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Eloise Barber gives an overview of advances in the science of acoustics, from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Bladder and kidney stones, and their causes and cure, were subjects of great interest to early Royal Society Fellows, as Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme recipient Caroline Curtis explains.

Ellen Embleton tucks into the culinary content of the Royal Society's collections, and discovers some unusual experiments in cookery.

Isabel Lauterjung goes on a ‘scent trail’ through the vaults of the Royal Society Library.

Isabel Lauterjung finds some curious references to weapon salves and the cure of wounds at a distance in the archives of the Royal Society.

Did an Egyptian chameleon, painted by Richard Waller and supposedly owned by Robert Boyle, ever find its way into the Repository of the Royal Society? Louisiane Ferlier looks at the tangled evidence in the archives.

Louisiane Ferlier looks at Robert Boyle's ideas on how science should be financed and methods to ensure best practice.

The records of the Royal Society throw up surprisingly frequent instances of scientists subjecting themselves to the tortures of the damned in pursuit of new knowledge, as well as the occasional laboratory accident.

Rupert Baker responds to a census on Robert Boyle's 1661 book 'The Sceptical Chymist', and discovers some interesting facts about the copy in the Royal Society Library.

There are no known portraits of Robert Hooke - but is Isaac Newton to blame? Felicity Henderson weighs the evidence.

As the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary festivities draw to a close, we’re starting to plan ahead for a library-themed celebration of our own.

Over three hundred years ago, Robert Boyle FRS wrote a list of things that he hoped could be achieved through science, from the prolongation of life to 'varnishes perfumable by rubbing'.