The 2022 Christmas Lectures with forensic anthropologist Sue Black start TONIGHT. We cannot contain our excitement! 🙌 In lecture one we'll look at what clues are hidden in our bodies, and how investigators can uncover a host of information about someone from the smallest fragment of their remains. Tune in to BBC Four and iPlayer at 8pm! | Royal Institution of Great Britain

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🥚 Christmas Lectures iconic object no. 2 - from 2022 with Sue Black We hard-boiled two ostrich eggs to shoot them with a BB gun, to demonstrate bullet wounds on skulls. It took two hours to hard boil them, and we ended up dyeing one green for contrast on-camera, which made it look rather like a cassowary egg. Again, it was an ostrich egg. We'd do anything for science – but not get anywhere near a cassowary. 📺 The 2024 Christmas Lectures will be on BBC Four and iPlayer 29, 30 and 31 December |

🎧 New podcast episode 🎧 Our 2025 Christmas Lecturer, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, joins us on the podcast to explore the fascinating history of space imaging and her extensive experience in the scientific world. Listen here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/ri-science-podcast/episodes/Tripping-the-light-fantastic-Space-science-and-200-years-of-the-CHRISTMAS-LECTURES---with-Dame-Dr-Maggie-Aderin-Pocock-e3bffsd/a-acb04ob | Royal Institution of Great Britain

88K views · 1.1K reactions | A Christmas Lecturer's favourite Christmas Lectures  We sat down with 1987 lecturer David Phillips to reminisce on his time here at the Ri, walking in the footsteps of Michael Faraday and joining him in the history books. Watch the full interview: youtube.com/watch?v=hu0ATx1OLfo | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Facebook

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