Our vision is that science is for everyone, and we believe there should be equitable access to all of the Ri's science engagement programmes. We aim to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to ...

Share the joy of science this Christmas with a year-round gift that's just a little bit different. Not only will your loved one get to enjoy the wonders of science, but your contribution will also ...

Ri Masterclasses are interactive STEM enrichment workshops for school students lead by professional scientists, educators, academics, or outreach experts. Students come together from several schools ...

When ChatGPT-3 crash-landed onto our computers in November 2022, you’d have been forgiven for thinking this massive leap in artificial intelligence had sprung out of nowhere. From one day to the next, ...

November 30th 2022 is a date permanently etched into the history books. For those unaware of its significance, this was when OpenAI released to the public their free-to-use, large language model ...

Volunteer historian Laurence Scales explores how war surgeons operated 25 years before antibiotics were widely available, starting from a 1915 Discourse here at the Ri. Antibiotics would not be ...

You might have heard that this year marks 200 years of the Ri's two major lecture series: the CHRISTMAS LECTURES and Discourses. But in 1825 something else quite extraordinary was going on, not in our ...

The mining and engineering industries in the 19th century relied heavily on gunpowder as an explosive to aid their work. However, storing and transporting gunpowder on wooden sailing ships was ...

Sci-fi is not all just fun and games. Megan Stephens reflects on the influence the genre has had on real-life research and technology. We’re all familiar with the trappings of science fiction, many of ...

Calls for free meals to be made available to all children in England are growing louder, while an increasing number of families turn to foodbanks to cope with rising prices and high energy bills. We ...

You know the story. Two strangers locked eyes across a crowded room, and there it is: butterflies in the stomach, sparks in the air—they know they’ve found “the one”. Love at first sight is a popular ...

As we celebrate the bicentenary of Faraday's invention of the electric motor in 1821, our Head of Heritage and Collections, Charlotte New, takes us on a voyage through time to rediscover this ...