Hannah Fry uses mathematics to study patterns in human behaviour, particularly in an urban setting and was our 2019 Christmas Lecturer. Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics of ...

From artificial intelligence to the origins of the Universe, these are the Ri science talks that captivated millions in 2025. As another year of exploring science comes to a close, it’s time to look ...

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, ...

Ri favourite Andrew Szydlo brings another spectacular show, celebrating the scientists who laid the foundations of modern chemistry. Witness stunning experiments from the work of several European ...

2025 Christmas Lecturer Maggie Aderin-Pocock returns to the Ri to explain what the James Webb Space Telescope's latest findings can tell us about the early universe. Can the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What could replace silicon in the quantum age? Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker explores the remarkable materials powering tomorrow's computers. Computers were once the size of large rooms. This ...

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 ...

Particle physics is the study of nature at the highest energies and shortest distances that we can probe in a laboratory, an ambitious attempt to construct a fundamental picture of what the universe ...