How the inventor of "biology" located life's beginnings in the sea.

This volume challenges oversimplified accounts of the value-free (VFI) and the value-laden ideals (VLI) in twentieth-century philosophy of science. Rather than a single, unified position, it reveals a...

Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture | Royal Society Professor Gregory Radick at the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Centre for History & Philosophy of Science) at the University of Leeds has been awarded the prestigious 2026 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society. The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture is given for excellence in the history of science, philosophy of science or the social function of science.

We would like to invite you to join the PhD Summer School that has an attractive program with many expert speakers in the field of environmental signaling in plants. In addition to the invited…

Researcher Nathan Cofnas previously claimed Black people would hold few high-profile positions in a meritocracy

The most moving story of self-sacrifice in the history of science.

In cell biology, computational models of biological systems range from minimal representations with a handful of parameters to whole-cell simulations tracking thousands of molecular species across a c...

CFP on RSA websiteThis is part of our project on natural crafts – here the series we direct. Despite their silent existence, plants were considered more than passive medicinal and agricultura…