The Ri is back with an exciting Autumn 2025 programme

Join the Ri as it reopens with a fresh new spark, offering events ranging from mathematics and illusions to the mysteries of the

Biology and the human body Technology and engineering

Podcast: Ri on AI: The healthcare revolution – with Dr James Kinross

Dr James Kinross chats to Lisa Derry about the impacts of AI on healthcare, from medical publishing to robotic surgery.

Maths

Podcast: Geometry in Everyday Life - with the London Institute of Mathematical Sciences (LIMS)

Yang-Hui He and Madeleine Hall from LIMS explore how our modern understanding of geometry has evolved — from Euclid’s postulates

Biology and the human body Technology and engineering

Podcast: Ri on AI: Understanding AlphaFold with Dame Janet Thornton

Dame Janet Thornton talks about AlphaFold, the AI programme that can determine a protein structure from its amino acids alone.

Maths Technology and engineering

Podcast: Tales from my PhD: Algorithms for energy efficiency – with Karan Mukhi

Karan Mukhi talks how he is using algorithms to improve the use of renewable energy in the power grid.

Natural world

Podcast: Tales from my PhD: Fighting rice blast fungus – with Camilla Molinari

Camilla Molinari talks about how she is studying the rice blast fungus to limit its impact on food crops.

Biology and the human body Brain Maths

Podcast: Tales from my PhD: Researching anxiety and depression through computational models – with Sophie Shang

Sophie Shang talks about how she is using computational psychiatry to better understand and help create treatments for anxiety

Natural world

Podcast: Tales from my PhD: Saving manta rays – with Jessica Savage

Jessica Savage talks about her PhD work of protecting manta rays, the marine species at risk due to rising plastic pollution.

Physics

Podcast: How to hear gravitational waves – with Tessa Baker

How can we detect massive objects in space when we can't see them by light?

Physics

Podcast: Tales from my PhD: What is galaxy evolution? – with Rohan Varadaraj

Rohan Varadaraj discuss his PhD work on discovering new galaxies, billions of light years away.