Nest eggs

31 March 2013 by Keith Moore

The cartoonish notion of nicotine-scavenging sparrows is brought irresistibly to mind by a recent (very serious) Biology Letters paper ‘Incorporation…

Can you feel the chemistry?

14 February 2013 by Joanna Hopkins

Here at numbers 6-9 Carlton House Terrace there is one man who sets girls’ hearts fluttering, one man who makes…

The romantic Mr Edwards

13 February 2013 by Keith Moore

Treasure on the high seas in the swashbuckling days of the eighteenth century wasn’t always the usual boring chests of…

The Royal Society’s artworks now on ‘Your Paintings’

14 December 2012 by Joanna Hopkins

Digital images of the Royal Society’s oil paintings have now been added to the ‘Your Paintings‘ website. This national project…

Psyche’s daughters

15 November 2012 by Keith Moore

The recent Royal Society wiki edit-a-thon on ‘Women in Science’ was very successful in improving the records of 20th century scientists…