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CHRISTMAS LECTURES

What I've learned working with the Ri's Digital Team

As his time at the Ri comes to an end, and he prepares to return to his PhD research, Matt Greenwell reflects on his experience

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Art, culture and society

Globe of the Moon

Zofia Wyszomirska-Noga made a very special discovery in the Royal Institution archives. This is the story of the Globe of the

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Art, culture and society

The best science videos of 2016

The Ri channel team pick their favourite science videos from the last 12 months.

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Art, culture and society

How we do the Twitter quiz

Digital Media Officer Anthony Lewis explains how to use Twitter's image cropping algorithm to create a whimsical quiz.

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CHRISTMAS LECTURES

To space and back! The view from a CHRISTMAS LECTURES assistant

Abby Guillermo, a PhD student from the University of Oxford, shares her experience as a 2015 CHRISTMAS LECTURES assistant.

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Blog The earth from a distance, with a spaceship satelite coming towards it
Art, culture and society

The best science videos of 2015

The Ri Channel team pick their favourite science videos from the last year.

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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

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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.

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