Thomas Alva Edison is famous as one of the pioneering inventors of the incandescent light bulb. The ‘light-bulb moment’ is now shorthand for a bright idea, and another of Edison’s inventions, the ...

In 2015, GM crops were grown in 28 countries and on 179.7 million hectares – that is over 10% of the world’s arable land and equivalent to seven times the land area of the UK. The USA, Brazil and ...

The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships programme also includes a Visiting Fellowship strand. From 2026 there will be two rounds per year. The Royal Society recognises that diversity is essential for ...

The Faraday Discovery Fellowships are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The Accelerated International Route, ...

Learn more about the various members of the senior staff at the Royal Society.

School of Natural Sciences and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Tasmania, Hobart Tasmania 7000, Australia. One of the largest ...

Route 4 of the Global Talent visa is for individuals who wish to be considered for endorsement by peer review undertaken by the British Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering or the Royal Society.

Grant giving is the primary means by which the Society supports outstanding science and scientists, providing fellowships and grants to researchers in the UK and internationally. Royal Society funding ...

The attack on the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences is yet another tragedy in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine and the Royal Society utterly condemns it. Our thoughts are with our colleagues in Kyiv.

Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. This year’s cohort includes pioneers ...

This new survey is the first to comprehensively set out how synthetic data is enabling the use of data without sharing data. Data about individuals, their unique characteristics, preferences, and ...

To tackle plastic pollution and its negative consequences prevention is, and should remain, the priority. Over-emphasis on clean-up interventions could divert attention away from more systemic ...