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  1. Brain Development and Brain Repair: Molecules and Mechanisms That Control Neuronal (2007)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences; Psychiatry

    Video recording of the Royal Society’s 2007 Ferrier Lecture given by Dr Marc Tessier-Lavigne. The pattern of connections among nerve cells in the brain is highly precise, and arises during embryonic and...

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  2. The Uses of Infinity: A Philosopher Looks at Emergent Phenomena in Physics (2007)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Physics; Science

    Audio recording of the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture given by philosopher Dr Jeremy Butterfield on emergent phenomena at the Royal Society on 7/11/2007. Emergence, and its contrary reduction, are...

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  3. Steve Jones: Why Creationism is Wrong and Evolution is Right (2006)

    Subject
    Biology; Religious studies

    A streamed video recording of a public lecture given by Steve Jones at the Royal Society. Science is about disbelief. It accepts that all knowledge is provisional and that any theory might in principle be...

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  4. Salvador Moncada: Adventures in Vascular Biology (2005)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences

    A recording of The Croonian Lecture by Professor Salvador Moncada FRS of the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, delivered at the Royal Society on 10 May 2005 at 6:00pm. Thirty years ago it was...

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  5. David Attenborough: Perception, Deception and Reality (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies; Science

    A recording of the Michael Faraday Lecture delivered by David Attenborough at the Royal Society on 28 January 2004. Once, technical inadequacies led natural history film-makers to distort events or even...

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  6. Julie Ahringer: Genes, Worms and the New Genetics (2004)

    Subject
    Biology

    A recording of the Francis Crick Lecture delivered by Julie Ahringer at the Royal Society on 24 November 2004. Over the past 20 years it has been discovered that all animals have many of the same genes and...

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  7. John D Barrow: Not Just About Numbers (2004)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    A recording of a public lecture delivered by John D. Barrow at the Royal Society on 19 October 2004. What is mathematics and why does it work? In this talk John Barrow takes a look at some of the ways in...

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  8. George Ellis: Science, Complexity and the Nature of Existence (2004)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Physics

    A recording of a public lecture by George Ellis of the University of Cape Town and winner of the 2004 Templeton Prize, delivered at the Royal Society on 9 December 2004. The complexity of life and the human...

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  9. Thebe Medupe: Cosmic Africa (2004)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Astronomy

    A recording of a public lecture exploring Africa’s ancient astronomical history.given by Thebe Medupe of the South African Astronomical Observatory at the Royal Society By shedding new light on...

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  10. Wilson Sibbett: Optical Science in the Fast Lanet (2004)

    Subject
    Physics

    A recording of a public lecture delivered by Thebe Medupe Wilson Sibbett the Royal Society. Some lasers can be operated to produce optical impulses that last for just a few billionths of a microsecond. In...

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