Put your building, computational thinking and problem solving skills to use by making a variety of programmable models using LEGO. In this session with Brian Egles, you will work in pairs to build a ...

Join Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams alongside Ig Nobel laureates to celebrate the awards which make you laugh, then think. Every year the Ig Nobel Prizes honor ten achievements that make people LAUGH, ...

Discover how the development of microscopes has shaped our understanding of the senses, as Anwen Bullen explores the working of the ear. The inner ear has long fascinated biologists. It contains our ...

Started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and broadcast on national television every year, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES are the UK's flagship science series. The three-part series is filmed in front of a live ...

Put your building, computational thinking and problem solving skills to use by making a variety of programmable models using LEGO. This workshop is strictly for ages 9–11 only. We reserve the right to ...

From the first electrical transformer to the tube that told us why the sky is blue, view the actual objects scientists of the Royal Institution built in some of the world's most famous experiments.

The Royal Institution (Ri) has joined forces with the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) to invite entries for a national award to help nurture aspiring science writers from UK ...

Adults and families are set to ‘Discover200’ years of the past, present and future of science, at the Royal Institution (Ri) this year, as the science charity celebrates the 200th anniversaries of the ...

The new Programme, ‘Fuel the Future’, can be booked by UK schools – including those in the most deprived parts of the country that are set to benefit from free visits from the Ri’s professional ...

A workshop that is out of this world! Using lots of hands-on activities we will: represent cosmic distances in a variety of ways; re-tell the true story of how astrophysicists used maths to classify a ...

The continual struggle between bacterial pathogens and their hosts provides an illustration of evolution in action, driven by changes in the bacterial DNA. Students use restriction enzyme digests and ...