Biology and the human body

How do Medicine and Physics Overlap? - with Rohin Francis and Sabine Hossenfelder

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder and cardiologist Rohin Francis discuss the spaces where their fields of study overlap.

Climate

Christmas Lectures 2020: Up in the Air - with Tara Shine

In the third lecture of the 2020 Christmas Lectures, environmental scientist Tara Shine demonstrates how Earth produces a never

Climate

Christmas Lectures 2020: Water World - with Helen Czerski

In the second lecture of the 2020 Christmas Lectures, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski unpicks the Earth’s heating and

Brain

Changing Consciousness with Psychoactive Plants - with Michael Pollan and Jules Evans

Humans have changed their consciousness with plants for millennia; from the legally and socially acceptable consumption of

Climate

Christmas Lectures 2020: Engine Earth - with Chris Jackson

In the first lecture of the 2020 Christmas Lectures, geologist Chris Jackson shows us how the planet’s oldest rocks and fossils

Physics

What Does it Take to Make a Universe? - with Harry Cliff

What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will

Lessons from Plants - with Beronda Montgomery

Beronda Montgomery explores how plants are masters of adaption and experience sensations that don’t require eyes or ears.

Art, culture and society

How to Talk to a Science Denier - with Lee McIntyre

Many people reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. Lee McIntyre argues that anyone can and should fight back

Physics

Is Dark Matter Real? - with Sabine Hossenfelder

What is the evidence for and against dark matter? Sabine argues for the superfluidity of dark matter that allows for a suitable

Biology and the human body

What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology? - with Dan Davis

Recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the experience of being human in the