Albemarle Street

Baroness Susan Greenfield, controversial Director of the Royal Institution, has been made redundant. The much-cherished venue for science communication, on Albemarle Street, Mayfair, reportedly made the decision as a cost-cutting measure. The Baroness is now pursuing an industrial tribunal on the grounds of sex discrimination. …

Time once again for the Royal Institution’s science pub quiz, which runs tonight from 7pm in their funky Time and Space bar. Pit your wits against 60 questions designed to test your knowledge of popular science, put together and co-hosted by Londonist M@. The questions …

Who would have thought that fish embryos could be so hypnotic? Under the microscope, they tumble and turn like marbles, executing the occasional piscine wriggle at camera. These dainty roe are zebrafish, whose unusual transparency is a boon for medical research. Scientists intensely breed the …

Forget the Fourth Plinth, there’s a new art space in town that needs filling. And you don’t have to be an artistic luminary to enter. The Royal Institution has two niches it wants to beautify. The Grade I listed building on Albemarle Street, Mayfair will …

What is a curiosity shop exactly? Well for us here at Londonist we think of a curiosity shop as containing all the mysterious joy of a junk shop with all the otherworldy mystique of an exotic antiques emporium. By rights London should be full of …

Ah, the Royal Institution. Not a latter-day Bedlam for the blue of blood, but one of London’s foremost scientific centres of excellence. It was here that a certain Mr Faraday cobbled together the first electric generator and changed the world forever. The venerable organisation has …