Colin Blakemore moves onto explaining the internal sensory systems in our bodies in his third CHRISTMAS LECTURE of his 1982 series. We all know about just five of the senses: we know about them ...

In the second lecture of the series, Colin Blakemore explores the science behind the senses, with some animal guests to demonstrate. Just like photometers, microphones, compasses, smoke detectors, and ...

Science and art have always been intertwined, and often met right here at the Ri. Discover more about our cultural history of experimentation and collaboration. Since its foundation in 1799, the Royal ...

Discover how your brain builds reality—and why it sometimes gets it wrong. Imagine your entire life, everything you see, hear, and feel, as a first-person movie. Your brain is the director, producer, ...

Honorary and Emeritus Professors 1813–1823 Humphry Davy 1852–1866 William Thomas Brande 1887–1893 John Tyndall 1905–1919 John William Strutt, 3rd Lord Rayleigh 1921–1940 Joseph John Thomson 1963–1964 ...

Ten previously unattributed notebooks in the Royal Institution’s archive have now been identified as written by the physicist John Tyndall (c1822–1893). John Tyndall was born in County Carlow in south ...