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The emptying of supermarket shelves during the COVID pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK’s food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the future? And what might the impact on society be?

In today’s newsletter: Black professors make up less than 1% of science academics – will a new Royal Society scheme address the imbalance?

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…