Using fossil records and his own work uncovering extinct species, paleontologist Steve Brusatte rewinds 150 million years to explore how dinosaurs evolved into today's birds. Birds live all around us.

Science and literature are often considered separate cultures in today’s society. But British chemist Humphry Davy and Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi both turned their attention to Mount Vesuvius, ...

In today’s connected world it is common to consult doctors remotely, using online triage forms and video calls. Four centuries ago, long before the digital era, sick people and physicians across ...

Parastoo Hashemi explores the chemistry of our brains, and asks whether we might be able to create a simple chemical test to diagnose mental health problems. As our physical health has steadily ...

Innovator-in-Residence, David Ricketts and the Ri's Michael Cutts join forces again, for an electrifying live show inspired by Tesla’s legendary high-voltage apparatus. In the same theatre where ...

Do you believe in ghosts? Steve McNeil (WiFi Wars) is in the strange situation of not believing in ghosts, but having seen one, twice. Earlier this year, he learned of the Ri’s strange historical ...

Join Jim Al-Khalili as he interviews Chris Packham about his life and work, for a live recording of popular BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific. What turns a childhood fascination with animals, ...

Saiful Islam explores the latest in new battery and solar materials, how this is impacting energy solutions, and what has changed in the 10 years since his famous CHRISTMAS LECTURES. The supply of low ...

2025 Christmas Lecturer Maggie Aderin-Pocock returns to the Ri to explain what the James Webb Space Telescope's latest findings can tell us about the early universe. Can the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Ri favourite Andrew Szydlo brings another spectacular show, celebrating the scientists who laid the foundations of modern chemistry. Witness stunning experiments from the work of several European ...

What could replace silicon in the quantum age? Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker explores the remarkable materials powering tomorrow's computers. Computers were once the size of large rooms. This ...

Particle physics is the study of nature at the highest energies and shortest distances that we can probe in a laboratory, an ambitious attempt to construct a fundamental picture of what the universe ...