Royal Institution pays tribute to the life and work of Professor Margaret Boden

A tribute to Professor Margaret Boden OBE ScD FBA, Chair of the Royal Institution.

Young Science Writer of the Year Award winner announced

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

Podcast: Best of 2024: Science wrapped

We rewind 2024 to spotlight the most unforgettable science moments from the Ri podcasts.

Chemistry Climate

Podcast: Sustainable materials: Trick or treat? - with Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver unpacks whether our sustainable materials are actually sustainable and answers whether plastic can ever be fully

Biology and the human body

Podcast: The brain on exercise - with Dr Flaminia Ronca

Exercise neuroscientist Flaminia Ronca explains what actually happens to your brain when you exercise.

Biology and the human body History of science

Podcast: How women drove evolution - with Cat Bohannon

Cat Bohannon reveals insights from her book, Eve: How Women Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution, and highlights women’s pivotal

Chemistry

Podcast: The science of cheese - with Bronwen Percival

Bronwen Percival takes us from cheese production to the biochemistry underlying its notorious smell, and even some cheese

History of science Natural world

Podcast: Eggs, Evolution, and life on Earth - with Jules Howard

Zoologist and author Jules Howard explores evolution through a new lens: the egg.

Biology and the human body Brain

Podcast: The neuroscience of memory - with Charan Ranganath

Dr Charan Ranganath, renowned neuroscientist and author, discusses how and why we remember.