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Fishers and scientists have been working together to understand why porpoises and dolphins become accidentally entangled in fishing gear. Authors of the recently published Royal Society Open Science article, 'First detailed insights into harbour porpoise behaviour during a bycatch event', tell us more.

Royal Society Open Science recently published an article on ‘Fine-scale spatiotemporal predator–prey interactions in an Antarctic fur seal colony’. In this blog post, authors Ane Liv Berthelsen and Johannes Bartl tell us how the idea for this paper came about, as well as more about their findings and what makes them significant for the wider scientific community.

Sea anemones may look simple, but their biology tells a far more complex story. This Open Biology study uncovers how specialised stinging cells used for prey capture and defence, are regulated at a deeper level than ever before.

As part of Interface's 20th anniversary celebrations, a competition was launched inviting authors to submit a Perspective exploring where the field of interdisciplinary research will be in 20 years' time. In this blog post, we speak with the authors of the winning article, 'Decoding microbial signatures: an interdisciplinary call in a warming world'.

Science is built on integrity and trustworthiness so when a flood of low-quality or fraudulent papers enter the system unchecked, trust in science is damaged. Bernhard A Sabel at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany and Dan Larhammar at Uppsala University, Sweden present the ‘Stockholm Declaration’ for the ‘Reformation of Science Publishing’ published in Royal Society Open Science.

Highlighted as one of Royal Society Open Biology's most popular articles this year, the team reveals how transient manipulation of a key developmental signalling pathway - sonic hedgehog (Shh) - can induce a dramatic shift from chemical pattern formation to mechanical skin folding in developing chicken embryos.

To celebrate Open Access Week, we highlight some of our best-performing articles from the past year. We hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as we have.

We are excited to announce that the winner of the 2024 competition is Frank Britto Bisso and colleagues for their article Pattern recognition in living cells through the lens of machine learning.

New registered report research published in Royal Society Open Science finds that the most popular iPhone games frequently broke many industry rules intended to protect consumers and children.

New research published in Journal of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Interface examines how the unique muscle arrangement of seahorse tails affects the mechanics of grasping, using in-silico simulations. Dr Dries Marzougui from Ghent University provides an overview of their work.

A new Royal Society Open Science study investigates causal illusions and their association with pseudoscience, stereotypes, and unjustified beliefs. This is the first research showing the efficacy and long-term effects of a debiasing intervention against causal illusions that can be used on a large scale through the educational system. We spoke to Dr. Helena Matute to find out more about the work.

When asked to name scientists, students mention the likes of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Isaac Newton. And when asked to draw a scientist, students almost always draw a white man holding a test tube and wearing a lab coat. Professor Robin Costello from the University at Buffalo tells us more about a new study that parsed the effects of including visual depictions and humanizing information about scientists featured in undergraduate biology course materials.