The Royal Society
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The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
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#OnThisDay in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin FRS was born. She won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to solve the atomic structure of molecules such as penicillin and insulin, the only British woman scientist to have won a Nobel Prize.
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Soil is a miracle material providing us with food and medicine, and in one teaspoon of soil there are more micro-organisms than people on the Earth. Despite this, we treat it like dirt. Dig into the magical world of soil with our video with @BBCIdeas. #biodiversity
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On the seventh day of #12DaysOfScience, science gave to me: a pioneer in entomology. Maria Sibylla Merian is considered one of the earliest entomologists and ecologists, and a renowned illustrator. Our video with @bbcideas tells her story, using animations based on her own work:
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We are excited to announce that applications for the Royal Society's #PairingScheme24 are now open. Every year, we pair 30 research scientists with UK parliamentarians and civil servants, giving them unique insight into each other's worlds. Find out more:
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Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, was born #OnThisDay in 1647. She collected insects and raised silkworms as a young girl, and was one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly and document metamorphosis. Watch our video with @bbcideas:
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Michael Faraday was born #OnThisDay in 1791. He is most famous for his experiments in electromagnetism and his efforts to engage the public in science through the Christmas Lectures, though he came from humble beginnings as Dame Julia Higgins tells Brian Cox:
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Vitamin B12 is the world's most expensive vitamin, and the scarcest one in the human body. As the world transitions to plant-based diets, B12 deficiency will rise. Finding ways to fortify food with B12 may help to keep people, as well as the planet, healthy. Find out more:
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