To celebrate Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, we have compiled all his greatest contributions to the Royal Institutio ...

Leading IT and business consulting firm CGI has renewed its commitment to the Royal Institution’s charitable activities, through a further three years support as title partner to the CHRISTMAS ...

Explore how transposons impact gene expression in the placenta, and what effects this has on pregnancy with research leader Jennifer Frost. How are segments of DNA preserved from ancient viruses ...

The Royal Institution (Ri) has today invited expressions of interest from organisations to livestream the 200th CHRISTMAS LECTURES. The Royal Institution (Ri) has today invited expressions of interest ...

If you are a Member of the Ri you will receive an invitation to join us for our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and we hope you will be able to attend. The AGM is important as it concludes our annual ...

The science of consciousness is a complex and constantly evolving field of research. Neuroscientists are still understanding how it originates in humans, but the question now arises of whether ...

From thin film coatings to drug delivery and even antimicrobial resistance, nanoparticles have a huge range of applications. In this month's From The Lab episode, chemist Ivan Parkin explores some of ...

Nature is full of remarkable mathematical patterns and clever designs, and honeybees are some of nature's most impressive engineers. Inside a hive, bees build honeycomb structures made from thousands ...

UCL Astrophysicist Jonathan Tennyson joins us for this month's From the Lab episode, to discuss the study of exoplanets. Planets outside of our solar system can unlock an abundance of secrets about ...

What if the strongest shape in the world… isn’t a square? In this hands-on architecture and design workshop, participants explore the bold ideas of Buckminster Fuller—an innovator who believed that ...

When ChatGPT-3 crash-landed onto our computers in November 2022, you’d have been forgiven for thinking this massive leap in artificial intelligence had sprung out of nowhere. From one day to the next, ...