Meet Professor Dame Sue Black, DBE - this year's lecturer for the Royal Institution's CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution. Professor Dame Sue Black DBE is a forensic anthropologist, ...

In 1965 the BBC commissioned this programme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of William Lawrence Bragg winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, jointly with his father William Henry Bragg, for ...

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 ...

Sir Richard Catlow, Chair of Trustees at the Royal Institution (Ri) has today been announced as this year’s joint winner of the prestigious David and Betty Hamburg Award for Science Diplomacy. Awarded ...

On the 100th anniversary of the first public television demonstration, read about how the partnership between science and the small screen started at the Ri. One hundred years ago today, on the 26th ...

Innovator-in-Residence, David Ricketts and the Ri's Michael Cutts join forces again, for an electrifying live show inspired by Tesla’s legendary high-voltage apparatus. In the same theatre where ...

Saiful Islam explores the latest in new battery and solar materials, how this is impacting energy solutions, and what has changed in the 10 years since his famous CHRISTMAS LECTURES. The supply of low ...

These liquids are some of the first examples of metallic gold colloids, made by Michael Faraday over 150 years ago. These liquids are the first examples of metallic gold colloids. They were made, ...

Join Jim Al-Khalili as he interviews Chris Packham about his life and work, for a live recording of popular BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific. What turns a childhood fascination with animals, ...

Geneticist Carola Vinuesa showcases leading-edge breakthroughs in our understanding of genome function, and how this work exonerated a wrongly convicted mother. The human genome contains over 3 ...

As we celebrate their 200th anniversary, dive into the history of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES — from Michael Faraday to the age of video streaming. In the early 19th century, science lectures specifically ...

TimelineJS Embed The Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS Find us Museum Licensing Shop The Royal Institution of Great Britain was granted a royal charter in 1800 and is registered ...