Join the Ri as it reopens with a fresh new spark, offering events ranging from mathematics and illusions to the mysteries of ...

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) ...

Dean Burnett combines his personal story with expert analysis to uncover how emotions make us who we are.

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

We’re exploring how AI is impacting different areas of scientific research, and in this episode we discuss AlphaFold, the machine learning programme from DeepMind that can determine a protein ...

How can we improve the use of renewable energy in the power grid? In the final episode of the series 'Tales from my PhD', Charlotte Collingwood talks to Karan Mukhi about his work in computer science, ...

What came first, the chicken, the egg, or...the jellyfish? Zoologist and author Jules Howard joins us this month to explore evolution through a new lens - the egg. Eggs play a fundamental role in the ...

Think more deeply about science and its place in our lives.

Sophie Shang talks about how she is using computational psychiatry to better understand and help create treatments for anxiety and depression. How can maths and computational models help us treat ...

Astrophysicists grapple with the Universe's big questions, but what does their day-to-day research actually entail? In the first of our new mini-series, 'Tales from my PhD', Charlotte Collingwood sits ...

Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist, and Julia Gillard, former Australian prime-minister dive into the roots of gendered oppression. How did societies develop across the globe and how did ...