The Royal Institution (Ri) is on track to achieve a remarkable 35% reduction in carbon emissions in its Grade I listed Georgian building, thanks to a £4.35 million investment from the Mayor of London.

These small ‘drawings’, pasted into a laboratory notebook in 1851, are some of Michael Faraday’s original iron filings experiments and represent his theory of lines of force. The pole of a magnet is ...

Are you ready for a whirlwind ride through different science topics? Join Dr Karl to discover why all the gods of metal-working (including Thor-yes, Marvel lied to you!) walked with a limp, how the ...

Discover how your brain builds reality—and why it sometimes gets it wrong. Imagine your entire life, everything you see, hear, and feel, as a first-person movie. Your brain is the director, producer, ...

Stories of innovation typically involve a creative individual solving a well-described problem single-handedly, like Humphry Davy inventing the safety lamp at the Ri to prevent lethal methane ...

Dr Karl is back at the Ri with a brand new show! But now there's even a Digital Dr Karl (an Artificial Intelligence Agent) roaming the net, trying to bring misguided folk out of the Rabbit Hole of ...

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 ...

In the hidden world of forensic chemistry, miniscule molecules can tell us stories and invisible traces can provide key information for achieving justice. From fingerprints to fibres and even ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to crunching numbers—it is beginning to propose original theorems, sketch proofs and reveal new and unexpected patterns in the abstract world of ...

The Ig Nobel Prize honours things that make people LAUGH, then THINK. Ten new prizes have been awarded every year since 1991 in topics from Astronomy to Entomology. At this special event, Ig Nobel ...

What do aliens look like? What’s the worst holiday destination in the Universe? And could there be another Earth out there? Join astronomer and author Matt Bothwell as we hunt for signs of life across ...

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 ...