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 appointed Coniston Limited as the principal contractor for multi-million-pound works to substantially reduce carbon emissions from the Ri’s Grade I Listed building, it ...

The Ri is the place to discover the latest developments from firm favourites and Wifi Wars founders Steve McNeil and Rob Sedgebeer. You'll get hands on with their unique future-tech video gaming ...

Tim Gregory is a nuclear chemist working at Sellafield, where he measures the radioactivity and chemical composition of nuclear fuel, nuclear medicines, and nuclear space materials, amongst other ...

Event type This is a theatre only event where the speakers and audience are together in our Theatre. By booking to attend events at the Royal Institution, you confirm that you have read and accept the ...

Martin Reeves reveals how innovation in science and technology really come about, using new research done on Ri premises.

Over the past fifty years, astronomers have grown increasingly certain that most of the Universe is made up of a mysterious, invisible substance that defies our current understanding of physics. This ...

Asthma is a common childhood condition and one of the most common causes for childhood admissions to hospital. Medical understanding of underlying factors that trigger asthma symptoms has developed ...

We often see art and mathematics as opposites—emotion versus logic—but in this Discourse, mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy reveals a deep and surprising connection between them. He explores how ...

Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. Award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal ...

Physicist and renowned broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili takes a look back at a century of quantum mechanics, the strangest yet most successful theory in all of science, and how it has shaped our world. He ...

Yang-Hui He reflects on what the growing collaboration between humans and AI means for the future of mathematics.