Science and art have always been intertwined, and often met right here at the Ri. Discover more about our cultural history of experimentation and collaboration. Since its foundation in 1799, the Royal ...

Discover how your brain builds reality—and why it sometimes gets it wrong. Imagine your entire life, everything you see, hear, and feel, as a first-person movie. Your brain is the director, producer, ...

Honorary and Emeritus Professors 1813–1823 Humphry Davy 1852–1866 William Thomas Brande 1887–1893 John Tyndall 1905–1919 John William Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh 1921–1940 Joseph John Thomson 1963–1964 ...

Stories of innovation typically involve a creative individual solving a well-described problem single-handedly, like Humphry Davy inventing the safety lamp at the Ri to prevent lethal methane ...

Innovation is an integral part of science, but is it always good? Join ethics and technology expert Jeroen van den Hoven as he explores how to make sure our innovations and new technologies serve the ...

Imagine being able to spot flaws in a rollercoaster, railway line, or power station before disaster strikes - all without laying a finger on them. Sounds like sci-fi? Welcome to the world of ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to crunching numbers—it is beginning to propose original theorems, sketch proofs and reveal new and unexpected patterns in the abstract world of ...

Biotechnology expert Carina Kern delves into the science of ageing, and whether we might be able to slow the process down. In this thought-provoking talk, Carina Kern, CEO of LinkGevity and a leading ...

Physicist Vlatko Vedral presents a number of key thought experiments that test the foundations of physics, namely the interface between quantum physics and general relativity. General relativity is ...

How does the brain make sense of the world around us? For most of us, our senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—seem separate. But in reality, they work together in complex ways. Some people ...

What do aliens look like? What’s the worst holiday destination in the Universe? And could there be another Earth out there? Join astronomer and author Matt Bothwell as we hunt for signs of life across ...

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 ...