A new partnership with the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network will see the filming of the 2025 CHRISTMAS LECTURES livestreamed to local community libraries throughout the UK for the first time ...

Science and art have always been intertwined, and often met right here at the Ri. Discover more about our cultural history of experimentation and collaboration. Since its foundation in 1799, the Royal ...

Collaborative explorations of childhood by amateur scientists, and historical insights into climate change, sustainability, and disaster resilience are the focus of the latest research to be ...

Paying tribute to Professor Margaret Boden OBE ScD FBA, Chair of the Royal Institution, Sir Richard Catlow, said: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the recent death of Professor Margaret (Maggie) ...

After a short break for essential building works to reduce our carbon footprint, the Royal Institution (Ri) reopens this September. Join us as we kick things off with an unmissable Autumn 2025 ...

Urenco has teamed up with the Royal Institution (Ri) to support its interactive laboratory for young people and bring it to a wider audience, including many school students from the most deprived ...

The Royal Institution (Ri) has secured support from leading construction technology firm Causeway Technologies, to take hands-on tech education for young people throughout the UK, via Ri Masterclasses ...

You might have heard that this year marks 200 years of the Ri's two major lecture series: the CHRISTMAS LECTURES and Discourses. But in 1825 something else quite extraordinary was going on, not in our ...

Could there be a mathematical theorem that requires colouring pencils to solve? Or could there be a way to use maths for maps? Grab your colouring pencils and discover how maths has helped us find the ...

How can physics help us with baby carrying? When lifting an object, we know that work done (amount of energy transferred to an object) is equal to the force it takes to lift the object, multiplied by ...

NHS Doctor and leading science presenter Chris van Tulleken will reveal the revolutionary science of what happens inside our bodies when we eat, when he gives the 2024 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the ...

The Association of British Science Writers (ABSW), the Royal Institution (Ri) and the BBC have awarded the 2024 Young Science Writer of the Year Award to Jasmin Notarangelo from East Lothian. The ...