The Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI, are starting TONIGHT! We couldn't wait either, so here is a little sneak peek of what's to come... 🎁 Tune in at 7.00pm on BBC Four and iPlayer to follow Maggie Aderin-Pocock on a fantastic voyage through space, searching for evidence of alien life. | Royal Institution of Great Britain

Don't miss the final of the 2024 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI! Tonight, Chris van Tulleken will analyse how our diets have changed through history, and how global food systems affect our health and our planet. Tune in to BBC Four and iPlayer at 9pm! | Royal Institution of Great Britain

🕯️ Christmas Lectures iconic object no. 4 – from various lectures in the 1800s, with Michael Faraday This is Michael Faraday's candle holder, used when delivering the popular lecture series "A Chemical History of a Candle" in the mid-1800s, which helped audiences step into the world of science through a familiar household object. The lectures were later published as a book, in which Faraday wrote: "There is not a law under which any part of this universe is governed which does not come into pla

The countdown begins 🚀 Set your reminders for the 2025 Christmas Lectures, supported by CGI: 28, 29 and 30 December at 7.00pm on BBC Four and iPlayer. Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock will take us on a whistle-stop tour of the Universe, searching for evidence of extra-terrestrial life. Learn more about the series: rigb.org/christmas-lectures Thanks to all our Christmas Lectures supporters: CGI as title partner, Aberdeen Group plc as supporting partner and UK Research and Innovation and Vias

At this festive time of year, BBC Archive brings you the ghost of Christmas Lectures past. Go science! This year's lectures end today. | BBC Archive

This was the best TV entrance of 2021. Don't bother looking for a worthy contender, we checked. The #XmasLectures with Jonathan Van-Tam are on our website and available around the world! 🦠 Watch here: rigb.org/christmas-lectures | Royal Institution of Great Britain

What happens when you come face to face with a super recogniser, someone who has an excellent ability to remember faces? Learn more about how people can be identified - watch the Christmas Lectures with forensic anthropologist Sue Black: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00pmbqq/royal-institution-christmas-lectures | Royal Institution of Great Britain

A lesson from WWII planes reveals how to spot what really matters. Applied to genetics, it shows which parts of our genome were critical to evolution. 🧬 Watch the 2018 Christmas Lectures with Aoife McLysaght and Alice Roberts: rigb.org/explore-science/explore/video/who-am-i-where-do-i-come-2018 | Royal Institution of Great Britain