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Imagine... Science: Life Time

Learn how to live a healthier, sharper life using your body clock with Russell Foster.

Sunday 04 June 2023

£12

event

FREE EVENT

LIVESTREAMED EVENT

Prize Lecture

Carbon-based nanoelectronics: from simulations to applications

The Rising Star Africa Prize 2022 lecture given by Dr Khalil Tamersit.

Tuesday 27 June 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Prize Lecture

Communicating COVID-19 with Jonathan Van-Tam

Join us for the David Attenborough Award Lecture given by 2022 winner, Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam.

Wednesday 28 June 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Summer Science Exhibition 2023

04 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Galaxy Makers

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Cosmic flavour adventure

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Science Century

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

04 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Places of Science: North Lanarkshire Heritage Trust - To the Moon and back

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Have your say on space

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Stitching the Stars

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

AromAtom: discover the smell of space

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Summer Science Exhibition Lates

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Stitching the Stars

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

The Art of Space - Creative mini workshops with Jackie Burns

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Unlocking the secrets of dark matter using floating glass spheres

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

John Regan: The first black holes in the universe

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Andrew Pontzen: What is a simulation – and do we live in one?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Stephen Wilkins: A tale of two telescopes: JWST and Euclid

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Michele Dougherty: Exploring Jupiter and its icy moons: the JUICE Mission

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Katherine Joy: Space invaders: meteorite attack

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Jenny Carter: SMILE! Taking the first images of the Sun-Earth interaction

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

John Elliott: Preparing humanity for the discovery of extra-terrestrial life - The SETI Post Detection Hub

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Tuesday 04 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

1,000 Days: joining the dots in science for global child health

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Wednesday 05 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Do you have extra bones in your knee?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Wednesday 05 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Radicals!

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Wednesday 05 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Microbes that manage our waste

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Wednesday 05 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Helen Sharman on STEM careers and space travel

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

05 - 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

From bones to biomolecules: can the dead teach us anything?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

05 - 06 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Brain Build Up

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

06 - 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Could you be a dementia researcher?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

06 - 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Mining a sustainable future

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

06 - 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Beware: Floods Ahead!

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

06 - 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

What happens when there's too much water?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

06 - 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

The Great Ape Challenge

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

07 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Meat Your Persona

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

07 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Two eyed funfair

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Friday 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Healthy Ageing: Designing For our Future Selves

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Friday 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Ageing and the rise of the clones

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Friday 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Seeing with two eyes - a window into brain plasticity

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Friday 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Your Divided Brain

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Friday 07 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Nature Overheard: Tune in to your streets with the Natural History Museum

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Ageing Well: Past and Present Perspectives

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

National Geographic Explorers

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Kid’s zone: Little House of Science

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Places of Science: Ballycastle Museum - Marconi's Moyle...Radio Waves Across the Sea

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Sensing danger

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Britain’s Beastly Past

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Guided walk around St James’s Park

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Are You Hot or Not?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Places of Science: CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket - Cricket in a Warmer World

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Brickiversity

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Life on the edge: Mammals of the last Ice Age in Britain

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023.

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

The pangolin paradox: why are pangolins killed?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Cricket in a Warmer World

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Rising From the Ashes

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

How we make blood: a stem cell story

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Unravelling the Mysteries of Humpback Whale Songs: Exploring the Cultural Evolution of Non-Human Animals Across Oceans

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Using diamond to fight fungus in Space?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

08 - 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Haulout

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Saturday 08 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

LIVESTREAMED EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Summer Science Live

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Sunday 09 July 2023

London

Free

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

The meat of the matter: can we choose to reduce our meat consumption?

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Sunday 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Cricket in a Warmer World

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2023. 

Sunday 09 July 2023

London

Free

event

FREE EVENT

Science And The Law

Science in the Interests of Justice

This meeting will bring together leading scientists and prominent members of the legal community from the UK and USA to explore approaches used by courts in their consideration, evaluation, and management of…

03 - 04 October 2023

Online

Free

event

FREE EVENT

LIVESTREAMED EVENT

Transforming Our Future

Advancing the science of human nutrition

This conference will explore how novel research in industry and academia is advancing our understanding of human nutrition.

Monday 04 December 2023

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Imagine... Science: Being Human - How Our Biology Shaped World History

Lewis Dartnell talks to Robin Ince.

Wednesday 31 May 2023

£12

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Imagine... Science: If The World Were 100 People

Journey around the planet with the author and illustrator of If the World Were 100 People.

Wednesday 31 May 2023

£12

event

PAST EVENT

International

Climate change and innovative paths towards a more sustainable future

International lecture given by Professor Steven Chu ForMemRS, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and former United States Secretary of Energy.

Tuesday 30 May 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Imagine... Science: Age Proof

Professor Rose Anne Kenny shares her research at the forefront of ageing medicine.

Sunday 28 May 2023

£12

event

PAST EVENT

Transforming Our Future

Sustainable fashion: transdisciplinary approaches to innovation

This event explored the role of science in reducing the environmental impact of the fashion industry.

Tuesday 23 May 2023

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Transforming Our Future

Sustainability in the research and innovation endeavour

This conference explored possibilities for enhancing the environmental sustainability of research and innovation activities in wet and dry laboratory environments across all scientific disciplines in both industry…

16 - 17 May 2023

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Tuberculosis control: the need for new tools

Africa Prize Lecture 2022 given by Professor Novel Njweipi Chegou.

Monday 15 May 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Remaking ourselves

Dr Philip Ball, winner of the 2022 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, joins us to discuss human genome editing, and the importance of keeping historical and cultural perspectives visible in these debates.

Thursday 11 May 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Computer vision: learning to see the world

Bakerian Prize Lecture 2023 given by Professor Andrew Zisserman

Wednesday 03 May 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

The making, keeping and losing of memory

Ferrier Prize Lecture 2022 given by Professor Richard Morris

Thursday 20 April 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

The story of my life

Croonian Prize Lecture 2023 given by Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser

Tuesday 18 April 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

Young People's Book Prize 2022 Award Ceremony

How do you build a skyscraper? Or say hello in Japanese? Can we farm insects, or eat microbes? What is rewilding? And what is Rosalind Franklin famous for?

Tuesday 07 March 2023

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Astronomy by Microscope

Join us for the Michael Faraday Prize Lecture given by 2022 winner Professor Monica M Grady.

Monday 06 March 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Conference

Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing

06 - 08 March 2023

London

Free Event

event

PAST EVENT

History Of Science

Challenging misinformation

Thursday 02 March 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

History Of Science

Royal Society lates: fakes, forgeries and misinformation

Thursday 02 March 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Transforming Our Future

Machine learning and AI in biological science, drug discovery and medicine

Wednesday 01 March 2023

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Henry Gee - A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth

Join the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee at the Northern Ireland Science Festival.

Friday 17 February 2023

Free Event

event

PAST EVENT

Places Of Science

Geometry is a number in space, music is a number in time

Leighton House brings back their Saturday Family Fun series with an exciting journey of practical discovery exploring music, art, geometry and sound.

Saturday 21 January 2023

London

£5

event

PAST EVENT

Places Of Science

Geometry is a number in space, music is a number in time

Leighton House brings back their Saturday Family Fun series with an exciting journey of practical discovery exploring music, art, geometry and sound.

Saturday 14 January 2023

London

£5

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

DNA graffiti: Mutation patterns in human cancer and how to use them in medicine

The Francis Crick Lecture 2022 given by Professor Serena Nik-Zainal.

Thursday 12 January 2023

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Places Of Science

Family fun: exploring music and creating sound at Leighton House

Leighton House brings back their Saturday Family Fun series with an exciting journey of practical discovery exploring music, art, geometry and sound. 

07 - 21 January 2023

London

£5

event

PAST EVENT

Places Of Science

Making instruments, pitch and volume

Leighton House brings back their Saturday Family Fun series with an exciting journey of practical discovery exploring music, art, geometry and sound.

Saturday 07 January 2023

London

£5

event

PAST EVENT

Online

Royal Society Science Book Prize award ceremony

Tuesday 29 November 2022

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

Philanthropy and leadership in a changing world - Science and Civilisation lecture 2022

The Science and Civilisation series has brought together a range of leading academics, writers, philosophers and other renowned public figures to discuss important questions relating to academic freedom.

Thursday 24 November 2022

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

How to outsmart a cereal killer

Join us for the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2022 given by Professor Diane Saunders.

Tuesday 22 November 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Technologies to think with

The Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture 2022 given by Professor Yvonne Rogers FRS.

Wednesday 16 November 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Data-driven materials discovery

Join us for the Clifford Paterson Lecture 2020 given by Professor Jacqui Cole.

Tuesday 01 November 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Scientific Meeting

A bicentenary tribute to Louis Pasteur, Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Friday 28 October 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Places Of Science

Our health heroes at Headstone Manor and Museum

Find out more about a lost cottage hospital through first-hand stories and collections.

25 October - 29 January 2023

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

History Of Science

African scientists in colonial and postcolonial contexts, 1800-2000

The story of African scientists in the 19th and 20th centuries, and how European science was shaped by colonial and postcolonial contexts.

Friday 21 October 2022

The Royal Society

£40/£20 students

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Funny, peculiar? The Science of Laughter

Join us for the Michael Faraday Prize Lecture 2021 given by Professor Sophie Scott.

Tuesday 11 October 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Party Conference

The Royal Society at the Conservative Party Conference 2022

The Royal Society, along with our national academy partners, the Academy of Medical Science, British Academy and Royal Academy of Engineering, will be hosting a stand in the exhibition hall at the Conservative Party…

02 - 05 October 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Party Conference

The Royal Society at the Labour Party Conference 2022

The Royal Society, along with our national academy partners, the Academy of Medical Science, British Academy and Royal Academy of Engineering, will be hosting a stand in the Exhibition Hall at Labour Party…

25 - 28 September 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Open House

POSTPONED - Open House 2022

With the news of the passing of Her Majesty the Queen, the Royal Society has taken the decision to postpone Open House 2022. Please do not arrive for the event as the building will not be open. 

17 - 18 September 2022

The Royal Society

Free Event

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

The politics of DNA

Join us for the Royal Society David Attenborough Award Lecture 2021 given by Dr Adam Rutherford.

Monday 05 September 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

History Of Science

Wolfson Foundation History Prize 50th Anniversary

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Wolfson History Prize, join the Royal Society and the Wolfson Foundation for a discussion on history and science, in partnership with BBC History Magazine.

Thursday 14 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Touch sensing in animals, humans and robots

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Sunday 10 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Street Science Busking

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Sunday 10 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Kids' Zone

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Sunday 10 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

A hard nut to crack: How diet shapes the squirrel skull

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Sunday 10 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Dr Zoo's Travelling Science Lab

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Sunday 10 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Stitch'n'stem

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Summer Science Exhibition Live

This online event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Street Science Busking

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Cyanotype making workshop

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Meet the plant scientists

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Guided Walk: Discover the hidden wildlife of St James’s Park

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Friends and foes in our ponds

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Kids' Zone

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Dr Zoo's Travelling Science Lab

This event is part of the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2022. 

Saturday 09 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Summer Science Exhibition 2022

The Summer Science Exhibition returns to central London!

06 - 10 July 2022

London

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Panel Discussion

Lessons from modelling the pandemic

Join the Royal Society as we reflect on the scientific and policy implications of modelling the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Monday 13 June 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

“A sex so little made to brave the thorns of science”: The historical representation of women in mathematics

From medieval times to the modern day, female mathematicians, real and fictional, have been represented in a variety of ways, both in pictures and in words. These depictions allow us to learn about the women…

Monday 06 June 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Imagine...Science: Thinking better - the art of the shortcut

Professor Marcus du Sautoy FRS talks to Dr Hannah Critchlow

Sunday 05 June 2022

£10

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Imagine...Science: Control - the dark history and troubling present of eugenics

Dr Adam Rutherford talks to Professor Veronica van Heyningen FRS

Thursday 02 June 2022

£12

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Imagine...Science: I Am a Book. I Am a Portal to the Universe.

Miriam Quick talks to Sharna Jackson 

Tuesday 31 May 2022

£6

event

PAST EVENT

Festival Event

Imagine...Science: Are astronauts extinct?

Lord Martin Rees FRS talks to Professor Catherine Heymans

Sunday 29 May 2022

£10

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

GREENBAT meets GREENCAT: towards delivering truly sustainable energy storage and conversion technologies

Kavli Medal and Lecture 2022 given by Professor Magda Titirici.

Thursday 05 May 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Visualising the molecules of life

The Leeuwenhoek Medal and Lecture 2022 given by Dr Sjors Scheres FRS.

Tuesday 26 April 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Conference

Aldabra Research Station 50th Anniversary Celebration Symposium at the Royal Society

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Aldabra research station, organised by the Royal Society and Seychelles Island Foundation.

Thursday 21 April 2022

The Royal Society

Free Event

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Nutrient sensing by the brain in health and disease

The Croonian Medal and Lecture 2022 given by Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FMedSci FRS and Professor Sadaf Farooqi FMedSci FRS.

Thursday 14 April 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Conference

Climate change: science, responses and research needs

Watch the Royal Society conference on the implications of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report for the UK and urgent policy and research needs. Day 1: www.youtube.com/2l9QPWWk_zQ Day 2: www.youtube.com/JVxWlVp5TzY

11 - 12 April 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

Can we bring animals back from extinction?

This panel brought together scientists from across the world to discuss the topic of de-extinction and how far the field of genetics has grown.

Wednesday 16 March 2022

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

Young People's Book Prize 2021 Awards Ceremony

Who invented vaccines? How do you read Morse code? Can we stop climate change? How big are a spider’s eyes? And an anteater’s tongue?

Tuesday 08 March 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

Looking Ahead to the Third Human Genome Editing Summit

In partnership with the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the US National Academies of Sciences and Medicine and The World Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society hosted a three-part series of online events looking…

07 - 09 March 2022

Online

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Quantum processors: making machines at the atomic-limit

The Bakerian Medal and Lecture 2022 given by Professor Michelle Simmons FRS.

Tuesday 01 March 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Space weather and implications for life on other worlds

Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2021 given by Dr Suzanne Imber.

Wednesday 09 February 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Exhibition

Stormy weather - from lore to science

This exhibition is a partnership between the Royal Society collections and the National Meteorological Library and Archive.

31 January - 30 April 2022

The Royal Society

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

You and the planet: Tomorrow's Earth

Submit your questions for the panel or go to slido.com and enter code #T271. What is your vision for Tomorrow’s Earth? Whether you imagine flying cars, robot companions or materials that think for themselves, we can…

Thursday 27 January 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

The Online Information Environment: Professor Melissa Terras in conversation with Dr Vint Cerf ForMemRS

Wednesday 19 January 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Nanoengineered seaweed for scarless skin regeneration

The Royal Society Rising Star Africa Prize 2021 given by Dr Nowsheen Goonoo.

Thursday 06 January 2022

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Online

Voices from the Syrian Academic Community

06 - 10 December 2021

Free

event

PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Fighting diseases with cross-species vaccination

Thursday 02 December 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Online

Stories from Science City

Join curators and other experts as they share stories of the people, places, objects and ideas that reveal how science shaped London, and London shaped science.

Wednesday 01 December 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize award ceremony

 

Monday 29 November 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Hubble's legacy: A journey into the Universe

Wednesday 24 November 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Online

Celebrating the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis

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Thursday 18 November 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Probabilistic Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Wednesday 10 November 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Cop26

Climate change and health at COP26

Climate action to protect and promote health: sharing knowledge among regions to focus on solutions

Wednesday 10 November 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Cop26

Ask big questions about climate change at COP26

Drop into the Royal Society’s exhibit at Glasgow Science Centre and join live virtual Q&As with some of the leading scientists on the frontline in the battle against climate change and biodiversity loss.

Saturday 06 November 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Cop26

Meet the climate scientists of tomorrow at COP26

Drop into the Royal Society’s exhibit at Glasgow Science Centre and join live Q&As with some of the inspirational young people that are taking action to save our planet through science. 

Friday 05 November 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Panel Discussion

Living with COVID-19: When a pandemic becomes endemic

When does a pandemic become endemic? 

Wednesday 03 November 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Mathematics, Pandemics and Us

 

Tuesday 26 October 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Online

Academic freedom: right or privilege? - Science and Civilisation lecture 2021

Monday 25 October 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Poxvirus research after smallpox eradication: new findings with an old vaccine

Thursday 07 October 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Party Conference

Conservative Party Conference: Becoming a “science superpower”: will the UK be fit to tackle the next global crisis?

Tuesday 05 October 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Party Conference

Conservative Party Conference: Preparing for future challenges: how can Government best use science?

Tuesday 05 October 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Party Conference

Labour Party Conference: Becoming a “science superpower”: will the UK be fit to tackle the next global crisis?

Monday 27 September 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Party Conference

Labour Party Conference: Preparing for future challenges: how can Government best use science?

Monday 27 September 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

A.C. Grayling: Learning from the Age of Genius

The Age of Genius explores the intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell the story of the 17th century in Europe. Its author, Professor A.C. Grayling, joins us to discuss that story.  

Wednesday 22 September 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Party Conference

Liberal Democrat Party Conference: Becoming a “science superpower”: will the UK be fit to tackle the next global crisis?

Friday 17 September 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Online

Has there ever been life on Mars?

This event was part of the Royal Society's post Summer Science series of events. To explore more of the Summer Science on demand programme explore the interactive hub, catch up on the Royal Society's YouTube…

Wednesday 15 September 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Open House

Open House

The Royal Society opens its doors online with an exciting range of digital content over Open House Festival 2021.

04 - 12 September 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

London: Science City 2021

Science City 1550 - 1800: The Linbury Gallery tells the story of how London grew to become a global hub for scientific and technological innovation, but where does it stand in 2021?

Wednesday 25 August 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Engineering ExoMars

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase. 

Sunday 11 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Going wild: Why do captive animals need their wild behaviours?

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Sunday 11 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Weirdology

This event is part of the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Sunday 11 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

BO and beyond

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Sunday 11 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Extinction: Evolution's Partner in Crime?

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Saturday 10 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Would you trust a robot surgeon?

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Saturday 10 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Monte-Carlo simulation and The Pirates of the Caribbean

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Saturday 10 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Maddie and Greg take over Summer Science

This event is part of the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Saturday 10 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Mining for a sustainable future

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Saturday 10 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Weekend workshops

10 - 11 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

In and under the skin

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Friday 09 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Detecting landmines for a safer world

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society's 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Friday 09 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Inspiring intergenerational connections post COVID-19

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Friday 09 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

What happens when there's too much water?

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Friday 09 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Stories from the frontier of Earth observation

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Friday 09 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Mapping tumours

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Ancestors with Professor Alice Roberts

Join author, academic and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts as she journeys through time to uncover the lost stories of our prehistoric ancestors - written in stone, pottery, metal and bone.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Eagle inspired engineering

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

The life and death of galaxies

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

What a waste

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase. 

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

The rapidly changing world of neural interfaces

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Beauty quarks behaving badly

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Air pollution: can you catch a gas?

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

How has Hubble transformed our view of the distant Universe?

This event is part of a series of lightning lectures for the Royal Society’s 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Thursday 08 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

History of Science’s Summer Science Showcase

Taking mother nature as our inspiration for Summer Science this year, join us straight from the Royal Society’s archives as we journey through the microscopic discoveries of both sea and land to the giants of the…

08 July - 31 August 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Summer Science on demand

08 July - 31 August 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

How to print your ‘wonder pill’?

This event is part of our Summer Science 2021 launch on Wednesday 7 July. A special evening featuring the return of our family friendly Big Summer Science quiz and lightning lecture sessions with some of our…

Wednesday 07 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Big Summer Science quiz

This event is part of the Royal Society's 2021 Summer Science digital showcase.

Wednesday 07 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

What is a bee’s favourite flower, and why should we care?

This event is part of our Summer Science 2021 launch on Wednesday 7 July. A special evening featuring the return of our family friendly Big Summer Science quiz and lightning lecture sessions with some of our…

Wednesday 07 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Summer Science Exhibition

Summer Science launch evening

Our Summer Science 2021 will be launching this July with a special evening on Wednesday 7 July featuring the return of our family friendly Big Summer Science quiz and lightning lecture sessions with some of our…

Wednesday 07 July 2021

free

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PAST EVENT

Online

The role of African scientists in feeding the continent

Royal Society Africa Prize Lecture 2020 with Dr Steven Runo

Monday 05 July 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Transforming Our Future

Sustainable packaging: protecting products and the planet

This Royal Society symposium brought together key stakeholders from across the packaging industry to highlight the cutting-edge technologies that are making packaging more sustainable. 

Friday 02 July 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Online

Everything in motion: How our brains learn to control our bodies

Ferrier Lecture 2021 given by Professor Daniel Wolpert FMedSci FRS

Thursday 17 June 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

The Art of Data

Fact-based data are powerful tools to combat fake news and misinformation. But how many of us really understand the significance of voter polls, probability or the COVID dashboard? 

Sunday 13 June 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Online

Gaia Vince, Jim Al-Khalili and Camilla Pang in conversation at Hay Festival

Understanding ourselves and the world around us are arguably the biggest tasks of being human. Science writers can demystify who we are, where we have come from, and where we might be heading.

Saturday 05 June 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Prize Lecture

Brain mechanisms of addictive behaviour

The Croonian Lecture 2021 delivered by Professor Barry Everitt FMedSci FRS.

Thursday 27 May 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

What is (Quantum) Life?

In this ‘in-conversation’ style event, Professor Jim Al-Khalili speaks to geneticist, author, and BBC presenter Dr Adam Rutherford, about his work into the origins of quantum biology as a 21st century science and…

Thursday 20 May 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Vaccines: a double dose

Join Professor Brian Cox and our panel of experts as they revisit the landscape of vaccines and what matters now as the world continues to face COVID-19.

Thursday 06 May 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

You and the planet: oceans

There are plenty of fish in the sea, or so the saying goes. But for how much longer? With increasing overfishing, growing amounts of pollution and global temperatures rising, our ocean and its ecosystems are under…

Thursday 29 April 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Fast Radio Bursts

Bakerian Lecture 2021 delivered by Professor Victoria Kaspi CC FRS

Tuesday 27 April 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Long Covid: an unfolding story

 

Thursday 08 April 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

No series available.

Computers and Computer People, 1950s-1990s

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Tuesday 16 March 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Celebrating science with the Young People's Book Prize

Why is the world round? Who discovered antibiotics by accident? What makes my tummy gurgle? Where does my favourite chocolate come from? 

Friday 12 March 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Building the future: animate materials

What could a future with animate materials look like? Imagine a future where roads can self-heal, tiny robotic molecules can assemble themselves into household objects, and living buildings can harvest carbon…

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Free

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PAST EVENT

Online

Day 4 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Friday 26 February 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Day 3 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Thursday 25 February 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Day 2 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Wednesday 24 February 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Day 1 highlights - 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference: Science for a resilient future

Tuesday 23 February 2021

Free Event

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PAST EVENT

Online

Explaining Humans with Dr Camilla Pang

What science can teach us about life, love and relationships. How do we understand the people around us? How do we recognise people's motivations, their behaviour, or even their facial expressions? And, when do we…

Monday 22 February 2021

Free