Meet Professor Dame Sue Black, DBE - this year's lecturer for the Royal Institution's CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution. Professor Dame Sue Black DBE is a forensic anthropologist, ...

In 1965 the BBC commissioned this programme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of William Lawrence Bragg winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, jointly with his father William Henry Bragg, for ...

Join Jim Al-Khalili as he interviews Chris Packham about his life and work, for a live recording of popular BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific. What turns a childhood fascination with animals, ...

Saiful Islam explores the latest in new battery and solar materials, how this is impacting energy solutions, and what has changed in the 10 years since his famous CHRISTMAS LECTURES. The supply of low ...

As we celebrate their 200th anniversary, dive into the history of the CHRISTMAS LECTURES — from Michael Faraday to the age of video streaming. In the early 19th century, science lectures specifically ...

Geneticist Carola Vinuesa showcases leading-edge breakthroughs in our understanding of genome function, and how this work exonerated a wrongly convicted mother. The human genome contains over 3 ...

Louisa Charlotte Hamilton married John Tyndall, then Superintendent of the House and Director of the Laboratory at the Royal Institution, in Westminster Abbey on 29 February 1876, when he was in the ...

Using fossil records and his own work uncovering extinct species, paleontologist Steve Brusatte rewinds 150 million years to explore how dinosaurs evolved into today's birds. Birds live all around us, ...

When mentioned in passing, quantum theory can seem mystifying, with talk of uncertainty, being in two places at once and teleportation. However, it is a theory that arose from a need to explain ...

Everything that happens below ground sustains all life above it – yet we rarely think about this mysterious, dark underland. In this talk, Frank Ashwood scratches the surface and takes us on an ...

They're back! Join Festival of the Spoken Nerd and friends for an evening of science, songs, stand-up maths and more. Join Festival of the Spoken Nerd and friends as they return to the Royal ...

2025 Christmas Lecturer Maggie Aderin-Pocock returns to the Ri to explain what the James Webb Space Telescope's latest findings can tell us about the early universe. Can the James Webb Space Telescope ...