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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Join new and former Ig Nobel Prize winners to celebrate the awards which make you laugh, then think.
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 ...
Martin Reeves reveals how innovation in science and technology really come about, using new research done on Ri premises.
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 ...
Yang-Hui He reflects on what the growing collaboration between humans and AI means for the future of mathematics.
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 ...
You've just been yanked through a wormhole into the wonderfully weird cartoon universe. The sky is technicolour, logic is optional, and the locals? Well, let’s just say they’ve got their own peculiar ...