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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Physicist Alan Costley tracks the technologies being used to develop fusion reactors, and explores which might win the global race for clean power. Nuclear fusion is the primary source of energy in ...

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 ...

Louisa Charlotte Hamilton married John Tyndall, then Superintendent of the House and Director of the Laboratory at the Royal Institution, in Westminster Abbey on 29 February 1876, when he was in the ...

Everything that happens below ground sustains all life above it – yet we rarely think about this mysterious, dark underland. In this talk, Frank Ashwood scratches the surface and takes us on an ...

When mentioned in passing, quantum theory can seem mystifying, with talk of uncertainty, being in two places at once and teleportation. However, it is a theory that arose from a need to explain ...

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, ...