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Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organised by multiple space agencies – and increasingly by commercial companies – are set to visit the Moon by the end of this decade. Most of these will involve small robotic spacecraft, but NASA’s ambitious Artemis programme, aims to return humans…

New Royal Society fellow pushes for greater recognition of applied science education and business leadership.

The Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, a three-day conference organized by the Royal Society, the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and The World Academy of Sciences, was held this week in March 2023 at the Francis Crick Institute in London.…

Intervention is ‘yet another sticking plaster’ says Royal Society president, as EU funding programmes highlighted

Country would need to devote half its farmland or more than double its renewable electricity supply, says study

Covid disinformation prompts Royal Society to consider ways of countering forgeries and falsehoods

The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state

Others might have been people wanting to make money from clicks online, a parliamentary committee heard.

Downing Street said having a single department will help make sure the UK is the most innovative economy in the world.

Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, was horrified by how sperm looked under the microscope

Others honoured included an artist, a university principal, and a lollipop lady.