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In May 2025 around 80 scientists gathered in Edinburgh for a Royal Society Theo Murphy meeting to consider how geophysical data can be better collected and used for predicting global sea level, through improved ice-sheet modelling.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Professor SA Sherif to tell us what publishing with the journal means to them.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Dr. Damya Souami to tell us what publishing with the journal means to her.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Shun-Peng Zhu to tell us what publishing with the journal means to him.

To celebrate the 360th anniversary of the start of the Philosophical Transactions, we have invited Guest Editor Conrad Wasko to tell us what publishing with the journal means to him.

Professor Sir Ian Chapman, the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, is a leader in the field of fusion energy. Together with his co-editors, Professor Sir Steven Cowley and Professor Howard Wilson, Ian has guest edited a new Philosophical Transactions A theme issue entitled ‘Delivering Fusion Energy – The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP)’. In this blog post, Ian outlines the progress made in fusion science so far, and the motivation for this recent theme issue.

Guest Editor, Professor Meric Srokosz, introduces us to his Philosophical Transactions A theme issue which explores the future projections of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC).

Lead Guest Editor, Dr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, introduces us to her Philosophical Transactions A theme issue which showcases how 91TV coordinated the efforts of diverse scientists to help model the coronavirus epidemic.

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Dr Kate Hendry, Guest Editor of the Philosophical Transactions A theme issue ‘The marine system of the West Antarctic Peninsula: status and strategy for progress in a region of rapid change‘, tells us about her experience of working with the journal.

We introduce two new Philosophical Transactions theme issues which bring together some of the speakers and attendees from the 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference, hosted by the Royal Society and the African Academy of Sciences.

As the longest-running scientific journal in the world, Philosophical Transactions A is now on Volume 380. Commissioning Editor, Alice Power, looks back on the journal in 2021 and the progress it has made during yet another challenging year.