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Jon Bushell spins a tale of spider research by early Royal Society Fellows, featuring Robert Hooke, John Ray and Martin Lister.

Early Fellows of the Royal Society had many questions about the geology, topography and meteorology of Iceland, as Ainsley Vinall discovers.

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

Katherine Marshall discovers a beautiful seventeenth-century treatise on petrified wood in the collections of the Royal Society Library. 

Centuries before digital cameras, how did early Fellows of the Royal Society approach the tricky problem of reproducing text and images? Katherine Marshall investigates.

Louisiane Ferlier describes how specimens sent to the Royal Society by Dutch scientist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek were photographed for our Science in the Making platform.

Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, and the Royal Society

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.

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh, a Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant recipient, describes how early Fellows of the Society showed a profound interest in China as a source of scientific and technological knowledge.

Isabel Lauterjung discovers some quirky musical instruments and theories in the archive and book collections of the Royal Society.

Jessica Miller visits the Science City exhibition at the Science Museum, and discovers how London grew to become a powerhouse for natural philosophy between 1550 and 1800.

In a guest article for Black History Month, Sir Geoff Palmer talks about his distinguished career as a grain scientist, and his recent work on the history of slavery and colonialism.