From Michael Faraday to David Attenborough plus adorable lemur – many eminent figures have delivered Christmas science lectures at the UK’s Royal Institution. The organisation has put on 180 series of ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage Matin Durrani looks back at a week-long series of events organized by the Institute of Physics in the UK to mark the ...

IN this book Sir James Jeans makes available to a wider public the admirable lectures which last Christmas he delivered at the Royal Institution to an audience varying in age from eight to eighty; ...