Royal Society

American

noun

The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.

Royal Society British

noun

an association founded in England by Charles II in 1660 to promote research in the sciences

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The study, published in Royal Society Open Science, examined thousands of hours of passive acoustic recordings and uncovered 25 distinct underwater vocalizations.

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The study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, explored how skull diversity evolved among humans and related apes over millions of years.

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The paper, "Asexual reproduction in reef-building corals: Insights into fragment attachment to improve restoration and predict natural recovery" was published in Royal Society Open Science, online.

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Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, the paper is the first comprehensive analysis to examine both the rates and causes of recent extinctions across plants and animals.

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The Royal Society for Blind Children said the wellbeing of children relies on their sight, and communication needs to be better around the level of testing at school.

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