Professor Charles Bangham FMedSci FRS
News and views
9 mins
Five questions on Long Covid
Long Covid imposes a significant burden on public health systems and the economy throughout the world. A huge worldwide effort continues to understand how the condition is caused and to find effective treatments, and some potentially exciting advances have recently been made.
Desmond J Higham
Publishing
3 mins
Safe, secure and robust AI for safety-critical systems
Philosophical Transactions A has recently published a theme issue on 'Safe, secure and robust AI for safety-critical systems’. In this blog post, Guest Editor Desmond J Higham tells us about some of the important research highlighted in this issue.
Ainsley Vinall
History of science
5 mins
Snakes and leaders
Ainsley Vinall examines the symbolism behind a late portrait of Isaac Newton in the collections of the Royal Society.
Virginia Mills
History of science
6 mins
The two doctors
Virginia Mills finds ‘a beautiful and unbroken marriage of souls’ between two seventeenth-century Fellows of the Royal Society.
Rachel Gladman
Publishing
5 mins
Celebrating the top-cited Royal Society journal articles of 2025
In this blog post, we share the top-cited articles of 2025, showcasing the breadth and impact of the research published across the Royal Society's journals.
Professor Sarah Brosnan
Publishing
6 mins
The other 1%: Showcasing underrepresented voices in biological science
In this blog, Guest Editors Sarah Brosnan, Stephanie Meirmans, Maurine Neiman, Guadalupe Peralta and Shalene Singh-Shepherd discuss the inspiration behind The other 1% Special Feature in Proceedings B, the importance of showcasing research from underrepresented regions, and what they learned from bringing this unique collection together.
Jon Bushell
History of science
7 mins
Icy relations
Royal Society manuscripts and photographs from the 1901-1904 British National Antarctic Expedition have now been made available on our Science in the Making platform, as Jon Bushell reports.
Louisiane Ferlier
History of science
7 mins
Charting the weather
Louisiane Ferlier unveils the Royal Society's full collection of meteorological observations, now available on our Science in the Making platform.
Ciara Doyle
Publishing
5 mins
Fine-scale spatiotemporal predator-prey interactions in an Antarctic fur seal colony
Royal Society Open Science recently published an article on ‘Fine-scale spatiotemporal predator–prey interactions in an Antarctic fur seal colony’. In this blog post, authors Ane Liv Berthelsen and Johannes Bartl tell us how the idea for this paper came about, as well as more about their findings and what makes them significant for the wider scientific community.
Louise Ryland-Epton
History of science
5 mins
Wiltshire and the world
To mark the 400th anniversary of his birth, guest blogger Louise Ryland-Epton explores the radical ideas contained in John Aubrey's long-unpublished 'Natural History of Wiltshire'.
Professor Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS
News and views
3 mins
Technicians and the fellowship
Dr Nicola Quick
News and views
4 mins
Biodiversity matters: teaching young students to love nature using immersive science and data collection
Hands-on STEM learning provides significant value to children as they navigate the connections between abstract concepts learnt in lessons to real-world applications and experiences.