From Michael Faraday to David Attenborough plus adorable lemur – many eminent figures have delivered Christmas science lectures at the UK's Royal Institution. The organisation has put on 180 ...

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Ai-Da robot, the face of Artificial Intelligence in the UK, is to take part in the 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution (Ri) alongside Mike Wooldridge, Professor of Artificial ...

Last night's special edition of Mooney Goes Wild is coming from the Royal Institution of Great Britain ahead of the broadcast on BBC 4 of their famous Christmas Lectures series.

A university is to hold lectures aimed at children, looking at work behind the scenes of festive movies. The University of East Anglia (UEA) will host the talks, exploring what goes into special ...

Theatrical flashes and bangs ensure the popularity of the Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution and the BBC. But these public science lectures began long before television, when even ...

For Marmery, the Christmas lectures are a year-round task. He knows, broadly, by March or April, what the topic might be, but the lectures, and therefore the props, are not finalised until September.

Dickens was familiar with the popular lectures of British scientist Michael Faraday, who made many important contributions to the study of electricity and magnetism.

Professor Danielle George presented the demonstration packed, three-part Christmas Lecture series at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on BBC FOUR this Christmas. As part of the event, titled ...

I don’t need to hear the sanctimonious lectures of Senator Kyl and DeMint to remind me of what Christmas means. . . . [S]ome of my Republican colleagues have the nerve to whine about having to ...

A university is to hold lectures aimed at children, looking at work behind the scenes of festive movies. The University of East Anglia (UEA) will host the talks, exploring what goes into special ...

THE Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution are to be given this year, starting on December 27, by Prof. Rankine. Prof. Rankine, who is president of the Physical Society, has carried out ...