Kate, who takes up her new role at the Ri today (Monday 6 January), brings a wealth of experience from cultural and commercial organisations, including recent roles at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and ...

What is the birthday paradox, and how can you work out the probability of how many people in a group will share a birthday? It's the Ri's 224th birthday, and we want to throw a big bash to celebrate.

Practising NHS doctor and leading science presenter Chris van Tulleken explores how the food we eat has a fundamental impact on our own health and that of our planet, in the 2024 CHRISTMAS LECTURES ...

Come and join our creative team of media producers and digital communication professionals gain experience of digital media and science communication. At the Ri, we see digital as a way to bring ...

Discover the secrets of forensic science as Professor Dame Sue Black tells the story of a 1,000 year old skeleton, in the first of the Royal Institution's annual Christmas lectures for 2022. Monday 13 ...

Venue hire Make your next event one to remember at our unique central London venue, steeped in 200 years of science history. Find out more ...

This is an exciting opportunity to develop workshops and accessible resources, training young people to create and deliver their own Masterclasses, and support the running and evaluation of the ...

A short film demonstrating the creation of a bubble raft and highlighting that on manipulation, dislocations in the structure can be formed and repaired, similar to the close-packing seen in crystal ...

Faraday created the first transformer in August 1831. A few months later he designed and made this simple piece of apparatus based on his ring, developing the first-ever electric generator. This is ...

From the first electrical transformer to the tube that told us why the sky is blue, view the actual objects scientists of the Royal Institution built in some of the world's most famous experiments.

The Royal Institution was founded to 'introduce new technologies and teach science to the general public through lectures and demonstrations'. We've been connecting people to science for over 200 ...

Johan Mentink explores a brand new paradigm in computing, and looks at how it might offer faster solutions that can support scientific breakthroughs. Our brains consume around 20 Watts of power, a ...