Cybersecurity and the SDSR – Ensuring security and prosperity

7 January 2016 by Marcus Shepheard, Science Policy Intern

Security and prosperity through innovation The government’s new Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), updates and replaces the previous SDSR…

All I want for Christmas is … machine learning

18 December 2015 by Aleks Berditchevskaia

You might have seen that we recently launched a policy project on machine learning, the powerful technology that allows machines…

Scientists and the Biological Weapons Convention: Meeting the States Parties

18 December 2015 by Professor Rod Flower FRS

Three months after our Trends Symposium in Warsaw (convened by the Royal Society, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the…

The big questions for research using personal data

19 October 2015 by Louise Pakseresht, Senior Policy Adviser

Data age We live in an era of data. The world is generating 1.7 million billion bytes of data every…

The data dilemma

12 October 2015 by Alice Jamieson

Computing has spread into almost every aspect of our lives, creating a vast amount of data. How can we achieve…