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CHRISTMAS LECTURES

A fond farewell

Michelle Reeve looks back on her BBSRC internship at the Ri during the CHRISTMAS LECTURES.

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Blog S. L. Bragg, Chief Scientist at Rolls-Royce Ltd., gives his Discourse 'Oscillations and Noise in Jet Engines' in 1963. 

History of science

The unheard history of the Friday Evening Discourses

Jane Harrison delves into our archive of audio recordings and explains how you can help preserve this unique legacy of our

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Blog The first ionization spectrometer designed and constructed by William Henry Bragg in 1912-13.

History of science

Spotlight on Kathleen Lonsdale

Kathleen Lonsdale was an Ri scientist, Quaker and pacifist, whose ground-breaking research in crystallography was conducted

Spotlight on Kathleen Lonsdale Read more
Blog Mount Everest

Art, culture and society

The Best Science Videos of 2013

A top ten list of this year's best, most inspiring science videos curated by the Ri Channel team.

The Best Science Videos of 2013 Read more
Blog A black and white photograph showing Eric Laithwaite giving lecture at the Royal Institution

CHRISTMAS LECTURES

The gyroscope, an engineer and the CHRISTMAS LECTURES

Eric Laithwaite was a British electrical engineer and presenter of the 1974 CHRISTMAS LECTURES who sparked a controversial

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Blog Two science beakers with coloured liquid

Art, culture and society

Behind-the-scenes with Asap SCIENCE

From hangover cures to mind-blowing facts, find out how Asap SCIENCE is attempting to popularise online science.

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Top five: Chain reaction machines

The best examples of Rube-Goldberg machines from across the web.

Top five: Chain reaction machines Read more

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