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Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg’s and resident ecotypes deserve species status

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are currently recognized as a single ecologically and morphologically diverse, globally distributed species. Multiple morphotypes or ecotypes have been described, often associated with feeding specialization, and several ...Read more

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Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates

Giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) are some of the UK’s largest trees, despite only being introduced in the mid-nineteenth century. There are an estimated half a million giant sequoias and closely related coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) in ...Read more

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Soundscape enrichment increases larval settlement rates for the brooding coral Porites astreoides

Coral reefs, hubs of global biodiversity, are among the world’s most imperilled habitats. Healthy coral reefs are characterized by distinctive soundscapes; these environments are rich with sounds produced by fishes and marine invertebrates. Emerging ...Read more

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Are dark-eyed dogs favoured by humans? Domestication as a potential driver of iris colour difference between dogs and wolves

Comparative studies have shown that the eye morphology of primates has been shaped by a variety of selection pressures (e.g. communication, environmental factors). To comprehensively elucidate the complex links between ocular morphology and its ...Read more

Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg’s and resident ecotypes deserve species status

Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates

Soundscape enrichment increases larval settlement rates for the brooding coral Porites astreoides

Are dark-eyed dogs favoured by humans? Domestication as a potential driver of iris colour difference between dogs and wolves

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Royal Society Open Science

Royal Society Open Science is an open journal publishing high-quality original research on the basis of objective peer-review. The journal covers the entire range of science and mathematics and allows the Society to publish all the high-quality work it receives without the usual restrictions on scope, length or impact. Demonstrating its commitment to best practice in open access publishing, Royal Society Open Science has been awarded the DOAJ Seal.

7 July 2021
Fatigue, boredom and objectively measured smartphone use at work
- Jonas Dora,
- Madelon van Hooff,
- Sabine Geurts,
- Michiel Kompier, and
- Erik Bijleveld
13 February 2019
Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents' aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report
- Andrew K. Przybylski and
- Netta Weinstein
22 March 2017
Challenges and opportunities associated with waste management in India
- Sunil Kumar,
- Stephen R. Smith,
- Geoff Fowler,
- Costas Velis,
- S. Jyoti Kumar,
- Shashi Arya,
- Rena,
- Rakesh Kumar, and
- Christopher Cheeseman
17 February 2021
Video game play is positively correlated with well-being
- Niklas Johannes,
- Matti Vuorre, and
- Andrew K. Przybylski

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14 October 2020
Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world
- Jon Roozenbeek,
- Claudia R. Schneider,
- Sarah Dryhurst,
- John Kerr,
- Alexandra L. J. Freeman,
- Gabriel Recchia,
- Anne Marthe van der Bles, and
- Sander van der Linden
1 December 2014
The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris
- Lucy C. Woodall,
- Anna Sanchez-Vidal,
- Miquel Canals,
- Gordon L.J. Paterson,
- Rachel Coppock,
- Victoria Sleight,
- Antonio Calafat,
- Alex D. Rogers,
- Bhavani E. Narayanaswamy, and
- Richard C. Thompson
16 September 2020
Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
- Toby Wise,
- Tomislav D. Zbozinek,
- Giorgia Michelini,
- Cindy C. Hagan, and
- Dean Mobbs
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MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species
- M. Miya,
- Y. Sato,
- T. Fukunaga,
- T. Sado,
- J. Y. Poulsen,
- K. Sato,
- T. Minamoto,
- S. Yamamoto,
- H. Yamanaka,
- H. Araki,
- M. Kondoh, and
- W. Iwasaki
1 January 2017
Thioflavin T as an amyloid dye: fibril quantification, optimal concentration and effect on aggregation
- Christine Xue,
- Tiffany Yuwen Lin,
- Dennis Chang, and
- Zhefeng Guo

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Current issue

Editor-In-Chief

Dame Wendy Hall DBE FREng FRS

Latest articles

Featured articles

Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg’s and resident ecotypes deserve species status

Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates

Soundscape enrichment increases larval settlement rates for the brooding coral Porites astreoides

Are dark-eyed dogs favoured by humans? Domestication as a potential driver of iris colour difference between dogs and wolves

Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg’s and resident ecotypes deserve species status

Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the UK: carbon storage potential and growth rates

Soundscape enrichment increases larval settlement rates for the brooding coral Porites astreoides

Are dark-eyed dogs favoured by humans? Domestication as a potential driver of iris colour difference between dogs and wolves

Aims and scope

Royal Society Open Science

Fatigue, boredom and objectively measured smartphone use at work

Violent video game engagement is not associated with adolescents' aggressive behaviour: evidence from a registered report

Challenges and opportunities associated with waste management in India

Video game play is positively correlated with well-being

Susceptibility to misinformation about COVID-19 around the world

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

Changes in risk perception and self-reported protective behaviour during the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species

Thioflavin T as an amyloid dye: fibril quantification, optimal concentration and effect on aggregation

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