Understanding the chain fountain The Royal Society 2014-01-15 | Over 2.5 million viewers, including many physicists, have been astonished by Steve Mould's videos of a chain flowing along its own length from a pot to the floor below. Apparently defying gravity, the chain rises above the pot as a fountain before falling down. Proceedings A has published a paper which explains why this fountain occurs by considering the forces bringing successive links into motion. In this podcast, authors Mark Warner and John Biggins explain what is going on.For more information see: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/470/2163/20130689For a collection of related problems to work through go to http://www.rutherford-physics.org.uk
Summer Science Live 2023 | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-07-10 | Join Fran Scott and Roma Agrawal for Summer Science Live 2023! Find out why a tropical fish could hold the key to better mental health,🐠 become a volcano detective, looking for signs of an impending eruption, 🌋 and guide a microscopic robot performing surgery within the human eye. 👀Plus learn what it was like to be Britain's first astronaut from the trailblazing Helen Sharman. 👨🚀#science #SummerScience #biology #physics #chemistry #space #health #climatechange #robot #mars Summer Science Live returns, bringing you the highlights from the Royal Society's annual Summer Science Exhibition, a free 5 days showcase of enthralling research from around the UK.00:00 - Countdown01:04 - Intro04:08 - Sensing volcanoes15:37 - From Mars to bone disease28:29 - UK's 1st astronaut: Helen Sharman43:13 - Drumming for health53:58 - Young researchers zone59:25 - Improving chemotherapy for children1:12:59 - Hannah Cloke on extreme weather1:23:28 - Creating immersive 3D sound1:36:31 - What are whiskers for?1:42:30 - Historical treasures1:51:16 - The Great Ape Challenge2:00:20 - Robotic eye surgery2:12:39 - Counting electrons2:22:36 - Zebrafish and mental health2:30:44 - The smells of space2:40:00 - Revolutionising rehabilitation2:51:47 - Mission to Jupiter's moons3:02:07 - OutroThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Communicating Covid - with Jonathan Van-Tam | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-06-29 | Join us for the David Attenborough Award Lecture given by 2022 winner, Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam.#covid19 #health #politics #pandemic #virus Whilst pandemic vaccines and antiviral drugs have been used at scale in the past, the initial severity and spread of COVID-19 required additional extensive public health countermeasures. A series of communication challenges was also inevitable in both political and public spaces. This was intensified by the lengthy duration of the crisis, the ever-changing epidemiology and a changing virus. Scientists and clinician-scientists were under pressure as never before to communicate with clarity, integrity, and authenticity. In this lecture, Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam discusses and reflects on his own journey through this challenging landscape. Professor Van-Tam was awarded the 2022 prize for his critical role in public engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic as UK Deputy Chief Medical Officer, through national and international media.The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded annually to an individual for outstanding public engagement with science. The award, open to everyone, recognises high quality public engagement activities. The award is named after the United Kingdom’s best-loved naturalist and broadcaster, and honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, David Attenborough. The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Carbon-based nanoelectronics: from simulations to applications | the Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-06-28 | The Rising Star Africa Prize 2022 lecture given by Dr Khalil Tamersit.Boosting the performance of electronic instruments and systems through the continual miniaturization of electronic devices was an approach that has been followed by Semiconductor Industry for more than five decades, and has led to the significant electronics development that we are witnessing today. The basic material that has accompanied this spectacular evolution is Silicon. Now, there are billions of silicon transistors in the current microprocessors, whereas there were only thousands in the 70s. However, silicon-based nanotransistors are reaching their limits in terms of miniaturization and energy efficiency. Thus, different nanodevices based on emerging nanomaterials are urgently needed to continue in this evolutionary approach while extending the lifetime of Moore's Law. Dr. Khalil Tamersit will describe how the simulation approaches and computational models are used to propose and optimize new carbon-based electronic devices (eg nanotransistors, nanosensors, nanobiosensors, and micromachines) while paving the way for a post-silicon future.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Could we have babies in space? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-06-13 | No human being has ever given birth in space, but that will have to change if we want to become a multi-planetary species. What are the challenges?#space #physics #health #mars Everything, from conception, to birth, to early development of a child would by impacted by conditions in space. Would a child born in space or on Mars ever be able to return to Earth?Watch next:How to live on the Moon ▶ youtu.be/z_m0Prsht2kWas there ever life on Mars ▶ youtube.com/live/9hxvwl9lj3sThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The path to a sustainable world with professor Steven Chu | the Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-05-31 | International lecture given by Professor Steven Chu, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and former United States Secretary of Energy.The multiple industrial and agricultural revolutions have transformed the world. However, an unintended consequence of this progress is that we are changing the climate of our planet. In addition to the climate risks, we will need to provide enough clean energy, water and food of a more prosperous world that may grow to 11 billion by 2100. The talk will discuss the significant technical challenges and potential solutions that could provide better paths to a more sustainable future. How we transition from where we are now to where we need to be within 50 years, is arguably the most pressing set of issues that science, innovation and public policy have to address.Steven Chu is Professor of Physics, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Environmental Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics for laser cooling and trapping of atoms. Other contributions include precision atom interferometry, optical tweezers of biomolecules, and the first biological studies using single molecule FRET. His current research is in molecular and cell physiology, medical imaging, nanoparticle synthesis for bioimaging, and battery research. He was US Secretary of Energy from 2009 to 2013. He has 35 honorary degrees, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and seven foreign academies.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The wonderful world of vitamin B12 | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-05-22 | B12 is the world's most expensive vitamin, and the scarcest vitamin in the human body. 🥑 Vegans and vegetarians are more likely than meat eaters to be B12 deficient.#Health #vitamin #vitaminb12 #biology #food #science #vegan #climatechange As the world transitions to sustainable plant-based diets, deficiency in B12, which can cause dangerous health effects, will rise. Finding ways to fortify food with B12 may help to keep people, as well as the planet, healthy.This video features collaborative research focused on the importance of Vitamin B12 to human health and exploring how dietary deficiency can be addressed by the incorporation of Vitamin B12 into edible plants. Some of this research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UKRI, through a Follow-on Fund grant to the John Innes Centre, Quadram Institute Bioscience, and LettUs Grow.Thanks to Wavelength Studio, Bristol.Watch next: Climate change and food choices ▶ youtu.be/neo_lSjNi1kBrian Cox presents: feeding the future ▶ youtube.com/live/507b0knEnOkHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presents: the future of food ▶ youtu.be/tZCMRblNi8sWhy donuts are so hard to resist ▶ youtu.be/_yYNyovR63QThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶ royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
New tools to fight tuberculosis | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-05-16 | The Africa Prize Lecture 2022 is given by Professor Novel Njweipi Chegou.According to the American Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, tuberculosis has been affecting humanity for over 9000 years. The bacterium that causes the disease might have been in existence for over 3 million years. Although curable, this disease that has over the years been referred to as “the white plaque”, “consumption”, “the captain of all these men of death” amongst others, currently still ranks as a top single infectious killer, killing more people than HIV/AIDs. Over 10 million people fell ill with tuberculosis in 2021 and about 1.6 million died, majority of whom were in low- and middle-income countries. In this talk, Professor Chegou will discuss the challenges that are involved in the control of tuberculosis, the need for new tools that may assist in the control of the disease, and the contribution that laboratories such as his, that are situated in high burden African countries, are making in the fight against the disease. The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Remaking ourselves: human genome editing | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-05-12 | Dr Philip Ball, winner of the 2022 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, joins us to discuss human genome editing, and the importance of keeping historical and cultural perspectives visible in these debates.Our biotechnologies have entered uncharted territory. With the ability to precisely edit the human genome, we have the potential for systematic control over inheritance that goes beyond Darwinian evolution. Stem cells can be used to create embryo-like structures that may or may not develop as normal embryos do, and artificial brain-like organs grown in dishes raise questions about the fundamental definition of consciousness.We should be prepared to be unsettled by these developments in what zoologist Jacques Loeb in 1890 called “a technology of living substance”. But although it is easy to spin dystopian tales out of them, any consideration of how to regulate these technologies and of their ethical and societal implications will be deepened and enriched by close attention to their historical and cultural dimensions.Dr Philip Ball, winner of the 2022 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, joins us to discuss the importance of these debates, and of keeping historical and cultural perspectives visible and explicit.The Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture 2022 is awarded to Dr Philip Ball, for his outstanding commitments to sharing the social, cultural, and historical context of science through award-winning science communication in books, articles, and as a speaker and commentator.
Computer vision: learning to see the world | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-05-04 | The Bakerian Prize Lecture 2023 is given by Professor Andrew ZissermanComputer vision is a field where the goal is to enable machines to understand and use the visual content of images and videos in a similar manner to humans. In this talk Professor Zisserman will describe how machines are able to learn to recognise objects and actions from a temporal sequence of video frames, together with the audio and speech that accompanies them - an approach that is inspired by how infants may 'learn to see'. He will show applications of computer vision to image search, to recognising sign language (BSL), and to generating video descriptions for the visually impaired.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Welcome to Science in the Making | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-04-24 | The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The making, keeping and losing of memory | Ferrier Prize Lecture 2023 The Royal Society 2023-04-21 | Ferrier Prize Lecture 2023 given by Professor Richard MorrisThe concept of memory is used in many branches of science. In neuroscience, it refers to experience-dependent changes in the nervous system that collectively constitute memory traces of varying accuracy, and from which we can later recall earlier events, places, facts or learned skills. Remembering the birth of a child, the layout of the city where we live, that canaries are yellow, or a well practised tennis stroke. Memory is important and it helps each of us to travel in time and so define our own individuality.Analysis in both humans and animals typically distinguishes the separate processes of encoding, storage, consolidation, and recall. Exciting major advances have been made in recent years that reflect deepening understanding of these processes. The making of a memory trace about an episode is now believed to involve specific patterns of brain activity that release the major neurotransmitter of the brain – glutamate. This binds to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors at synapses in the hippocampus that act as coincidence detectors to trigger memory encoding and to tag specific synapses. This discovery rested on the shoulders of brilliant earlier physiological discoveries about synaptic plasticity.Keeping a memory - storage - involves a different set of so-called AMPA glutamate receptors that are shuttled into the synaptic junctions between neurons to help enhance their strength. Embedded within appropriate neural circuitry, the result will be a set of distributed memory traces mediating altered connectivity across large numbers of neurons and their synaptic connections. Cellular consolidation, like the fixing process of traditional photographic images, may then kick in to enable a subset of these traces to be kept for sufficiently long to be eligible for the overnight brain-wide component of consolidation that occurs during slow-wave sleep. In the absence of consolidation, forgetting can take place, but forgetting is deceptive as it is sometimes true loss but other times merely a failure to access memory traces that may be still there. Memory loss is feared, but all too often forgetting is benign – a valuable feature of a system that guards itself against saturation. It can, however, become severe and notably in neurodevelopmental disorders and neurogenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s Disease, a condition about which there is now growing hope that we can ameliorate facets of the disease process or at least the symptoms of memory loss associated with it.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Ottoline Leyser: the story of my life | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-04-19 | Croonian Prize Lecture 2023 given by Professor Dame Ottoline LeyserStories are an immensely powerful communication tool. People find linear narratives compelling and this shapes how we think. This is as true in science as in any other domain. Stories structure our thinking and aid understanding, but they can also constrain our thinking unhelpfully, and embed assumptions that are unwarranted. What’s more, however attractive a story may be, with a beginning, a middle and an end, life is not like that. Life does not work in linear narratives or we would not have to ask “What came first, the chicken or the egg?"A key challenge in modern biology is to find ways to tell stories about these dynamic, non-linear processes that can aid our understanding, while supporting the open mindedness needed for progress. Leyser’s research in plant developmental biology has tried to address this issue, a challenge that is equally relevant for her current role in science policy. Her Croonian Lecture will include examples from both of these areas of her work.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Can flying ever be sustainable? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-04-06 | As passenger numbers continue to grow and the impact of air travel on the climate gets worse, solutions are needed. 🛫 #airtravel #flying #airplanes #climatechange #sustainability #science #netzero We take a look at some of the alternative fuels that could help aviation become sustainable and ask whether a change in fuel alone will be enough.Read the Royal Society's report on net zero aviation:royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/net-zero-aviation-fuelsWatch more films made with BBC ideas:Why soil is the most amazing thing on Earth▶ youtu.be/MmJUj4Aa2kMSecrets of the deep ocean▶ youtu.be/4QU2SkqhTa0How the humble battery can save the world▶ youtu.be/CVpvWJY1Cd The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Five graphs that changed the world - with Adam Rutherford | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-03-24 | Data visualisation helps us to understand the world. It also has the power to change it. Narrated by Adam Rutherford.#graphs #data #datavisualization #science #AdamRutherford #FlorenceNightingale Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWatch next: The politics of DNA and the story of eugenics with Adam Rutherford: youtube.com/live/hIIgAIB5AWwWatch our other films with BBC Ideas:Five things you never knew about whiskers▶ youtu.be/q3h2CRhie3gWhat would a world without vaccines be like?▶ youtu.be/yi7gyTqweZcThe killer disease humanity eradicated▶ youtu.be/dnHtY7WgHH0Why science getting it wrong isn't always a bad thing▶ youtu.be/bKjafJGDGucThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Young Peoples Book Prize 2022 schools video compilation The Royal Society 2023-03-14 | The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Young Peoples Book Prize 2022 Award Ceremony | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-03-09 | How do you build a skyscraper? Can we farm insects, or eat microbes? What is rewilding? And what is Rosalind Franklin famous for?The six books shortlisted for the Young People’s Book Prize 2022 have launched children across the UK on a quest to meet scientists and engineers in past and present history, find answers to the world's most pressing challenges and discover the wide range of life forms on Earth, from the incredible world of microbes to the wolves of Yellowstone Park.This year, a record-breaking 720 UK schools, science clubs and youth groups have taken up the challenge of judging this year’s prize. Over 14,000 young judges have poured over the pages full of bridges, beakers and beetles and have now declared their winner. This year's award ceremony will again be hosted by BAFTA-winning TV presenter Lindsey Russell and is an excellent occasion to meet the authors and discover this year’s winner. Don’t forget to grab a pen and paper as your knowledge of the shortlisted books will also be put to test in our Young People’s Book Prize Big Quiz!The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Astronomy by microscope? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-03-06 | It makes sense to use a telescope to look up at the heavens, 🔭 but what can we learn from using a microscope instead? 🔬 #space #meteor #astronomy #biology Meteorites are natural objects that survive their fall to Earth from space. Almost all are fragments of ancient asteroids, formed at the birth of the Solar System, approx 4567 million years ago. Meteorites carry within them a record of the history of the solar system. Tiny grains within meteorites have come from other stars, giving information about the stellar neighbourhood in which the Sun was born. And some meteorites contain organic compounds – materials which might have helped life on Earth to get started! 🌴Watch next: Was there ever life on Mars? ▶ youtube.com/live/9hxvwl9lj3sHunting the Winchcombe meteorite ▶ youtu.be/y-4-BuYZqa8Living on the Moon ▶ youtu.be/z_m0Prsht2kStreamText offers a full page of captions and you can personalise the display adjusting the font, the font size and background. You can also open the link in a separate webpage, adjust the size of the page and place it at the top/bottom of the screen on which you are viewing the event if you would like to view the event and captions on one page. It needs to be opened/copied into a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. streamtext.net/player?event=RoyalSociety The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-societs
Modern scientist vs. 1600s scientist: Moon landing | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-02-14 | Did you know the first Moon landing occurred in 1638? 🚀 (At least in the imagination!) Modern planetary scientist Dr Suzie Imber critiques John Wilkins's incredible 17th c. book on space travel with help of Royal Society librarian Keith Moore and readings by Lemn Sissay. #space #physics #history #moon #LemnSissay Watch next 👇Physicist Dr Mark Richards critiques John Evelyn's 1661 book on urban air pollution▶ youtu.be/adJ0tTpSqNEFind out how scientists want yo 3D print a Moon base ▶ youtu.be/z_m0Prsht2kWatch Dar Mark Richards's full talk at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2019: youtu.be/UEIRwAuhqeQSir David Attenborough and Brian Cox talk Charles Darwin ▶ youtu.be/6yEX_OI0xbQThe incredible life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: youtu.be/PraybTdD_9IThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
We need to talk about land | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-02-01 | We need land. 🚵♂️ It gives us food, a place to live, protection from flooding and mental wellbeing. But land is a finite resource and if we do not use it wisely, we might just run out.#landscape #beavers #biodiversity #climatechange #nature Esme Todd meets Judy Ling Wong and Sam Bridgewater to find out how using clever science to create mixed landscapes and working with nature can help solve our land conundrum.See if you can create a sustainable landscape using out interactive: royalsociety.org/assets/multifunctional_land/index.htmlFind out more at royalsociety.org/landscapesThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Restoring the Royal Societys medieval calendar | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-01-27 | This mystery medieval calendar has been in the Royal Society's archive for about 350 years, simply labeled 'a very curious almanack' Join us for the restoration and discover the secrets hidden in its (sometimes poisonous!) pigments.#restoration #chemistry #history #medieval Watch next: A modern physicist critiques John Evelyn's 1661 book on air pollution ▶ youtu.be/adJ0tTpSqNEFind out more with about our almanac on @googleartsculture artsandculture.google.com/story/6QVxDXpcN2LcMQRead our blog about the pigments found on the manuscript: royalsociety.org/blog/2023/01/colours-of-the-seasons Conservation carried out with the support of the National Manuscripts Conservation TrustThanks to 'Team Pigment' members Professor Andrew Beeby, Professor Richard Gameson (Durham University) and Kate Nicholson (Northumbria University), and to Sayaka Fukada, book and paper conservator.Watch next: A modern physicist critiques John Evelyn's 1661 book on air pollution ▶ youtu.be/adJ0tTpSqNEThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
An introduction to Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) The Royal Society 2023-01-23 | Find out more by reading our report: From privacy to partnership:royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/privacy-enhancing-technologiesThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
DNA graffiti: mutation patterns in cancer | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-01-12 | human cancers are highly individual. Etched into the DNA of cancers are graffiti-like mutation patterns, which could reveal underlying biological abnormalities, unique to each person’s cancer, with potential for application in precision medicine. In this lecture, Professor Serena Nik-Zainal will describe how her team have explored the extraordinary DNA graffiti that has been seen in human cancers, using a combination of big data computational approaches and systematic experimental methods. She will provide an account of how they have designed algorithms that could be used to interpret cancer genomes for clinical purposes and how they have taken steps towards clinical validation studies for her algorithms. Professor Nik-Zainal will touch on her team’s recent endeavour, reporting the largest cohort of WGS cancers worldwide of nearly 20,000 patients recruited via the NHS. She will end by bringing the audience through a selection of real cancer WGS patient storiesStreamText offers a full page of captions and you can personalise the display adjusting the font, the font size and background. You can also open the link in a separate webpage, adjust the size of the page and place it at the top/bottom of the screen on which you are viewing the event if you would like to view the event and captions on one page. It needs to be opened/copied into a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. streamtext.net/player?event=RoyalSociety The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The weird world of approximate physics | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2023-01-06 | Humans tend to master the physics of liquids at an early age. Robots, not so much. Find out how the physics of video games can be used to teach robots to be less clumsy 🤖☕#physics #gaming #programming #entertainment #robotJoin Dr Kartic Subr and Tatiana López Guevara on a journey into the world of 'approximate physics' and find out how the same science used for Disney movies and video games can teach care robots how to pour drinks.Watch next 👇You and AI with Brian Cox ▶ youtu.be/Am2mo7BhQrQThe race for a vaccine with Brian Cox ▶ youtu.be/xWpq3hHOmhs5 things you never knew about whiskers ▶ youtu.be/q3h2CRhie3gThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Five mysteries of the Universe - with Carlos Frenk | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-12-28 | Our Universe is full of mystery. There is so much still to learn. Cosmologist Carlos Frenk explores five of the biggest mysteries from white holes to dark matter.#space #universe #physics #cosmology #multiverse #darkmatter #scienceSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWatch our other films with BBC Ideas:Why soil is the most amazing thing on Earth▶ youtu.be/MmJUj4Aa2kMSecrets of the deep ocean▶ youtu.be/4QU2SkqhTa0How the humble battery can save the world▶ youtu.be/CVpvWJY1CdWhy science getting it wrong isn't always a bad thing▶ youtu.be/bKjafJGDGucThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Can you put a price on nature? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-12-14 | The destruction of nature is the backbone of the economy, but leaving nature alive is worth nothing. Could recognising nature’s true value help save the planet?#biodiversity #nature #economics #money #amazon Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWatch our other films with BBC Ideas:Why soil is the most amazing thing on Earth▶ youtu.be/MmJUj4Aa2kMSecrets of the deep ocean▶ youtu.be/4QU2SkqhTa0How the humble battery can save the world▶ youtu.be/CVpvWJY1CdThe dangers of not getting enough light:▶ youtu.be/LkDMwl5GHhQAntibiotic resistance explained▶ youtu.be/NaHvrb2NmysThe amazing illustrations of Maria Sibylla Merian▶ youtu.be/3WiwkwW18uYWhy science getting it wrong isn't always a bad thing▶ youtu.be/bKjafJGDGucThe hidden clues that reveal who you are▶ youtu.be/OusBQ87IHUQFive things you never knew about whiskers▶ youtu.be/q3h2CRhie3gThe science of choosing your next snack▶ youtu.be/_yYNyovR63QThe exceptional life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin▶ youtu.be/PraybTdD_9IWhat would a world without vaccines be like?▶ youtu.be/yi7gyTqweZcThe killer disease humanity eradicated▶ youtu.be/dnHtY7WgHH0The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Jim Al-Khalili presents the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022 The Royal Society 2022-11-29 | Join us for a panel discussion with this year’s shortlisted authors, followed by the announcement of the winner of the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize, sponsored by Insight Investment.This year’s shortlisted authors Henry Gee, Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Peter Stott, Frans de Waal, Nick Davidson, Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja, will join our host to discuss the unifying themes explored within their books and the integral role that science plays in society and our everyday lives.The books championed by the Royal Society Science Book Prize embody compelling science communication and provide an opportunity for readers to engage more deeply with science in an uncertain world. The five-strong judging panel for 2022 is chaired by neuroscientist, Professor Maria Fitzgerald FRS. She is joined on the panel by representatives from across the worlds of science and culture: television presenter, Kate Humble; physicist and Royal Society University Research Fellow, Dr Josh McFayden; novelist, Mike Gayle, and journalist, writer and technology consultant, Rory Cellan-Jones.Join the discussion at slido:https://app.sli.do/event/41t4KF9ncuLSfr9XpF5zCtWatch previous book prize award ceremonies:Hosted by Professor Brian Cox ▶ youtu.be/mK7fPK1pnoQHosted by Professor Alice Roberts ▶ youtu.be/qtrqqG5_rlMStreamText offers a full page of captions and you can personalise the display adjusting the font, the font size and background. You can also open the link in a separate webpage, adjust the size of the page and place it at the top/bottom of the screen on which you are viewing the event if you would like to view the event and captions on one page. It needs to be opened/copied into a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. streamtext.net/player?event=RoyalSociety The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Jeremy Farrar on philanthropy in a changing world | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-11-24 | Sir Jeremy Farrar is the director of the Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation which supports science to solve urgent health challenges. His lecture will be the ninth in the ‘Science and Civilisation’ series, which was launched by Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics) in 2013 and has been hosted from the outset by the Royal Society.Jeremy’s whole career has been dedicated to protecting and improving global health. As a researcher he specialised in infectious diseases, and he has published more than 600 papers.As well as sharing his expertise, he champions rapid investment in research on Covid-19 testing, treatments and vaccines, and argues that everyone (not only people who live in rich countries) should benefit equally from the discoveries that result.The ‘Science and Civilisation’ lecture series takes its name from the title of the lecture given by Albert Einstein in October 1933 at the Royal Albert Hall, at a major fundraising event on behalf of Cara and three other organisations who had come together as the Refugee Assistance Fund, to help those being expelled from Germany by the Nazis. Cara’s Founding Statement was issued from the ‘Rooms of the Royal Society’ in Burlington House on 22 May 1933, and the two organisations have worked closely together ever since then.StreamText offers a full page of captions and you can personalise the display adjusting the font, the font size and background. You can also open the link in a separate webpage, adjust the size of the page and place it at the top/bottom of the screen on which you are viewing the event if you would like to view the event and captions on one page. It needs to be opened/copied into a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. The link is set to go live at 18:00. streamtext.net/player?event=RoyalSociety The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
What would a world without wheat be like? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-11-22 | Imagine a world without wheat… No bread, no cakes, no pasta and no noodles. But as we speak, the world’s wheat supplies are being ravaged by a dangerous epidemic. 🚜#farming #food #health #biology Join us for the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2022 given by Professor Diane Saunders.Professor Saunders will introduce you to the notorious “polio of agriculture”, the wheat rusts, that throughout history have endangered the production of one of our oldest and most precious food crops.Despite long-standing efforts by a global community to wrestle the wheat rusts into submission, new strains are constantly evolving that can overcome the barriers we create to inhibit infection, and once again leave the world’s wheat crops vulnerable. Professor Saunders will discuss how phenomenal recent scientific advances have created the tools and resources in our arsenal that now have the real potential to finally outsmart these cereal killers and safeguard a sustainable food supply for generations to come.Professor Diane Saunders is a Group Leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. Her research focuses on (re-)emerging plant pathogens that pose a significant threat to agriculture.StreamText offers a full page of captions and you can personalise the display adjusting the font, the font size and background. You can also open the link in a separate webpage, adjust the size of the page and place it at the top/bottom of the screen on which you are viewing the event if you would like to view the event and captions on one page. It needs to be opened/copied into a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. streamtext.net/player?event=RoyalSociety The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Can AI help us think for ourselves? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-11-16 | AI is designed to do the thinking for us, but can it actually help humans to think as well?#AI #Thoughts #brain #learning The Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture 2022 given by Professor Yvonne Rogers FRS.Digital technologies have much potential for helping us think: enhancing how we perceive, attend to, notice, analyse and remember events, people, data and other information. But how do we make it happen - especially against the backdrop of AI which aims to do the thinking for us? Professor Rogers’ research is concerned with designing innovative interfaces that can extend how we think when we learn, work and play. Her approach is to make interfaces interactive and empowering; steering, scaffolding and challenging people to think differently and creatively. In Professor Rogers’ lecture, she will describe how we can open up people’s minds more through designing technology with them in mind.Supported by Microsoft ResearchWatch next: Probability and AI ▶ youtu.be/0aZmCCnZI9ECatch up on our You and Ai series, including a landmark event with Brian Cox:▶ youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg7f-TkW11iXmua4L-A6RVky7EU6pg3oyStreamText offers a full page of captions and you can personalise the display adjusting the font, the font size and background. You can also open the link in a separate webpage, adjust the size of the page and place it at the top/bottom of the screen on which you are viewing the event if you would like to view the event and captions on one page. It needs to be opened/copied into a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. streamtext.net/player?event=RoyalSociety The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶ royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Would you wear living shoes? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-11-11 | Living materials are fabrics, paints and even building materials made with living cells. Would you wear a living shoe that you never had to throw away? 🦠👞#materials #life #biology #bacteria #engineering Imagine a future where roads can self-heal, tiny robotic molecules can assemble themselves into household objects, and living buildings can harvest carbon dioxide to generate power and purified water. Join Margarita Staykova and Tiago Moreira to discover some of the science and ethics of using microbes to create materials. Would we be able to control how the cells evolved? Or, would we have to form symbiotic relationships with living materials similar to the relationships we had with working animals in the past?Watch next 👇Animate materials: full talk with Mark Miodownik ▶ youtu.be/cQD2_E350KQThe science of symmetry ▶ youtu.be/K8JxMQds-PI5 things you never knew about whiskers ▶ youtu.be/q3h2CRhie3gWhy whale song is like pop music ▶ youtu.be/goZA5SlXx-gSecrets of the deep ocean ▶ youtu.be/4QU2SkqhTa0Sir David Attenborough on biodiversity ▶ youtu.be/GlWNuzrqe7UGigantism and the age of extinction ▶ youtu.be/rjdHd-IafC0The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Data-driven materials discovery | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-11-01 | Join us for the Clifford Paterson Lecture 2020 given by Professor Jacqui Cole.#crystallography #chemistry #energy #materials #ai Join the discussion: https://app.sli.do/event/ovdxfNLv5bS1gHViyN9P14StreamText offers a full page of captions and you can personalise the display adjusting the font, the font size and background. You can also open the link in a separate webpage, adjust the size of the page and place it at the top/bottom of the screen on which you are viewing the event if you would like to view the event and captions on one page. It needs to be opened/copied into a web browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. The link is set to go live at 19:00.streamtext.net/player?event=RoyalSociety Professor Jacqueline Cole was awarded the Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture 2020 for the development of photo-crystallography and the discovery of novel high-performance nonlinear optical materials and light-harvesting dyes using molecular design rules. After 2 years of delays due to the global pandemic, Professor Cole now has the opportunity to deliver the Prize Lecture.Professor Cole will describe how one can combine the predictive power of artificial intelligence with data science and algorithms to discover new materials for the energy sector. A ‘design-to-device’ pipeline for materials discovery will be demonstrated. Thereby, large-scale data-mining workflows are fashioned to predict successfully new chemicals that possess a targeted functionality.The success of such a data-driven materials discovery approach is nonetheless contingent upon having the right data source to mine. It also requires algorithms that suitably encode structure-function relationships into data-mining workflows that progressively short list data toward the prediction of a lead material for experimental validation. The talk shows how suitable data are sourced, algorithms are designed and fed into predictions, and how these predictions are borne out by experiments.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Modern scientist vs. 1600s scientist: air pollution | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-10-31 | Modern atmospheric physicist Dr Mark Richards critiques John Evelyn's ideas about air pollution from 1661 with help of Royal Society librarian Keith Moore and readings by Lemn Sissay.#LemnSissay #airpollution #physics #health Watch next 👇Planetary scientist Dr Suzie Imber critiques John Wilkins's 1638 book on landing on the Moon▶ youtu.be/x0uw3KDycUEBill Bryson and Brian Cox talk Benjamin Franklin ▶ youtu.be/YUG6yLhICJAWatch Dr Mark Richards's full talk at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2019: youtu.be/UEIRwAuhqeQSir David Attenborough and Brian Cox talk Charles Darwin ▶ youtu.be/6yEX_OI0xbQThe incredible life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: youtu.be/PraybTdD_9IThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The science of laughter with Sophie Scott | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-10-11 | Join us for the Michael Faraday Prize Lecture 2021 given by Professor Sophie Scott.#Laughter #Neurobiology #Neuroscience #Speech #AphasiaIn this prize lecture, Professor Sophie Scott will explore the science of laughter - how laughter has evolved, its functions in mammals, and the ways that humans use laughter. Professor Scott will show how laughter is used to communicate much more than humour, and the importance of laughter in our social interactions. We will also explore the neural basis of laughter, and the possible ways that we vary in the ways that we process laugher.The Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize and Lecture is awarded annually to the scientist or engineer whose expertise in communicating scientific ideas in lay terms is exemplary. The award is named after Michael Faraday FRS, the influential inventor and electrical pioneer who was prominent in the public communication of science and founded the Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. In 2021, the prize was awarded to Professor Sophie Scott CBE FBA FMedSci, for her work in engaging the public with neuroscience through events, talks, TV and radio, and exemplifying how science communication can enhance scientific excellence.Watch talks by previous winners of the prize:David Spiegelhalter on statistics in a time of COVID ▶ youtu.be/JW9plVfanjoMartyn Poliakoff on the chemical elements ▶ youtu.be/bou6Ank4m5YDanielle George's robot orchestra ▶ youtu.be/bou6Ank4m5YMark Miodownik on living materials ▶ youtu.be/78VGJY2waxgNick Lane on why life is the way it is ▶ youtu.be/PhPrirmk8F4The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Five things you never knew about whiskers | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-10-05 | What are whiskers for? How do they work? And what can we learn from them? 🐱 Dr Robyn Grant explains, with the help of some porcupines!#whiskers #biology #animals #zoology #robotSubscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWatch our other films with BBC Ideas:The science of choosing your next snack▶ youtu.be/_yYNyovR63QSecrets of the deep ocean▶ youtu.be/4QU2SkqhTa0Why soil is the most amazing thing on Earth▶ youtu.be/MmJUj4Aa2kMThe hidden clues that reveal who you are▶ youtu.be/OusBQ87IHUQThe amazing illustrations of Maria Sibylla Merian▶ youtu.be/3WiwkwW18uYThe dangers of not getting enough light:▶ youtu.be/LkDMwl5GHhQWhy science getting it wrong isn't always a bad thing▶ youtu.be/bKjafJGDGucHow the humble battery can save the world▶ youtu.be/CVpvWJY1CdThe exceptional life of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin▶ youtu.be/PraybTdD_9IWhat would a world without vaccines be like?▶ youtu.be/yi7gyTqweZcThe killer disease humanity eradicated▶ youtu.be/dnHtY7WgHH0Antibiotic resistance explained▶ youtu.be/NaHvrb2NmysThumbnail image credit: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat-whiskers-kitty-tabby-20787.jpgThe Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.orgWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The science of symmetry | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-09-21 | From movies, art and architecture to the fundamental rules of life and the Universe around us, symmetry is everywhere. 🌌 Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXB#symmetry #biology #physics #art #zoology #animals Join Dr Laila Moubayidin from the John Innes Centre to find out about the difference between bilateral and radial symmetry, and why the laws that govern art and architecture are also vital for the health of organisms. We also investigate why 'breaking' symmetry can be a crucial adaptation for some animals, including humans. 🌿Dr Laila Moubayidin is a Royal Society University Research Fellow.Special thanks to Alex M. Schreiber, St. Lawrence University for the 'flatfish metamorphosis' video 🐟 Watch next 👇Why whale song is like pop music ▶ youtu.be/goZA5SlXx-gSecrets of the deep ocean ▶ youtu.be/4QU2SkqhTa0Sir David Attenborough on biodiversity ▶ youtu.be/GlWNuzrqe7UGigantism and the age of extinction ▶ youtu.be/rjdHd-IafC0The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Visit our website to learn more: royalsociety.orgWe’re also on Twitter twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook: facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram: instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The politics of DNA and the story of eugenics with Adam Rutherford | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-09-05 | All science is political. Join us for the Royal Society David Attenborough Award Lecture 2021 given by Dr Adam Rutherford.#AdamRutherford #Genetics #DNA #Eugenics #Race #Racism #PoliticsWatch the previous David Attenborough lecture, delivered by Professor Alice Roberts ▶ youtu.be/9YLXTtH0Y1kAll science is political. Though the scientific methods have been designed over the centuries to free our understanding of reality from the baggage of perceptive and psychological biases, and the grubby world of politics, it's an ideal we strive for, but have never achieved. All new discoveries exist in the culture in which they are born, and are always susceptible to abuse. In this talk, Dr Adam Rutherford will be exploring how the abuses in his own fields of evolution and genetics - by politicians, ideologues and by scientists themselves - were central to the most heinous crimes of modern history. Adam will be arguing that scientists must know their own histories, and how Darwin's phrase 'ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge' should be a mantra for our times. The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded annually to an individual for outstanding public engagement with science. The award, open to everyone, recognises high quality public engagement activities. The award is named after the United Kingdom’s best-loved naturalist and broadcaster, and honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, David Attenborough. In 2021, this award was given to Dr Adam Rutherford for his contribution to strengthening public confidence in science through radio, TV, films, talks and books, and in particular, for challenging racist pseudoscience.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Why whale song is like pop music | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-08-31 | Does whale song spread like pop music? 🐋🎸 Why do humpback whales sing and how far do their songs travel around the world? Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXB#humpbackwhale #whale #music #whalesong #biology #zoology #animals Join Dr Ellen Garland from the University of St Andrews on her quest to chart the journey of humpback whale songs across the Pacific Ocean. Male humpback whales sing a repetitive, learnt, and culturally transmitted song display. Most males within a population sing the same, slow-evolving song; but in the South Pacific, songs from neighbouring populations have come in and taken over, almost like pop music. Humpback whales seem to like the novelty of a new sound but Dr Garland wants to discover whether it's really a 'sexy song' that attracts the attention of a female, or a 'sexy singer.'Dr Ellen Garland is a Royal Society University Research Fellow.If you'd like to learn more you can read Ellen's paper in Royal Society Open Science here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.220158Ellen previously starred in Apple TV's Fathom: You can watch the trailer here: youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Mmnk0LZLUWatch next: Secrets of the deep ocean: youtu.be/4QU2SkqhTa0Sir David Attenborough on biodiversity: youtu.be/GlWNuzrqe7UGigantism and the age of extinction: youtu.be/rjdHd-IafC0The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Visit our website to learn more: royalsociety.orgWe’re also on Twitter twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook: facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram: instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Smashing stereotypes The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | Meet the researchers showing us that groups of people are more similar in their values and other psychological characteristics than it is commonly assumed. Highlighting these similarities, for example between women and men or people who hold different political views, helps to reduce stereotypes, and improves respect.Find out more: ttps://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/discover-values royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: The story of the Winchcombe meteorite The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | Winchcombe is the first meteorite to be recovered in the UK in 30 years and these researchers are studying its parts to understand more about the Earth’s origin. Find out more: thewinchcombemeteorite.co.uk royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Ocean travellers The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | The effects of phytoplankton moving may seem like a ‘drop in the ocean’ compared to the migration of a whale pod. Meet the researchers studying the oceans’ travellers in all their forms. Understand how marine structures, fishing pressure, oil spills, and warming all influence the movements of creatures large and small, and how human behaviours can help the ocean thrive.Find out more: essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ocean-travellers royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Replacing oil The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | Where does the waste go from your freshly poured pint? Find out how scientists are moving away from fossil fuels and creating catalysts and fine chemicals from waste items and how they can help to make everyday items like our clothes, health and beauty products, food packaging, comfy chairs, televisions, and phones.Find out more: lboro.ac.uk/research/slowcat royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Mind over matter The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | Will computers ever be able to read our mind? Researchers are improving links between the nervous system and computers, so that people with cerebral palsy and stroke survivors will be able to communicate more effectively. Find out more: essex.ac.uk/research-projects/mind-over-matter royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Llamas vs viruses The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | Could all diseases, from Covid to cancer, be treated by llamas in the future? Meet the researchers studying how can llamas’ nanobodies be used to cure human diseases in a more efficient way than human antibodies, which are larger.Find out more: rfi.ac.uk/llamas-vs-viruses royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: From tree to bar: a journey through chocolate The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | Researchers are identifying how microbes influence the way chocolate tastes. Join them in this journey to discover how the cacao beans are fermented, dried and roasted into a chocolate bar. Find out more: tree2bar.co.uk royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Berry solar cells The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | To replace fossil fuels, we need to be able to produce solar-generated electricity. Learn how dyes from cherries, blackberries and blackcurrants can convert light into electricity in an efficient and inexpensive way by making wireless devices that harvest indoor light.Find out more: berrycells.com royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Decoding the DNA tree of life The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | The researchers taking part in the largest biology project since the Human Genome Project: sampling the DNA of the 70,000 animal, plant, fungus, and protist species in Britain. Hopefully we will be able to protect, enjoy and benefit from our home-grown biodiversity long into the future. Find out more: darwintreeoflife.org royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Summer Science 2022: Disease detectives The Royal Society 2022-07-27 | Covid has shown us that scientists are key to preventing the world’s next pandemic. This group of researchers are stopping diseases in their tracks by using state-of-the-art genetic technology, like altering the genetic code of mosquitos so they can’t spread disease. Find out more: pirbright.ac.uk/disease-detectives-0 royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
The book on fish that nearly sank Isaac Newton | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-07-26 | Join star of @ObjectivityVideos Keith Moore to find out about the History of Fishes, the expensive book that nearly meant Newton's law of gravity was never published! 🐟 #isaacnewton #Fish #HistoryThanks to the 'Microbial puppet masters' team at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022.▶ Summer Science Live (full show) youtu.be/bUrPA3E8ggY▶ Using beer waste to make materials youtu.be/vvJCPpOSDlU▶ Is fusion the future of power? youtu.be/Ldm5MNqq1gg▶ Nature has made few proteins. Scientists are making more youtu.be/Am45c83iLg4▶ What is the 'Darwin Tree of Life'? youtu.be/K1RPqVCTU78▶ Why we aren't as polarised as we think youtu.be/n7t-Xy8Y3oo▶ How dangerous is 'space weather'? youtu.be/vOFkLD2FC4w▶ What on Earth is a bacteriophage? youtu.be/RmaBalpUyYc▶ Could llamas help cure Covid-19? youtu.be/vgElT2JgUHo▶ How chocolate gets its flavour youtu.be/3JvQqv_d4FQ▶What would you do with a third thumb? youtu.be/uMitg7wyoU8▶ Hunting the Winchcombe meteorite youtu.be/y-4-BuYZqa8 The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
What on Earth is a bacteriophage? | The Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-07-26 | Bacteriophages are the most abundant organism in nature. they are viruses that infect bacteria and can control or even kill them. Scientists want to understand how bacteriophages control bacteria in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis. 🦠#Bacteriophage #cysticfibrosis #Virus #3dprinting #Health #lungs #microbiology Thanks to the 'Microbial puppet masters' team at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022.Watch more from Summer Science Live 2022:▶ Summer Science Live (full show) youtu.be/bUrPA3E8ggY▶ Could llamas help cure Covid-19? youtu.be/vgElT2JgUHo▶ Nature has made few proteins. Scientists are making more youtu.be/Am45c83iLg4▶ What would you do with a third thumb? youtu.be/uMitg7wyoU8▶ Using beer waste to make materials youtu.be/vvJCPpOSDlU▶ Is fusion the future of power? youtu.be/Ldm5MNqq1gg▶ What is the 'Darwin Tree of Life'? youtu.be/K1RPqVCTU78▶ Why we aren't as polarised as we think youtu.be/n7t-Xy8Y3oo▶ How dangerous is 'space weather'? youtu.be/vOFkLD2FC4w▶ The book on fish that nearly sank Isaac Newton youtu.be/ILmzte-acsU▶ What on Earth is a bacteriophage? youtu.be/RmaBalpUyYc▶ How chocolate gets its flavour youtu.be/3JvQqv_d4FQ▶ Hunting the Winchcombe meteorite youtu.be/y-4-BuYZqa8 The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
Hunting the Winchcombe meteorite | the Royal Society The Royal Society 2022-07-25 | On February 2021, a spectacular fireball was seen blazing through the skies over the UK. The next morning, a family in the town of Winchcombe, woke to discover a pile of dark rocks on their driveway! These rocks, the first meteorites recovered in the UK for 30 years, hold vital clues about the origin of the solar system and formation of planets. ☄#Space #Winchcombe #Meteotite #Asteroid #Astronomy #SolarSystemThanks to the 'Story of the Winchcombe meteorite' team at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2022. thewinchcombemeteorite.co.uk Watch more from Summer Science Live 2022:▶ Summer Science Live (full show) youtu.be/bUrPA3E8ggY▶ How dangerous is 'space weather'? youtu.be/vOFkLD2FC4w▶ Is fusion the future of power? youtu.be/Ldm5MNqq1gg▶ The book on fish that nearly sank Isaac Newton youtu.be/ILmzte-acsU▶ Using beer waste to make materials youtu.be/vvJCPpOSDlU▶ Nature has made few proteins. Scientists are making more youtu.be/Am45c83iLg4▶ What is the 'Darwin Tree of Life'? youtu.be/K1RPqVCTU78▶ Why we aren't as polarised as we think youtu.be/n7t-Xy8Y3oo▶ What on Earth is a bacteriophage? youtu.be/RmaBalpUyYc▶ Could llamas help cure Covid-19? youtu.be/vgElT2JgUHo▶ How chocolate gets its flavour youtu.be/3JvQqv_d4FQ▶ What would you do with a third thumb? youtu.be/uMitg7wyoU8 The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.▶royalsociety.org🔔Subscribe to our channel for exciting science videos and live events, many hosted by Brian Cox, our Professor for Public Engagement: bit.ly/3fQIFXBWe’re also on Twitter ▶ twitter.com/royalsocietyFacebook ▶ facebook.com/theroyalsocietyInstagram ▶ instagram.com/theroyalsocietyAnd LinkedIn ▶ linkedin.com/company/the-royal-society
