Teacher, mathematician and professional magician Andrew Jeffrey is back to help us celebrate 50 years of the Rubik's Cube! In ...

Join renowned cosmologist George Efstathiou as he explores how cosmology has changed over recent decades, and what secrets are still to be discovered. The standard model of cosmology as we know it has ...

Informatics expert Jane Hillston explores how we model the world around us, and how new algorithms can help us face our resource-hungry modern society. How long is the security queue at the airport ...

Join us for a live recording of podcast Who Moved the Tortoise featuring special guest Helen Czerski and others. In the exciting year of the Christmas Lectures 200th anniversary celebrations, this ...

Join futurist Richard Watson for a look into how we can predict what's to come, and why, despite all our technology, the future is still full of surprises. Throughout history people have been curious ...

We are made of stardust. The atoms in our bodies were produced by stellar explosions that occurred billions of years ago. But the stars haven't just given us life; observing the sky has guided Homo ...

Join the Ri Demo Team as we kick off 2025 looking back at our favourite demonstrations from the past year. Giving you a sneak peek at the design and development process, as well as food-tastic demos ...

Join canopy science expert Robin Hayward for an incredible look at the vibrant world at the top of the rainforest, and discover how scientists study this unique ecosystem. How do scientists climb some ...

Aarti Jagannath explores how the body maintains its circadian clock, and what happens when that clock goes wrong. We live in a highly rhythmic environment where the day is a completely different ...

Join Festival of the Spoken Nerd and friends for an evening of science, songs, stand-up maths and more! An Evening of Unnecessary Detail is, in short, an event where 80% of the words in the title ...

Asteroids colliding with the planet aren’t just something that the dinosaurs had to deal with. Astronomers think that there are approximately 25,000 “city killer” asteroids in near-Earth orbit – and ...