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Why did thousands of turkeys drop dead across England in 1961? Why is eating peanut butter on a stick of celery better for you than spreading it on toast? This podcast answers both questions by investigating...
Professor Essi Viding, winner of the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture, explains why some people develop psychopathy and whether it can it be prevented. Psychopathy has long captured the public...
Volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather, winner of the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture, explores some of the different types of volcanic activity that we see on Earth today and have seen over our...
A useful overview of the chemical compound Uranium Dioxide, including its history, production and application in industry and art.
Can we imagine a piece of fabric that can be tapped or swiped just like you would a touch screen? Or if sensors woven into the cover of your chair told you when you were slouching? Electronic textiles are...
Audio podcast from Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Michael Freemantle explains the history of diethyl ether including its use in the First World War as an anaesthetic. [7...
Podcast in which Lars Öhrström reveals the hidden chemistry inside modern mobile phones and the reason why current models are so much slimmer than the brick-sized models from the 1980s. Tantalum Pentoxide...
Video recording of the 2012 Leeuwenhoek Lecture given at the Royal Society on 13 February 2012 by Dr Brad Amos. There are two rules for making an optical microscope: the lenses must be small, since defects...
Video of a lecture given at an event entitled ‘Spotlight on: infectious diseases’ held on 10/2/2012 at the Royal Society of Medicine. Dr Cunnington discusses the hidden burden of malaria, an area that...
Video recording of the Francis Crick Lecture given at the Royal Society on 7 December 2011 by Dr Simon Boulton from Cancer Research UK. DNA, also known as the ‘blue print’ of life, encodes the...
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