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October 2015
Mutant Halloween
Guerilla Science's Mutant Circus is coming to London for Halloween to take up residence in…
Find out more »Mutant Halloween
Guerilla Science's Mutant Circus is coming to London for Halloween to take up residence in…
Find out more »Natural Histories: Beetles
Meet Museum curators and researchers from the BBC Radio 4 series Natural Histories. The 25-part…
Find out more »November 2015
Mutant Halloween
Guerilla Science's Mutant Circus is coming to London for Halloween to take up residence in…
Find out more »London is Wild: Wildlife
Not far from London’s tarmac and glass is another city full of wild animals and…
Find out more »The First Stars
Eddington once famously said that a physicist on a cloud-bound planet could predict that there…
Find out more »Packed Lunch: Nanotechnology
Feed your curiosity at our daytime discussions. Drop in to hear local scientists in conversation…
Find out more »‘EAT. DIE’ The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s
Following the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the US government sought to regulate…
Find out more »Geek Showoff
A night of nine-minute-long nerding with these incredible acts: Steve Cross Helen Zaltzman Josh McNorton…
Find out more »Finding Unique Objects for Cosmonauts
One of the biggest challenges for the Cosmonauts curators was to find exceptional objects to…
Find out more »Recycling: London’s dirty past
We think of recycling as a modern idea and we think of the Victorian city as…
Find out more »Natural Histories: Cockroaches
Meet Museum curators and researchers from the BBC Radio 4 series Natural Histories. The 25-part…
Find out more »Steve Backshall’s Wild World
Overview Wildlife TV Presenter, Adventurer, naturalist and writer Steve Backshall takes us on a tour…
Find out more »Lectures @ the Linn: Conservation Crossroads
Summary: Human behaviour is the primary driver of biodiversity loss. Conservation interventions often aim to…
Find out more »Keeping the Heart Young in an Old Body
The heart was the organ that, until recently, aged fastest in wealthier societies, with death…
Find out more »Body Farms: Nauseating or Necessary?
People tend to be either repulsed or fascinated by the idea of dead bodies being…
Find out more »Research Showcase on Malaria
Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the…
Find out more »Is the Microprocessor Under Threat?
Is the microprocessor under threat? Perhaps: certainly power consumption limitations reduce the proportion of transistors…
Find out more »The Next Big UK Flood: Britain Under Water
What are the odds that events will conspire to put London under water during the…
Find out more »Horniman Museum: Secret Late
A night of secrets awaits... Enjoy covert prohibition performances, underground circus acts, films, artist talks…
Find out more »The Meaning of Science
What is science? Is it uniquely equipped to deliver universal truths? Or is it one…
Find out more »Are We Destined to Live in Space
The cultural roots of the Russian space programme were in cosmological and mystical thinking, and in…
Find out more »Science fictions from Latin America: a history in images
Science fiction has often been considered the province of North Atlantic imaginations; we seldom hear…
Find out more »The Story of a Molecule
Discover how we are able to see a single molecule and what that means for our understanding of biological processes at the 2015 Ernst Chain lecture.
Find out more »Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Debate
James Ladyman and Raymond Tallis address the motion, ‘Human Nature is Better Understood Through Science…
Find out more »Hamilton, Boole and their Algebras
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) revolutionized algebra with his discovery of quaternions, a non-commutative algebraic system,…
Find out more »Bubbles and Science
Is it possible to use knowledge of bubbles to examine something as large as the…
Find out more »Big question lecture: Medicine and innovation in WWI
Centre of the Cell’s Big Question Lecture investigates the fascinating history and stories behind wartime…
Find out more »London LASER 12
London LASER puts on evening talks at the intersection of art, science and technology. This November,…
Find out more »Improbable Things Always Happen
Extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they’re commonplace. Not only that, we should…
Find out more »Colour and cancer; Scorpions and surgery
Is it possible to light up a cancer cell in the brain? Could scorpion venom…
Find out more »Landscape Dynamics, Erosion and Sedimentation
Part of The Geological Society's London Lecture series Speaker Alex Whittaker Imperial College Event information…
Find out more »Landscape Dynamics, Erosion and Sedimentation
Part of The Geological Society's London Lecture series Speaker Alex Whittaker Imperial College Event information…
Find out more »Gender and mental health: What can history teach us?
Eminent historians and psychiatrists gather in a Central London venue to discuss gender and mental…
Find out more »A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her…
Find out more »Reactive systems: a powerful paradigm for modelling and analysis from engineering to biology
A reactive system is a dynamic system that evolves in time by reacting to external…
Find out more »Lunch Hour Lectures: Looking for life on Mars
Mars is our closest hope for life beyond Earth. 3.8 billion years ago, when life…
Find out more »Surviving in Space
We are of Earth. Our bodies have evolved to work on this planet – not…
Find out more »King Solomon to Saint Mary: a journey through human retroviruses, ancient and modern
Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) slips under the radar of most healthcare workers, especially…
Find out more »Being human/ being animal
Using the specimens and objects from the collections of the Hunterian Museum, this event will…
Find out more »The Science and Politics of Laziness
When is a lie-in well-deserved and when is it plain lazy? Join broadcaster and writer…
Find out more »What does science tell us about race and racism?
From Rachel Dolezal to the Charleston church shooting, the subject of race is never far…
Find out more »Light and Dark Matters: The Power of Light
How does light help us understand space and time? How does it shape our material…
Find out more »The data revolution: it just got serious
Since the birth of the internet our ability to create and share data has step…
Find out more »The Future of Flight
As the Science Museum prepares for their next major exhibition, focusing on the unique mechanical designs of…
Find out more »Was Einstein Right?
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein completed his General Theory of Relativity. He made space…
Find out more »Aviation and its Contributions to Healthcare
There are surprising similarities between the aviation (and especially airline) industries and healthcare; especially cardiac…
Find out more »Glass Creatures of the Sea
Created in the 1800’s by the father and son team of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka,…
Find out more »Material Miracles
Much of the technology we take for granted would have seemed miraculous even 30 years…
Find out more »Crucial Interventions with Richard Barnett
‘Crucial Interventions’, the sequel to the best-selling and award-winning ‘The Sick Rose’, uses rare, beautiful and…
Find out more »Life through a lens: Celebrating science photography
Join the Royal Society for an evening celebrating science photography as they unveil the winners of the…
Find out more »A History of Life in 100 Fossils
Fossils are like time capsules, capturing a moment of life's history in stone. They are…
Find out more »Art Meets Science Library Tour
With more than one million items, some of which date back to the fifteenth century,…
Find out more »Science with a million people
Join Chris Lintott for an exploration of the past, present and future of citizen science…
Find out more »The Tsar’s Cup (Friday Evening Discourse)
One of the last acts of Tsar Alexander I before his death in 1825 was…
Find out more »BBC R4 Natural Histories- The Big Story
The Big Story brings Radio 4's Natural Histories series to life on stage, re-imagining the popular BBC…
Find out more »Art Meets Science Library Tour
With more than one million items, some of which date back to the fifteenth century,…
Find out more »Art Meets Science Library Tour
With more than one million items, some of which date back to the fifteenth century,…
Find out more »December 2015
Galactic Archaeology
The history of our galaxy will be addressed by a local approach that is in…
Find out more »The Lord Treasurer of Botany
Founder's Day 18:00 Wednesday 2nd December 2015 In 1784, James Edward Smith, an unknown medical…
Find out more »Genome regulation and the epigenome
Our DNA contains tens of thousands of individual genes that encode vital information responsible for…
Find out more »Art and Culture: Imaging Space Travel
The cosmos has fascinated the creative mind for centuries. In the early 20th century the…
Find out more »Imperial Fringe: It is rocket science
Kicking off celebrations to mark British astronaut Tim Peake's launch into space, this evening provides a unique opportunity…
Find out more »Children’s Christmas Lecture
The Universe and the idea that we’re not alone has captivated our imaginations for centuries.…
Find out more »Sunspots: Spoken Word at Kings Place
Is the Sun a god, a man, a woman, or simply a giant ball of…
Find out more »Lunch Hour Lectures: Cannabis: pleasure, madness and medicine
Cannabis has been used throughout history for medicinal as well as pleasurable effects. Its 100…
Find out more »What is the future for beavers in Britain?
Could beavers be successfully re-established in Britain and what affect would they have on local…
Find out more »Lunch Hour Lectures: Truth and lies: medicine in the media
There has never been a more confusing time to consume health information, as scientists and…
Find out more »Lifting the lid: The Royal Society since 1960
The Royal Society may be one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies,…
Find out more »Science in the Media: Dodgy Science Reporting, Ghostbusting and Doctor Who
Hear about the science of Doctor Who from a scientist who is also a consultant to Doctor Who's scriptwriters, find out about the credibility (scientifically and otherwise) of ghosthunting TV programme from a former ghosthunter now turned ghostbuster, and discover just how much rubbish science reporting there really is in our national press.
Find out more »January 2016
Dogs in Space
The Cosmonauts exhibition features the first canine space travellers. Visitors can see the type of…
Find out more »Dark matter and dinosaurs: The astounding interconnectedness of the Universe
66 million years ago, a ten-mile-wide object from outer space hurtled into the Earth at…
Find out more »A Very Brief History of Computing, 1948-2015
The world's first modern computer, in Manchester in 1948, was followed remarkably swiftly by the…
Find out more »Finding Unique Objects for Cosmonauts
One of the biggest challenges for the Cosmonauts curators was to find exceptional objects to…
Find out more »Herding Hemingway’s Cats: How do our genes work?
We’ve all heard of genes, but how do they actually work? Geneticist Kat Arney and her…
Find out more »Upping the Andes: The Full Story
The Upping The Andes team began their ambitious journey cycling up the full length of…
Find out more »A Silent Witness: Murder and the application of Environmental Science
The bodies of murder victims, either whole or in pieces, often finish up in rivers…
Find out more »Changes of state and mind: A new phase for structural biology?
Knowing the shape of proteins is crucial for our understanding of human health and for…
Find out more »February 2016
Aiming for the Moon
In 1989 Soviet authorities admitted publicly for the first time the existence of a formerly…
Find out more »Jane McGonigal: Super Better
What's the single most productive way to become healthier, braver and more resilient? Games. Bestselling…
Find out more »Ian Morris: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels – How Human Values Evolve
The majority of people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good…
Find out more »How Adlerian Psychology Offers Effective Treatment for Common Mental Health Issues
Mental Health (MH) issues have a vast range of impacts for those affected, their relationships…
Find out more »London is Dating: City Love and Urban Lust
It's almost Valentine's Day and the number of sex x science events are getting us hot…
Find out more »New Economics as if People Mattered
How do we shift from a three to One Planet Living across the UK, in a way…
Find out more »Natural gas: what role can it play in the UK future?
Claire Carter a PhD student at SPRU, University of Sussex and member of the Sussex…
Find out more »The Art of the Image: Leonardo da Vinci and medical imaging
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest anatomists ever to have lived. He personally…
Find out more »Feeling the pressure in sedimentary basins: the periodic venting of hot fluids from within the Earth
Incredible amounts of water are trapped in the Earth's subsurface, invisible even to regular surface-based…
Find out more »Applying the Molecular Principles of Engineering
Engineering creates innovations and solutions using empirical data, models, analysis, and properties of materials. Properties…
Find out more »How to Choose a Doctor or Surgeon
Various governments have promoted ‘patient choice’ as part of NHS reforms. Yet few people know…
Find out more »Thinking on Sunday: How should we use unproven treatments during an epidemic?
Dr Annette Rid discusses the key points of using unproven treatments during an epidemic, the…
Find out more »Darwin, Evolution and God: The Present Debates
This lecture sets the scientific and religious context for Darwin’s theory of evolution, before considering…
Find out more »Stroke in the Elderly: Slowly Retreating
The risk of stroke steadily increases with old age, but in relative terms both the…
Find out more »March 2016
Skeletons in the Closet: The Grant Museum
Continuing the Hunterian Museum's Lunchtime Lecture series is this talk by Jack Ashby, Museum Manager…
Find out more »How Common is Life in the Universe
The discovery of exoplanets and of Earth twins will be described, with a review of…
Find out more »Dogs in Space
The Cosmonauts exhibition features the first canine space travellers. Visitors can see the type of…
Find out more »Wildlife Gardening
Growing concern for the environment has encouraged us to see that we can make a…
Find out more »Why Society Needs Astronomy and Cosmology
'One day, Sir, you may tax it': Faraday's prescient quip when quizzed about the practical…
Find out more »The Artificial Heart: A New Ending?
Since the development of the heart lung machine in the middle of the last century,…
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