Whether it’s the bizarre truth about the animal kingdom or the delightful and dangerous fluids you encounter every day, scientific research can lead us to some unexpected places.
Whether it’s the bizarre truth about the animal kingdom or the delightful and dangerous fluids you encounter every day, scientific research can lead us to some unexpected places.
Join Roger Highfield, Science Director at the Science Museum, as he profiles two extraordinary books shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize: Lucy Cooke’s The Unexpected Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife and Mark Miodownik’s Liquid: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives.
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Festival event
Friday 24 May 2019
Explore the incredible abilities of our immune system and find out why the teenager in your life is so ready to take a risk.
Festival event
Saturday 25 May 2019
Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, the President of the Royal Society and Nobel Prize-winning chemist, in conversation with Adam Rutherford, the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science, about his book The Gene Machine: The race to decipher the secrets of the ribosome.
Festival event
Monday 27 May 2019
Royal Society Research Fellows Adi Kliot, Aquila Mavalankar, and Jackie Rosette discuss the next big thing.
Festival event
Saturday 01 June 2019
Get your time machines at the ready and go on a journey to the prehistoric age with Anne Rooney, author of Dinosaur Atlas.