The Royal Institution
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The Royal Institution is a 200 year old independent charity creating opportunities for the public and scientists to explore science together, through events, education, and the CHRISTMAS LECTURES.
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Filming for the 2025 Christmas Lectures with Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock begins today at the Ri! Our knitted Michael Faraday is keeping watch from the top of the Roundel Room Christmas tree, and if you look carefully, you’ll spot our Gold YouTube Creator Award for 1m subscribers in the background. The lectures will be on YouTube on Sunday 28th December at 19:00 GMT - watch out for the Premiere coming soon!
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Are we alone in the universe? This is one of the oldest and most primal questions of humankind. Our latest talk, with Cambridge Professor of Astrophysics Nikku Madhusudhan, explores the question of whether life might be found elsewhere. Sign up as a Science Supporter member to watch it now, ad-free, or wait until Tuesday when we'll publish it for everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBdkh...
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The Ri are excited to share a brand new lecture by Geoffrey Hinton, the 'Godfather of AI', about whether articial intelligence can ever surpass human intelligence. https://youtu.be/7EtOfCmlxrA
🎥 Science Supporters (our YouTube Members) get early access — watch it now, completely ad-free, one week before it goes public. If you want to be the first to see it, hit Join and become a member today. youtube.com/channel/UCYeF244yNGuFefuFKqxIAXw/join
📸 See behind-the-scenes photos from both the lecture and the filming of an Ri exclusive video, where Geoffrey answers questions about the future of AI.
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A brilliant mathematician, exceptional lecturer, prodigious polymath and deep-thinking leader and administrator, Christopher Zeeman had a remarkable influence on British mathematics. Our Science Supporters now have exclusive early access to his 1978 Christmas Lectures: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
Explore catastrophe theory, topology, complex mathematics and more, in one of our most influential archive lecture series.
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This year marks 200 years of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures — a world famous series showcasing science, curiosity, and mind-blowing demos, and started by the legendary Michael Faraday himself.
To celebrate, we're unlocking the archive. Every Saturday, we’ll upload a classic lecture to our YouTube channel — some not seen since they aired on TV, including last week's 1972 series on radio communications by Geoffrey Gouriet (watch that here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list...)
📺 Watch history come alive.
👀 Our Science Supporter members get early, ad-free access to each week's lectures
Subscribe, hit the bell, and get ready for some serious science nostalgia!
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Here's Richard Dawkins as you've never seen him before - presenting his 1991 Christmas Lectures on the topic of "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe". Combining beautiful writing with a range of illuminating demonstrations, the series features a variety of wildlife, a virtual reality Lecture Theatre, and special guests - including the late Douglas Adams reading an excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
They're the latest archive lectures that we're publishing on our channel, and as usual our Science Supporters get an exclusive, ad-free preview. Join now to watch the lectures here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list... or wait until the end of November when we'll be releasing them for everyone.
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Did you know that David Attenborough gave a series of Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution in 1973?. These newly remastered lectures, about how animals communicate, were some of the last to be delivered totally live on the BBC, which we think you can tell by the very real reactions from the animals and children featured! We're giving our YouTube members an exclusive early look at them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list... so if you'd like to see them first and ad-free, sign up as a Science Supporter now. Otherwise we'll be putting them live in a week's time for everyone to watch.
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