Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Royal Institution Christmas Lectures host Michael Wooldridge with a robot . For many science-loving kids in the U.K., at this time ...

For science enthusiasts in the United Kingdom, the Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution (RI) are as much a part of the season’s celebration as are Christmas trees and carol singing. These ...

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are annual lectures by the Royal Institution presenting scientific subjects the general public in an entertaining manner (since 1825), this series was ...

No less than 14 Nobel laureates have conducted ground-breaking research at the Institution. The RI lectures on YouTube are fascinating, as well as (generally) surprisingly accessible to beginners of ...

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock will mark the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures with a genuinely ambitious, thought-provoking and daring trio of talks on space – specifically, the ...

The medieval alchemists made elements react to create magnificent shows, enthralling kings and commoners alike, but their secrets were never revealed until now. In the first of this year's Christmas ...

Dawkins discusses the amazing capabilities of the human body and contrasts these with the limited capabilities of computers and other man-made machines. He uses a small totem pole (which is used in ...