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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anniversary of his birth, guest blogger Louise Ryland-Epton explores the radical ideas contained in John Aubrey's long-unpublished 'Natural History of Wiltshire'.

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.

Vida Milovanovic investigates historical methods of keeping correspondence safe from prying eyes.

Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue on ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’. In this blog, Guest Editors of the issue, Cathal O’Madagain, Sarah Alami, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Edmond Seabright, José Segovia Martin, James Winters and Andrew Whiten tell us how this issue came about, and about some of the important research highlighted in this issue.

A new printing technique was showcased at Burlington House during the Royal Society's 1896 exhibition, as Katherine Marshall reports.

The 'Mining Chronicle' cartoons of Henry De la Beche FRS are a valuable resource in understanding nineteenth-century geology, as Virginia Mills explains.

Interface Focus recently published a theme issue on ‘Cyborg Futures’. In this blog post, Guest Editor Professor Jonathan Rossiter (University of Bristol) tells us more about the theme issue.

What's in the grey boxes in Rare Book Room bay 36? A recent cataloguing project has revealed an eclectic mix, as Rupert Baker reports.

Stuart Pimm and John Gittleman tell us about their team’s effort to assess the successes and failures of the conservation enterprise in a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Future success in conservation will depend on clearly defined metrics to measure what works and what does not. Such a recommendation resonates strongly with the work pioneered by Professor Dame Georgina Mace.

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.

The Wolfson Foundation's partnership with the Royal Society dates back to 1959, and continues to support important scientific research, as Jon Bushell explains.