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Alan Belward explains how satellites can help monitor the latest threat to life on Earth: a lack of space

Why are clinical trials important and what types of careers are associated with them?

Ashley Leiman OBE, director of the Orangutan Foundation, explores the complex relationship between man and our closest relatives – the great apes

Jenni Lacey explains how optogenetics has opened up our understanding of the brain

Alan Lansdown looks at the toxicology and uses of arsenic, from 19th-century poison to potential cancer treatment

Dr Catherine Ball looks ahead to science and research in an independent Scotland

Each year the Society awards twenty £500 travel grants for students or early career researchers to fund trips abroad that will help their work.

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