Videos to make you think more deeply about science. Explosive short films, full length talks from the world’s leading scientists and writers, and videos to challenge the way you look at the world.
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From The Royal Institution. As the climate has heated over the last century, species extinction has rapidly accelerated. However, protecting biodiversity can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change. Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/AtveK2rIFSI From increased forest fires to rising sea levels, flora, fauna and fungi are all under threat from the effects of human-induced…
From The Royal Institution. On 17 and 18 October 1831, Michael Faraday developed the first-ever electric generator. Watch the demo: as the magnet moves, the lines of magnetic force repeatedly intersect with the wire, exciting the electrons in the wire and generating electrical current 💡 Virtually all electric power is produced using Faraday’s principles, whether…
From The Royal Institution. Many people reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. Lee McIntyre argues that anyone can and should fight back against science deniers. Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/2jTiXCLzMv4 Lee’s book "How to Talk to a Science Denier" is out now: https://geni.us/leemcintyre “Climate change is a hoax—and so is coronavirus.” “Vaccines are bad…
From The Royal Institution. Harry Cliff gives three reasons why we may never be able to probe the very first moments of our Universe. Get Harry’s book: https://geni.us/harrycliff Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the LHCb experiment, a huge particle detector buried 100 metres underground at CERN near…
From The Royal Institution. What information and stories work to keep people positive about the future, and how can climate professionals discuss their work in public without the ‘doom and gloom’? Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/bDYVmfiQsyo With so many headlines warning of impending climate doom, it’s tempting to think the situation is hopeless and nothing can…
From The Royal Institution. What is the evidence for and against dark matter? Sabine argues for the superfluidity of dark matter that allows for a suitable combination of dark matter and a modification of general relativity. Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/ZVD3K4DbxgY Explore more of Sabine’s ideas via her book: https://geni.us/HfbLg Or YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder For more…
From The Royal Institution. Why did Facebook platforms go offline on 4th October? #Shorts
From The Royal Institution. How do we know how the climate is changing? How can we assess the risk to our lives, homes, businesses and communities? And how are people mitigating those risks in their everyday jobs, from engineering to finance? Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/u3FNTi1Vdy8 This talk is part of our new series on the…
From The Royal Institution. The greatest technology we have ever discovered on our planet is the three-pound organ carried in the vault of the skull. The magic of the brain is not found in the parts it’s made of but in the way those parts unceasingly reweave themselves in an electric, living fabric. David’s book…
From The Royal Institution. Constructor theory holds promise for revolutionising the way fundamental physics is formulated and for providing essential tools to face existing technological challenges. Chiara’s book "The Science of Can and Can’t" is available now: https://geni.us/ChiaraMarletto Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/q9hCRLCLztI Physicist Chiara Marletto proposes a new way of thinking about laws of nature.…
From The Royal Institution. Join Ben Still as he deconstructs particle physics brick by brick on a journey through the creation of the standard model. Ben’s book: https://geni.us/X7Tggm Learn more on Ben Still’s channel: youtube.com/drbenstill Visit Ben Still’s website: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~still/wordpress/ Ben Still is a physicist, author, and educator. As a physicist he has worked on…
From The Royal Institution. Recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the experience of being human in the coming century. Dan’s book "The Secret Body" is available now: https://geni.us/I185Yg Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/SAzpyLLrEwQ We may soon be eating bespoke diets for our microbiome, taking drugs to improve our brains…
From The Royal Institution. The answers to everything, from how computers learn to play chess to how a democracy should choose its representatives, can be found in geometry. Jordan’s book "Shape" is available now: https://geni.us/ellenberg Watch the Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbiOKpOOBo Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg reveals the hidden geometry underneath some of the most important problems we face.…
From The Royal Institution. Often dubbed the ‘Father of the Nuclear Age’, Ernest Rutherford’s pioneering, and Nobel Award winning, discoveries in nuclear physics and radioactivity changed the way we see and understand the world forever. Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/pAkJGvSpcdA Join Robin Ince and Helen Czerski, with Jim Al-Khalili, Linda Cremonesi, Jon Butterworth and Sunayana Bhargava,…
From The Royal Institution. Ben Still shows how a handful of different building bricks and a few construction rules cooked up the chemical elements essential to life on Earth. Ben’s book: https://geni.us/X7Tggm Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/5GB6HH0O0Xo Learn more on Ben Still’s channel: youtube.com/drbenstill Visit Ben Still’s website: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~still/wordpress/ Ben Still is a physicist, author, and…
From The Royal Institution. All of the calorie counts you see on food today are wrong. Obesity researcher Giles Yeo shows why calories are not created equal. Giles’ newest book "Why Calories Don’t Count" is available now: https://geni.us/rjch7M Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/S5F0x1HZSBs Giles Yeo explores what your environment has to do with your bodyweight, the…
From The Royal Institution. How can we design simple and elegant intelligent materials, that may one day animate and improve themselves? Buy Skylar’s book: https://geni.us/3ORQAAE Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/C1liR2zeS4s Today’s researchers are designing materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. From furniture that builds itself and flat shoes that jump into…
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From The Royal Institution. What is it that makes supermassive black holes grow so big? For more Dr Becky, check out her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBecky/videos Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/UVkb-f5In8M When we think of black holes, we often think of them as endless hoovers, sucking up anything around them. In reality, it’s very difficult to grow…
From The Royal Institution. Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to support the popular notion that dreams are meaningful. Fifty years later, the discovery of REM sleep thoroughly discredited the notion. Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/SgdbguclqSk Mark’s latest book "The Hidden Spring" is available now: https://geni.us/CWaA As is his text book on the science of sleep:…
From The Royal Institution. Science is continually changing with new findings and discoveries. When people reject these findings, we end up in a position where we can’t make intelligent decisions about important matters. Get Naomi’s book: https://geni.us/LakARiC Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/RQ2_PlzSgcc Naomi Oreskes explores how the trustworthiness of scientific claims derives from the rigorous vetting…
From The Royal Institution. Our current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model, predicts equal numbers of electrons and muons, but the results showed fewer muons being produced than electrons. Is this just a cruel trick of the data, or could this be the first sign of a new force of nature? Watch the Q&A:…
From The Royal Institution. Neurobiologists and computer scientists are trying to discover how neural networks become a brain. Will nature give us the answer, or is it all up to an artificial intelligence to work it out? Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/DoTSICEUm90 Get Robin’s Book: https://geni.us/5wIuX0W Join Peter Robin Hiesinger as he explores if the biological…
From The Royal Institution. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. What do we do about it? Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/t2caS7MX7tk Get Christopher’s Book: https://geni.us/fELYS In this talk, Christopher E Mason argues we have a moral…