The Latest Breaking News from the Royal Society

Fellows at the society met on Monday night after 2,400 members signed an open letter alleging the tech-billionaire of spreading misinformation

Questions remain over whether further action will be taken after resignations and calls for the Tesla CEO to be expelled

Geoffrey Hinton wants Musk to be banished form the Royal Society, but note for alleged "Nazi salutes".

The entrepreneur has come under fire for posts on his social media site

An open letter alleged Mr Musk had broken the Royal Society’s code of conduct by promoting ‘unfounded conspiracy theories’.

Though scientist was not thought to be a great drinker, he may have used beer as an ingredient in the homemade ink in which he wrote his greatest work

The letter says that the lack of any statement on the issue by the society ‘increasingly looks like a failure of moral courage’

Stephen Curry, professor of structural biology at Imperial College London, wrote an open letter which has been signed by thousands of people.

More than 1,700 academics complain about X owner’s behaviour, citing his ‘assault on scientific research’

Could corporate transparency be one of the solutions to climate change? Or, at the very least, could it be a way to hold businesses accountable for their environmental impacts? Not by itself, according to our paper, “Shaping nature outcomes in corporate settings”, recently published by The Royal Society.

Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences