During school holidays we run a range of exciting hands-on workshops, bringing to life all areas of science – including mathematics, computing and engineering. All workshops take place in our building ...

The Royal Institution (Ri) is an independent charity which has been connecting people with science for over 200 years. The Ri has inspired generations of scientists over the years whose discoveries ...

In this very important year for the Ri, marking 200 years of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES, 200 years of Discourses and 200 years since the discovery of Benzene, we are taking the opportunity to look further ...

We all know the movie plots where evil robots and computers take over the world, but what is the reality? This workshop explores artificial intelligence, the field of science that tries to build ...

Put your building, computational thinking and problem solving skills to use by making a variety of programmable models using LEGO. Students will be able to build LEGO models featuring working motors ...

Participants will be working as Electronic and Electrical Engineers with some Mechanical Engineering aspects. They will design and build an increasingly complex electrical and electronic control ...

The Big Bang has long been accepted as the ultimate origin of our universe - but what if it’s just the beginning of the story? In this talk, astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi will explore the fierce ...

Mikhail Burtsev explains how artificial intelligence is helping to decipher genomes and accelerate medical discoveries. Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising our understanding of life. The ...

Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books, using poisons more accurately than any other crime writer. But how is it that some chemicals in such small ...

As the aviation industry enters the early stages of the energy transition, researchers are constantly developing renewable technologies to power travel in our skies. With alternative technologies such ...

Could the atomic energy contained in a gram of radium really drive a ship across the Atlantic? Did a traffic light near the Royal Institution really give Leo Szilard his idea of the chain reaction?