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UK prime minister Rishi Sunak appears to be wavering on “net zero by 2050” that Theresa May successfully passed through parliament with barely a cough of disapproval in 2019.

A public ET message could initiate cascading events, including military actions to corporate resource mining

SETI has been searching for evidence of alien life – but could doing so end in disaster?

We’re only halfway through 2023, and it feels already like the year of alien contact.

‘Expected’ return could help retain scientists and researchers lost after grants were cancelled in Brexit row

As the Royal Society’s Summer Science exhibition opens we ask four experts for their predictions

The Summer Science Exhibition shows the enduring appeal of the prehistoric

The Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics criticised the Welsh Government's plans to change GCSE science qualifications

The first virgin birth by a crocodile has been reported by a reptile park in Costa Rica. An 18-year-old crocodile laid an egg containing a fully formed foetus, despite having been housed alone for 16 years and never mating. The Royal Society, in its journal Biology Letters, said this is…

An alumnus of the Alagappa College of Technology of Anna University M. Madan Babu has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2023)

Britain said it would supply armour piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine to help destroy Russian tanks, a step President Vladimir Putin said would force a response from Moscow as the weapons had "a nuclear component".