Dr Chris van Tulleken reveals the revolutionary science inside our bodies when we eat, in the 2024 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI. Help us to bring young people and ...

Swarm engineering expert Sabine Hauert explains how recent developments in robotics and AI can revolutionise our lives, and why these swarm systems can be trusted. Swarms in nature, including birds, ...

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Johan Mentink explores a brand new paradigm in computing, and looks at how it might offer faster solutions that can support scientific breakthroughs. Our brains consume around 20 Watts of power, a ...

For generations, scientists have pondered the age old question, could humans live forever? To begin answering this question, we have to understand the age-limiting processes inside our bodies. Join ...

Join the Ri's own Demo Team for the launch of the 2025 Spring programme! Join the Ri Demo Team as we kick off 2025 looking back at our favourite demonstrations from the past year. Giving you a sneak ...

Join renowned cosmologist George Efstathiou as he explores how cosmology has changed over recent decades, and what secrets are still to be discovered. The standard model of cosmology as we know it has ...

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The 2024 CHRISTMAS LECTURES are on BBC Four and iPlayer 29, 30 and 31 December at 9pm, and on our YouTube channel for those outside the UK. In this year’s Christmas Lectures, Dr Chris van Tulleken ...

Chris van Tulleken is an NHS infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, one of the UK’s leading science presenters and a New York Times bestselling author. Chris grew ...