Watch the video version of our latest podcast with the 2025 Christmas Lecturer, Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Discover more ...

As we look forward to the broadcast of this year’s CHRISTMAS LECTURES® – ‘Is there life beyond Earth?’ – later this month, Xavier Meyer, CEO of our supporting partner Aberdeen Investments, celebrates ...

Space exploration gave us more than Moon rocks; it delivered life-changing products we now take for granted. Explore the biggest terrestrial impacts of research initially designed for zero gravity.

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 ...

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 ...

Engineering is all about solving real-world problems, using Science, Maths and DT, in this exciting challenge, participants will take on the role of Civil Engineers. In teams of six they’ll be tasked ...

The Ri has secured the support of aberdeen Investments, as Supporting Partner to the CHRISTMAS LECTURES in their 200th anniversary year, the science charity announced today. Monday 10 Mar 2025 9:30am ...