The scientific programme of their Davy Faraday Laboratory currently covers the science of complex materials with important properties relating to, for example, superconductivity and catalysis. Additional information available for scientists and researchers includes research studentships available at the Royal Institution, research seminars and meetings, publications and reports, an atomistic potentials database, and Marvin's computer programme. In the role of promoting science and understanding science for young people, the Royal Institution offers science events for schools, mathematics masterclasses, and computational science seminars. This site is aimed at researchers, students, scholars and the general public and is published on the web by the Royal Institution of Science. Science online, the online version of Science, is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and maintained by HighWire Press.
Science online provides free access to current and back issues of table of contents.
Also, on completion of a small questionaire, registered limited access allows free access to abstracts of research papers, the editorial and netwatch sections of the journal. The current grant schemes cover travel, accomodation and conference expenses as well as short research visits, and are available mainly to PhD students or postdoctoral microbiologists at an early stage in their career. There are also some overseas funding schemes to help microbiologists in developing countries and Eastern Europe. The rules, eligibility and closing dates for funding are announced regularly in the Society's newsletter, Microbiology Today. Application forms for the various schemes can be downloaded from this site.