Black holes: who didn’t see them first?

4 June 2019 by Virginia Mills

Thanks to international scientific collaboration we are now able to see what a black hole looks like, 235 years after…

Closing time

28 May 2019 by Rupert Baker

We’ll be closing the Royal Society Library for a few weeks this summer. Read on to discover when and why,…

5 February 2019 by Virginia Mills

A new exhibition celebrating the scientific illustrations of Franz Bauer FRS and his brother Ferdinand opened at Teylers Museum in…

15 January 2019 by Louisiane Ferlier

Would you like to know what Isaac Newton, President of the Royal Society, was doing on 23 May 1705, or…

11 December 2018 by Jessica Montgomery

One of the more unusual images in the Royal Society’s archives depicts two human musicians and a gold duck. This…