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Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2023 announces winners, showing exceptional scientific photography

Rishi Sunak, David Cameron and King Charles are just three of the more than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries at the latest UN climate summit in Dubai, COP28. But they are among hundreds who will have travelled there by private jet. In fact, the UK prime minister, foreign secretary…

The Pulitzer-winning author, who has just won the Royal Society science book prize for An Immense World, reveals how radical empathy uncovers the forces that have driven evolution and teaches us new ways to engage

As the Royal Society’s Summer Science exhibition opens we ask four experts for their predictions

The Summer Science Exhibition shows the enduring appeal of the prehistoric

Editorial: Nearly three decades after the founding of the Women’s prize, the fight for space in fiction has largely been won. It’s time to move on to politics, history, science, sport…

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies – and increasingly by commercial companies – are set to visit the moon by the end of this decade.

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organised by multiple space agencies – and increasingly by commercial companies – are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade. Most of these will involve small robotic spacecraft, but NASA’s ambitious Artemis programme, aims to return humans…

New Royal Society fellow pushes for greater recognition of applied science education and business leadership.

The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, a three-day conference organized by the Royal Society, the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and The World Academy of Sciences, was held this week in March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute in London.…

Intervention is ‘yet another sticking plaster’ says Royal Society president, as EU funding programmes highlighted