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From The Royal Institution. Ever wondered about the secrets behind pyrotechnics? Discover the science that makes these spectacular displays possible. This lecture was filmed at the Ri on Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Matthew Tosh is a presenter, pyrotechnician, safety and training consultant. Matthew creates exceptional experiences and helps people tell stories through presenting,…
From The Royal Institution. Find out about the two words that will dictate people’s responses in conversations. Watch the full video on how conversational analysis works here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QbxjXDwXU
From The Royal Institution. What does a NASA scientist thinks about the future of interstellar travel? Find out about the challenges and the realities of travelling beyond our solar system. Buy Les’s book ‘A Traveller’s Guide to the Stars’: https://geni.us/fwewWAR Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/KYPggcRNEDg The age-old dream of venturing forth into the cosmos and perhaps…
From The Royal Institution. Find out what impressed Thomas Hertog after his first meeting with Stephen Hawking – his science, or his philosophy? Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/fY3MbKNNG8o
From The Royal Institution. How can genetic testing and DNA typing help solve crimes? And what are the issues with using these techniques? Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe If you liked this, watch Turi’s most recent lecture for us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LgA4YG_3AI Turi started her career in archaeology, first in Canada and later reading for a…
From The Royal Institution. Watch Eugenia’s talk about applying mathematics to everyday life using category theory: https://youtu.be/48VqWQ2YbGk
From The Royal Institution. Category theory is an abstract branch of mathematics – but did you know it can be both fun, and extremely useful for everyday life? Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/uKsjtOy7Tok Buy Eugenia’s book here: https://geni.us/GBfELuE Watch this clear and engaging talk on category theory, as Eugenia sheds light on how her speciality…
From The Royal Institution. Category theory is an abstract branch of mathematics – but did you know it can be both fun, and extremely useful for everyday life? Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/uKsjtOy7Tok Buy Eugenia’s book here: https://geni.us/GBfELuE Watch this clear and engaging talk on category theory, as Eugenia sheds light on how her speciality…
From The Royal Institution. What is light pollution, and why is it important for us to tackle it? Find out why natural darkness is essential for the environment, our wellbeing, and life on earth. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/Wn8bl_p9afk Buy Johan’s book here: https://geni.us/lrnlQDR Johan Eklöf is a Swedish bat scientist and writer, most known…
From The Royal Institution. Join Richard Ellis as he discusses his spectacular discoveries in modern cosmology over the last 40 years. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/izAsuw0zzak Read Richard’s book here: https://geni.us/uBe2lf Astronomers are like time travellers. They scan the night sky for the outermost galaxies that first came into being when our universe was a…
From The Royal Institution. Metabolites are small molecules that grow within cells and tissues, influencing protein structure and function to maintain life – and the way they function has implications for treating aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and long-COVID. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/EWqFMxECon0 Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Priyanka Joshi is a Research Fellow and…
From The Royal Institution. The nail, the magnet, and the pump – why are these three of the most important inventions of all time? Watch the Q&A with Roma here: https://youtu.be/E3ROM0SgKOI Buy Roma’s book here: https://geni.us/FeDAo3 Award-winning engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the nail,…
From The Royal Institution. Can philosophy actually improve your life? Find out how to reach your goals using guidance from different philosphical theories. Watch the Q&A with Valerie here: https://youtu.be/KkOWZ5imnMs Buy Valerie’s book here: https://geni.us/PWGZ2 What do you want out of life? The things we care about in life often conflict, preventing us from doing…
From The Royal Institution. Why does modern astronomy often sound like science fiction? And how do objects like supermassive black holes, wormholes and warp drives fit into our current understanding of physics? Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/Pg8jxhCO0m8 Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe This event was recorded at the Royal Institution on 23 March 2023.…
From The Royal Institution. Discover Stephen Hawking’s final theories on the origin of time and the universe, which he and Thomas Hertog worked on together for 20 years. Watch the Q&A with Thomas here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGIw2Dup3sg Buy Thomas’s book here: https://geni.us/K2Avz Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his life was how our…
From The Royal Institution. Is it possible to talk to whales and dolphins? And what might you get out of the conversation? Book for our summer proramme of events here, in-person and online: https://www.rigb.org/whats-on Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Tom Mustill is a biologist turned filmmaker and writer, specialising in stories where people and…
From The Royal Institution. What’s the story behind the five axioms of Euclidean geometry – and how is post-Euclidean geometry linked to modern physics? Watch the Q&A with Yang-Hui He here: https://youtu.be/taB75bCk8J0 Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe From geometry’s classical beginnings, via the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, to the present day, Yang-Hui He takes…
From The Royal Institution. How can the worlds of science and tech benefit from imagination? Discover a six-step process to harness your imagination and spark new ideas. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/YZr0weyMFQw Buy Martin’s book ‘The Imagination Machine’ here: https://geni.us/s5dgjPd 00:00 Intro and demo 10:16 What is imagination? 16:09 Common misconceptions about the imagination 21:21…
From The Royal Institution. Photographing a black hole used to be science fiction. But in April 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope made it reality – and Ziri Younsi was part of the team behind the breakthrough. Watch the Q&A with Ziri here: https://youtu.be/AwBRPrOBVTY See our playlist of talks about black holes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrZHfNEDZx9TYta68iHw8XiH35kmxYR What are…
From The Royal Institution. Parasites are the most abundant form of life on Earth. Find out how biologists survey global parasite biodiversity with the aim of preventing ecosystem collapse. Buy the book here: https://geni.us/vVt4B7 Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/w4NFM4t0xgs This livestream was recorded at the Royal Institution on 23 January 2023. Scott L Gardner is…
From The Royal Institution. Forensic experts can read blood spatters, and use the information to help get vital clues about crimes. Watch the first of our 2022 Christmas lectures about forensic science here, looking at how to identify a dead body: https://youtu.be/Bo18brJhK1I Watch the second lecture here, on finding a missing body: https://youtu.be/yIFcRjCq0TQ And the…
From The Royal Institution. Discover the surprising history of proof, a mathematically vital concept. In this talk John covers the areas of number theory, non-Euclidean geometry, topology, and logic, and peer into the deep chasm between natural number arithmetic and the real numbers. Buy John’s book here: https://geni.us/mathsproof Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/aPyWM5cQkeQ This video…
From The Royal Institution. Superconductors could revolutionise electricity production – if scientists can crack the code of getting them to work at room temperature. Find out more with Felix Flicker. Buy Felix’s book ‘The Magick of Physics’ here: https://geni.us/wVto Watch Felix’s lecture on the magic of physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3wSaLSXdBM Felix Flicker is a lecturer in physics…
From The Royal Institution. High-performance, realistic computer simulations are crucially important for science and engineering, even allowing scientists to predict how individual molecules will behave. Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/aRGH5lC0pLc Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Scientists have always used models. Since the ancient Ptolemaic model of the universe through to renaissance astrolabes, models have…
From The Royal Institution. How could we create a universe if there was no matter, cosmos or empty space? Could maths be the secret ingredient? Watch the Q&A with Manil here: https://youtu.be/9Q4WvXkXhMs Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Explore the natural progression of ideas needed to design our world with maths. Starting with numbers and…
From The Royal Institution. Over the last ten years science has discovered some fascinating new findings about the minds of dogs. Find out more with Jules Howard and Lilly. Watch Jules’s full lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcHw3EgR9PY Get Jules’s book ‘Wonderdog’: https://geni.us/gBAsA36 Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe — A very special thank you to our Patreon…
From The Royal Institution. What’s behind the rise in the use of DNA in genealogy and forensics? Find out with the BBC’s favourite genealogist, Professor Turi King, including the first immigration case and her work identifying the bones of King Richard III. Watch the Q&A with Turi here: https://youtu.be/v_0aa20SHac Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe…
From The Royal Institution. Scientific and technological advances have enabled us to zoom into the biological world. We can get down to the biomolecular scale, a domain where quantum phenomena can take place and therefore cannot be neglected. Watch the Q&A with Alexandra here: https://youtu.be/_rElT2_NukY Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe This talk was recorded…
From The Royal Institution. Professor Sue Black investigates a mysterious crime scene, and reveals some of the forensic techniques that are used to track down criminals. This is the second of the 2022 Royal Institution annual Christmas lectures. Watch the first lecture here: https://youtu.be/Bo18brJhK1I Watch the third lecture here: https://youtu.be/p377HO6pyLY Subscribe for regular science videos:…