Britain, Nuclear Energy and the Future

19 Mar 15

Cyber Security: Why we should be worried; and what we can do about it

22 Jan 15

Full STEAM ahead for growth: Knowledge, innovation and industrial strategy

20 Nov 14

Women in Democracy

24 Nov 13

Cyber snooping: A threat to freedom or a necessary safeguard?

26 Jun 12

#FCBBCA: Free speech and democracy in a revolutionised Arab World

15 May 12

#FCBBCA: Iran - diplomatic tensions and power

16 Mar 12

#FCBBA: Israel and the Arab Spring

18 Oct 11

FIRST WEDNESDAY SPECIAL: Changing World – Conflict, Culture and Terrorism in the 21st century

7 Sep 11

IEEE 125th Anniversary Program IEEE

6 Oct 09

Einstein and the quantum: the quest of the valiant Swabian

28 Jan 14

The neutrino hunters

21 Jan 14

A century of symmetry discovered: a crystallographer’s tale

17 Jan 14

Life is what you make it

29 Nov 13

Bloody will be thy end: The science and archaeology which uncovered Richard III

14 Nov 13

The science of fireworks

5 Nov 13

Family Fun Day: Space

2 Nov 13

Family Fun Day: Space

2 Nov 13

Toilets and other great inventions

30 Oct 13

Seeing things in a different light: How X-ray crystallography revealed the structure of everything

25 Oct 13

Food, the brain and us

23 Oct 13

The good, the bad and the genetically predetermined

15 Oct 13

Mind Games: The science of sexism

2 Oct 13

The world until yesterday: What can we learn from traditional societies?

1 Oct 13

Antimatter; why the anti-world matters

27 Sep 13

Mind Games: Can psychology change the world and why doesn't it?

26 Sep 13

How unique are we?

25 Sep 13

Forbidden crystal symmetry in mathematics and architecture

18 Sep 13

Everest: Survival at the extremes

9 Jul 13

Computing with quantum cats: From colossus to qubits

4 Jul 13

Time, Einstein and the coolest stuff in the Universe

28 Jun 13

Scent of space

27 Jun 13

Small science

25 Jun 13

Big science

18 Jun 13

Capturing reality with fictional models

18 Jun 13

Is cosmology possible as a science?

11 Jun 13

Genius and invention

8 Jun 13

Stuff matters

5 Jun 13

The nature of dark energy and dark matter: Are new laws of physics required?

4 Jun 13

Terra Rara: The strange story of some political elements

31 May 13

An introduction to climate science

29 May 13

Falling upwards

29 May 13

Teaching your fingers to see

22 May 13

An evening with Simon Mayo and Itch

18 May 13

Our dynamic Sun

26 Apr 13

The quantum Universe

24 Apr 13

Creation: the origins and future of life

16 Apr 13

The race to be the ‘cell therapy nation’

22 Mar 13

The Internet tells us nothing

18 Mar 13

Project sunshine: how science can use the Sun to fuel and feed the world

13 Mar 13

Business success: what’s luck got to do with it?

6 Mar 13

Family Fun Day: The Modern Alchemist

2 Mar 13

Strange material

22 Feb 13

Anatomies: the human body, its parts and the stories they tell

21 Feb 13

Science and the dark art of persuasion

12 Feb 13

The joy of sects: re-writing the Bible as a scientific textbook

5 Feb 13

The Universe within

31 Jan 13

Quantum life: how physics can revolutionise biology

25 Jan 13

A down to Earth guide to the cosmos

23 Jan 13

The particle at the end of the Universe

15 Jan 13

The modern alchemist - 2012 Christmas Lectures preview event

5 Dec 12

Goo’s everywhere – in nature and nearer to home

30 Nov 12

How the Internet works

21 Nov 12

You’re going to die!

20 Nov 12

The fear of science

13 Nov 12

Gravity's engines: The other side of black holes

8 Nov 12

The science of fear

6 Nov 12

Family Fun Day: In deep water

3 Nov 12

Searching for aliens

31 Oct 12

Imagination: The door to identity

26 Oct 12

The spark of life

16 Oct 12

Science News Quiz

10 Oct 12

Family Fun Day: Live life in colour

6 Oct 12

Design for life

4 Oct 12

Bad Pharma: How drug companies distort science

2 Oct 12

From test-tube to YouTube

28 Sep 12

The Geek Manifesto

26 Sep 12

Paradox: The nine greatest enigmas in science

25 Sep 12

Darwin tunes: Survival of the funkiest

11 Sep 12

It’s not rocket science

19 Jul 12

Imagining the past, remembering the future

11 Jul 12

The most human human

10 Jul 12

The pointless universe

29 Jun 12

The long Earth

21 Jun 12

Free range chemistry: No added chemicals!

25 May 12

Cutting Edge 2012: Behind Sailing

24 May 12

What you see depends of how your look: Time and space in scientific imagery

10 May 12

The science of reputation

2 May 12

Probability does not exist. Probably

27 Apr 12

Cutting Edge 2012: Behind Athletics

26 Apr 12

Family Fun Day: A bug’s life

14 Apr 12

The righteous mind

10 Apr 12

The social brain in adolescence

30 Mar 12

Science Weekly Live

28 Mar 12

Cutting Edge 2012: Behind Triathlon

27 Mar 12

U3A @ the Ri: Forensics, particle accelerators and food security

27 Mar 12

Famelab UK Final

21 Mar 12

Scientists and journalists need different things from science. Discuss

13 Mar 12

Consciousness: the hard problem?

7 Mar 12

Wired for culture

29 Feb 12

From Iron lungs to intensive care

28 Feb 12

Alzheimer’s disease: treatments and tests on the horizon

24 Feb 12

Does innovation begin with the entrepreneur or the technology?

23 Feb 12

Waking the giant: How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes

21 Feb 12

Heart to heart

15 Feb 12

Family Fun Day: Meet your brain

4 Feb 12

Electroweak symmetry breaking and the Large Hadron Collider

27 Jan 12

Cutting Edge 2012: Behind Basketball

25 Jan 12

Ghosts of Christmas Lectures past

3 Dec 11

The science and politics of climate change

25 Nov 11

Hearing connections: the sonification of natural systems

21 Nov 11

Thinking fast and slow

16 Nov 11

1+1=3

15 Nov 11

The serendipity engine

8 Nov 11

Leonardo and Mona Lisa. Why?

4 Nov 11

The better angels of our nature: the decline of violence in history and its causes

2 Nov 11

The science of fireworks!

1 Nov 11

How to make and repair muscles

28 Oct 11

Uncovering the Universe: latest news from the Large Hadron Collider

19 Oct 11

The biggest IQ test

12 Oct 11

Does neuromarketing work?

4 Oct 11

Prosperity through chemistry

30 Sep 11

Instant expert: Invisibility

22 Sep 11

Quantum theory cannot hurt you

15 Sep 11

A more perfect heaven: how Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionised the cosmos

5 Sep 11

Family Fun Day: Waves

30 Jul 11

Aping mankind: neuromania, darwinitis and the misrepresentation of mankind

7 Jul 11

Defeating aging with regenerative medicine

30 Jun 11

Carbon in nano and outer space

24 Jun 11

The origin of our species

23 Jun 11

Nurturing ideas that matter

8 Jun 11

Family Fun Day: Forensic Science

4 Jun 11

From Rothamsted to Northwick Park: designing experiments to avoid bias and reduce variance

27 May 11

Science careers: has the science establishment let down young researchers?

24 May 11

The evolution of antimicrobial resistance: a Darwinian perspective

6 May 11

Pleasure and pain

5 May 11

Zero degrees of empathy: a new theory of human cruelty

19 Apr 11

Let there be light- sunlight, DNA and skin ageing

7 Apr 11

The reason why: the miracle of life on Earth

5 Apr 11

Family fun day; Food

2 Apr 11

U3A @ the Ri

29 Mar 11

Seeing the invisible: an astrophysicist's view of the Universe

25 Mar 11

The limits of science

22 Mar 11

Time bombs or tidal waves: the impact of Iraq/Afghanistan on the health of the UK Armed Forces

25 Feb 11

AI will kill us all: post-digital geopolitics

24 Feb 11

Science experiments

23 Feb 11

The book of universes

18 Feb 11

Entrepreneurship: art or science; nature or nurture?

17 Feb 11

Botworld: Designing for the new world of domestic A.I.

16 Feb 11

Uncanny & lovable: The future of emotional robots

10 Feb 11

Unnatural: The heretical idea of making people

8 Feb 11

Family fun day: the stuff that makes our world

5 Feb 11

Maths into pictures, thirty years on

28 Jan 11

You are what you hear

19 Jan 11

Treatment of asthma through the ages

26 Nov 10

Science that changed the world

24 Nov 10

The unfortunate chemist - tribulations of chemical philosophy in an age of revolution

19 Nov 10

Blood, sugar and tears

17 Nov 10

Exploring the invisible: art-science café

4 Nov 10

Where good ideas come from

1 Nov 10

Rhythms of the body

29 Oct 10

Science Question Time

26 Oct 10

Neutrino - is the sun still shining?

21 Oct 10

Whose genome is it anyway?

14 Oct 10

The strange friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung: when physics met psychology

5 Oct 10

Family fun day – The Chemical History of the Candle: Faraday’s popular science 150 years on

2 Oct 10

The complete human body

29 Sep 10

Empathy and the human brain

24 Sep 10

Should science journalists take sides?

23 Sep 10

Cycles of time: an extraordinary new view of the universe

15 Sep 10

Bloodhound Project – 133,000 HP, 1,000 mph and a new generation of British engineers

14 Sep 10

Fully charged: renewable energy and the future of transport

9 Sep 10

Family Fun day (Weather)

7 Aug 10

Total Recall: How the e-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything

30 Jul 10

Blooming Snapdragons

14 Jul 10

The Climate Files; The battle for the truth about global warming

14 Jun 10

Why England lose

10 Jun 10

Boots and balls: the science behind the World Cup

8 Jun 10

Bragg Lecture: Highlights of journeys into the architecture of the invisible

2 Jun 10

Food allergies - what is there to worry about?

11 May 10

Flavour - the mystery sense

6 May 10

Family fun day (Kitchen chemistry)

23 Apr 10

Has Global Warming increased the toll of disasters?

5 Feb 10

Great ideas behind the digital revolution

14 Nov 09

Ice, mud and blood

29 Jan 09

Superstition: belief in the age of science

27 Jan 09

An evening with Carol Vordermann

21 Jan 09

The age of wonder

19 Jan 09

Cancer therapy from within

15 Jan 09

Surgical search - maze or game?

27 Nov 08

The Forum

25 Nov 08

The science of scent: a feast for the nose

19 Nov 08

The matter of the heart

12 Nov 08

The brain,consciousness and controversies

10 Nov 08

The making of Mr Gray's Anatomy

4 Nov 08

Use and abuse: science under the Nazi regime

29 Oct 08

Depicting movement: patterns in the brain

27 Oct 08

Murder in Mayfair

20 Oct 08

The cosmic childhood

16 Oct 08

How to win the Nobel prize

9 Oct 08

What on earth happened?

7 Oct 08

The fiction lab

6 Oct 08

Fighting Parkinson's

25 Sep 08

Sowing the seed

23 Sep 08

Greener by design

17 Sep 08

Volcanoes as agents for global change?

15 Sep 08

The English Surgeon

11 Sep 08

The fiction lab

8 Sep 08

From bad to worse: the worst ideas on the mind

15 Jun 06

Soane's Museum and Cottingham's Museum; rival architectural museums of Regency London?

16 May 06

Behind the scenes of drug discovery

11 May 06

Who's the greatest? Minds that changed our minds

27 Apr 06

Ri and U3A out and about

4 Apr 06

'Frankenstein researchers create bunny monster': an insider explains pop science

24 Mar 06

Plagues and people: planning for pandemics

23 Mar 06

Oxidative stress and cardiovascular disease: the enemy within

17 Mar 06

Getting to the heart of matter - the story of quarks

10 Mar 06

Motor neurone disease: how can we lengthen a very short straw?

3 Mar 06

Can technology save the planet?

24 Feb 06

Distilled lives: anatomy museums in Georgian London

22 Feb 06

GM: what's all the fuss about?

17 Feb 06

Green houses for the future

15 Feb 06

Are you comfortably numb?

12 Feb 06

Picture this...

8 Jul 05

Living with pain

21 Oct 04

Complexity in nature: from patterns to chaos

19 Oct 04

The Big Bang

14 Oct 04

Headline debate

13 Oct 04

Science meets politics

12 Oct 04

DNA missiles

7 Oct 04

Fuel for thought: engines without moving parts

6 Oct 04

Magic stones

5 Oct 04

Chocology: discover the delights of chocolate

4 Oct 04

Is the passage of time an illusion? A philosopher's view

30 Sep 04

Space for the terrified!!!

29 Sep 04

While you were sleeping: science, sleep and dreams

28 Sep 04

From chemistry to catwalk

23 Sep 04

The ingredients of language

20 Sep 04

Could breast cancer be caused by a virus?

14 Sep 04

Kiss and tell: breaking the silence on sexual health

15 Jul 04

Parkinson's disease: current treatment, future hope

16 Jun 04

The Limits of Human Performance

20 May 04

Stress, Health and Happiness

27 Feb 04