What do you know about glaciers?

Professor Matt A King was awarded 2015 Kavli Medal and Lecture speaking at the Royal Society on ‘Continental loss: the…

All about the Solar Eclipse

19 March 2015 by Lucie Green

On the morning of 20 March, at around 8:30 GMT, the Moon will begin to slide in front of the Sun…

19 March 2015 by Stefan Janusz

Since the first issue of Philosophical Transactions was published just over 350 years ago, its success has been built on the…

2 February 2015 by Stefan Janusz

In the early part of 1665, the Royal Society’s first joint Secretary, Henry Oldenburg, was occupied with the normal business that…

26 January 2015 by David Chapman

Dr Sinead Collins is a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, and heads the research…