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Join the Ri as it reopens with a fresh new spark, offering events ranging from mathematics and illusions to the mysteries of ...
The Ri Demo Team, Innovator in Residence David Ricketts, plus a series of special guests, present their latest, amazing ...
Urenco has teamed up with the Royal Institution (Ri) to support its interactive laboratory for young people and bring it to a wider audience, including many school students from the most deprived ...
Think more deeply about science and its place in our lives.
Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist, and Julia Gillard, former Australian prime-minister dive into the roots of gendered oppression. How did societies develop across the globe and how did ...
The Ri is the place to discover the latest developments from firm favourites and Wifi Wars founders Steve McNeil and Rob Sedgebeer. You'll get hands on with their unique future-tech video gaming ...
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple. Award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal ...
Tim Gregory is a nuclear chemist working at Sellafield, where he measures the radioactivity and chemical composition of nuclear fuel, nuclear medicines, and nuclear space materials, amongst other ...
Could Hycean worlds hold alien life? Join us to explore new exoplanets, JWST discoveries, and the future of finding life beyond Earth. Are we alone in the universe? This is one of the oldest and most ...
Through a series of fascinating examples, physicist and data-visualisation specialist César Hidalgo shows how scientific laws of time, space and value allow us to chart how knowledge moves and spreads ...
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 ...