In April, the John Innes Centre hosted the first Women of the Future Conference, at which female students from 20 schools across Norfolk and Suffolk heard inspirational talks designed to make it clear that girls can make it in STEMM careers

Professor Enrico Coen has been awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Croonian Medal for his curiosity-led work to understand how the shapes of biological structures, like flowers and leaves, arise through development and evolution

Research and Support Staff play an essential and important role in scientific institutions, which we are recognising by becoming a Science Council Employer Champion

Scientists across the Atlantic have joined forces to speed up the development of malting barley for the explosion in craft brewing in the UK and US, and demand for locally-produced beer

Dr Claire Domoney has been awarded the Royal Agricultural Society of England Research Medal for her research in pea genetics

The scientists who recently identified dramatic changes in yellow rust populations affecting wheat in the UK, have just been awarded £1.2 million to develop a new, quicker, cheaper version of their field–based diagnostic tool

New research findings have helped to settle an important debate in the field of epigenetic inheritance

Dr Anne Edwards has been presented with her British Empire Medal by the Queen, for services to the environment and public understanding of science

The global threat of widespread bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the greatest challenges facing science and medicine