Demo team extravaganza: Fun, facts and fire round three! Essential cookies are enabled by default to give you the best ...

Help us create more opportunities for everyone to discover, discuss and critically examine science and the way it shapes our lives. The Ri has been connecting people with science for over 200 years.

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 ...

Join us in this session to go on a journey from 2D we know and love all the way to 4D and beyond, exploring shapes and problem solving along the way. The workshop includes paper folding puzzles in 2D, ...

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 ...

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.

Born in Maldon, he briefly attended both Eton College and Harrow School, but because of ill health was mostly educated at private schools. He studied the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, ...

Almost 20,000 pieces of space debris are currently orbiting the Earth. This visualisation, created by Dr Stuart Grey, lecturer at University College London and part of the Space Geodesy and Navigation ...

Humphry Davy was a chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He was director of the Ri from 1801–1825. Born in Penzance, Sir Humphry Davy attended Truro ...

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 ...

The first ever prototype of Davy’s miner’s safety lamp. Created in 1815, it prevented the methane gas present in the depths of the mines from reacting with the flame and exploding. Following a number ...