The discovery of the Higgs Boson was one of the greatest and most exciting discoveries of science – could you...
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Haptic technologies recreating the sense of touch have revolutionised everything from robotics to medical training. Explore all aspects of touch...
Join Nobel Prize winner Art McDonald who will tell the story of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, a Canada-UK-US laboratory 2...
On 23 May 2015, John Forbes Nash tragically died in a taxi accident, just after receiving the most prestigious award...
Gazing at the night sky with our eyes or telescopes reveals twinkling stars and far away galaxies. But visible light...
Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a science theme. If you're an interested...
There is vastly more going on in our heads than we realise. In this lightning tour of human reasoning, world-renowned...
From revealing how inheritance works and developing evolutionary biology to manipulating viruses and bacteria to create products humans need, 20th...
Water is all around us – most of the planet’s surface is covered with it and it is the main...
Where is the best place to find living life beyond Earth? It may be that the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and...
Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a science theme. If you're an interested...
Fifty years since the first space probe landed on the moon, Ri Lates will be exploring space, from the rocket...
66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at incredible speed and destroyed the...
You can still be a part of the fun by watching a live feed on the big screen of all...
This is your opportunity to get involved with the magic of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES. In this hour-long tour of the...
This is your opportunity to get involved with the magic of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES. In this hour-long tour of the...
This is your opportunity to get involved with the magic of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES. In this hour-long tour of the...
This is your opportunity to get involved with the magic of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES. In this hour-long tour of the...
Queuing outside the Royal Institution on a cold evening in November, it struck me as a little odd that to...
Photo credit: Katherine McAlpine/Royal Institution After the storming success of his family-friendly talk at the Ri itself and online, Andrew...
Photo credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration In the International Year of Light, join astrophysicist Roberto Trotta to discover what the...
Photo credit: Jennifer Rohn Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a...
Bacteria are our ancient enemies, evolving ever more clever ways of outmanoeuvring our natural defences and scientific technologies. For millennia,...
Cut pizzas in new and fairer ways! Fit a 2p coin through an impossibly small hole! Make a perfect regular pentagon...
Photo credit: Jennifer Rohn Jennifer Rohn of Lablit.com hosts the monthly book club dedicated to great fiction books with a...
Do animals have culture? Can we see evidence of tradition in their lifestyle? If so, how has this benefited them?...
For the first time in history, this 24th October 2014 the Royal Institution (Ri) opened its doors for an adults-only...
This review was published in the Reviews section of the Super Science issue (issue 28), as a prominent event review...
Themes of the last fortnight have included passing the Turing test and Space. Find the top science web vids here...
The Royal Institution’s second Science-Fiction-Friction! show, a live comedy show about science fiction and science fact, was a little bit...
