Dan Lee, one of the project directors, is giving a talk in Kirkwall tonight on the 2026 season of excavation at Skaill farm, Rousay.

Visit the planetarium. Become a dark matter detective. Help to build Microbe City. Make a photo from sunlight. Make a marine monster. Learn about the life of the shore., and the underworld world of di...

Archaeologists from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) have helped uncover what could be a 1,000-year-old Viking church on the island of Swona.

Driftwood gathers barnacles, piers develop seaweed, slipways attract limpets – the life of the sea ensures that everything within it becomes part of the activity of the underwater world. And so, wonde...

Come along to see the work in progress on studying the marine life that has built up around the little island during its months in the harbour. Local marine scientists will be on hand to help explain ...

It was washed up on the rocks below the cliffs of Rothiesholm in 1808 and if it was a basking shark then it was fifteen feet longer than anything ever recorded. And you can see a small piece of it in ...