The Royal Institution is a charity that brings the public and scientists together to share their interest and passion for science. We've been doing it for 225 years and have an international reach, ...

Paying tribute to Professor Margaret Boden OBE ScD FBA, Chair of the Royal Institution, Sir Richard Catlow, said: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the recent death of Professor Margaret (Maggie) ...

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 ...

Discover200 at the Ri Help us celebrate 200 years of the Christmas Lectures, Discourses and discovery of benzene.

The first electrical battery, invented by Volta in 1800 in Genoa, Italy. This voltaic pile, made before 1813, was presented to Michael Faraday by Volta in 1814.

Ada Lovelace Day Live is back! The annual ‘science cabaret’ returns with a fantastic line-up of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), who will share their experiences, insights ...

Biography Ri positions Director of the Laboratory 1801–1825 Professor of Chemistry 1802–1812 Honorary Professor 1813–1823 Born in Penzance, Sir Humphry Davy attended Truro Grammar School before ...

Hasset Kifle from Stoke on Trent is the winner of the 2025 Young Science Writers Award, it was announced today.

The Ri Demo Team, plus a series of special guests, present their latest, amazing creations, contraptions and concoctions. The Royal Institution has been the home of science demonstrations for over 200 ...

We take a peek behind the scientific scenes of the last 10 years to explore the milestones in AI research that brought us to the present day.

Explore the Faraday Museum Lower ground floor 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 ...

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 ...