During school holidays we run a range of exciting hands-on workshops, bringing to life all areas of science – including mathematics, computing and engineering. All workshops take place in our building ...

Join Ig Nobel founder Marc Abrahams alongside Ig Nobel laureates to celebrate the awards which make you laugh, then think. Every year the Ig Nobel Prizes honor ten achievements that make people LAUGH, ...

The Ri has a clear vision that ‘Science is for Everyone’ and it is our belief that everyone should have equitable access to science. Through our packed event programme available in person or online, ...

Put your building, computational thinking and problem solving skills to use by making a variety of programmable models using LEGO. In this session with Brian Egles, you will work in pairs to build a ...

The continual struggle between bacterial pathogens and their hosts provides an illustration of evolution in action, driven by changes in the bacterial DNA. Students use restriction enzyme digests and ...

This dynamic session brings science to life through movement and play, helping students explore the invisible forces that shape our world. Through creative activities and energetic games, students ...

Discover what a colour actually is, understand how objects become coloured, and how Chemists can manipulate these aspects to produce dyes. In this workshop students will discover what a colour ...

A workshop that is out of this world! Using lots of hands-on activities we will: represent cosmic distances in a variety of ways; re-tell the true story of how astrophysicists used maths to classify a ...

Can mathematics help you to win a TV game show? In this workshop with Mike Fletcher, students will explore this idea, and see if mathematics and probability theory can be used to significantly ...