounds is a key priority for the Royal Society and its Diversity Committee, which set up a sub-group to focus on this important area in 2019. The ...

Could you introduce yourself and your research? I’m finishing my PhD at New York University. My current project, ‘Smallpox and Slavery: Morbidity, Medical Intervention, and Enslaved People's Lives in ...

Eighty outstanding researchers, innovators and communicators from around the world have been elected as the newest Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest ...